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The health of your systems and applications is fundamental for your organization’s infrastructure. Monitoring them indicates if there are any issues that need to be handled before they become serious and affect your customers. This is why companies often use a plethora of monitoring tools that can spot any irregularities as early as possible. Icinga allows you to monitor a lot of different metrics throughout your ecosystem, with various plugins that are ready-to-use.

In this blog, Divesh Gupta, VP of New Technology & Sales Operations at Console Connect, and Co-Chair of MEF’s Test & Certification Committee, shares his insights on the work Console Connect is doing behind-the-scenes to extend our automation capabilities to the network edge. Service providers across the world now find themselves at different stages of their automation journey.

Automated equipment management software can do multiple equipment management tasks with or without human intervention. Equipment management software is helpful to lots of organizations and their managers, especially maintenance managers as they must keep track of assets and their performance, maintenance, and lifecycle as well.

Since we were first parachuted into distributed work in 2020, most companies have now adopted a sustained hybrid workplace. According to a recent Gallup survey, there’s no reason to expect this to change anytime soon. Meanwhile, the last couple of years have simultaneously seen an explosion in the use of SaaS. In fact, 2020 was the first year in which the cloud market became larger than the non-cloud market, and SaaS was the leading cause of this.

A website's performance can be measured using metrics. Metrics provide information on what is working, what is not, and where improvements are needed. Unlike numbers, spreadsheets, or data, it isn't as complicated or as time-consuming to use. For observability in marketing, website metrics that measure user engagement are vital. By analyzing metrics, the marketing department will be able to determine what web pages are not providing the company with value.

PostgreSQL is the most powerful and versatile SQL database available today. There is a problem that comes with this level of power and versatility. How do the developers of PostgreSQL fine-tune the default configuration for everyone? Well, they can't do it. The issue is that each database differs not only in design but also in needs. Some systems are used to store massive amounts of data that are rarely searched.

Next to a large collection of checks, Oh Dear offers the ability to easily create beautiful status pages. This way, you can communicate the status of your sites and services to your users. Take a look at the Oh Dear powered status pages for Flare and Laravel. Today, we added the ability to view the status page as JSON (or XML if that is your thing). You just have to append /json (or /xml to the status page URL. So for the Laravel status page, you'll find the JSON at status.laravel.com/json.

Greetings friends, one and all! Over here on the Field Engineering team, we’re often asked about tracing. Two questions that come up frequently: Do I need to sample my traces? and How do I sample my traces? The folks asking are usually using tracing stores where it’s simply not possible to store all of the traces being generated. Those are great questions and the answers depend on a few different factors.

When it comes to your analytics tools, would you say they’re getting easier to manage overall, or is it increasingly difficult? Can you easily scale to meet new compliance requirements, or is there so much custom work required that the pace of change is too much for your team to handle? Do you feel in control over how and where your observability data flows, or do you feel beholden to your vendors? This blog post will shed light on how you can ease the strain on your downstream systems.