Organizations are seeing measurable benefits from investing in observability, including faster issue resolution, cost reduction, and improved business outcomes. However, challenges still remain, including rising costs, tool fragmentation, and the need for more comprehensive monitoring of internet dependencies and user experience. Let’s explore these challenges and the best practices organizations are adopting to address them.

Ensuring scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness is a constant challenge for cloud-native log management and observability. At Sumo Logic, we faced this challenge head-on by transitioning from a stateful, Lucene-based architecture to a completely stateless, Parquet-based architecture. This transformation lets us improve data storage efficiency, streamline operational complexity, and meet the demands of an ever-increasing data scale.

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Kentik’s Cloud Latency Map, a public service that uses Kentik Synthetics to continuously measure latency between the regions of the biggest cloud providers.

Learn the best practices for IT incident communication via status pages, covering key aspects such as Defining incidents, Preparing communication plans, and Using various communication channels.

Remember when IT was mostly about managing a few on-premise servers and ensuring email worked? Those days are long gone. Today’s IT landscape is an intricate web of cloud services, legacy systems, automation, security protocols, and more. It’s a challenge to navigate, and as a result, IT operations have become increasingly complex. The more intricate your operation becomes, the more you realize that automation isn’t a luxury anymore—it’s a necessity.

At PagerDuty, we’re committed to delivering powerful updates that help you respond faster, work smarter, and deliver seamless customer experiences. As a fast follow to our recent launch, this quarter’s wrap-up blog highlights our latest product innovations and upcoming features—all designed to enhance your operational resilience and drive meaningful business outcomes by reducing risk and strengthening your ability to adapt and respond effectively.

.NET 9 is releasing in mid-November 2024. Like every.NET version, this introduces several important features and enhancements aligning developers with an ever-changing development ecosystem. In this blog series, I will explore critical updates in different areas of.NET. In this post, I'll look at two new LINQ methods: CountBy and AggregateBy.

As an InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated or Clustered user, you may want to inspect your cluster to gain a better understanding of the size of your databases, tables, partitions, and compaction status. InfluxDB stores this essential metadata in system tables (described in Section 1), which help inform decisions about cluster performance and maintenance.

There is no doubt about it: How you handle incident communication can make all the difference. Picture this: your organization experiences a major incident that disrupts services and affects users. Customers are anxious, internal teams are scrambling to resolve the issue, and the clock is ticking. This scenario underscores the importance of a solid incident communication plan.

Configuring a server can feel overwhelming, especially if you're new to IT infrastructure. However, understanding how to configure a server is essential for effectively managing any network, whether for a small business or a large enterprise. This guide equips you with the knowledge and steps to successfully set up your server, helping you navigate through the complexities of Server Management.