The Java Management Extensions (JMX) framework is a Java technology that includes tools for managing and monitoring applications, system objects, and service-oriented networks. The JMX framework is designed to simplify the management of local and remote Java applications. The JMX framework introduces the concept of MBeans for real-time management of applications, whereby resources are represented by objects called MBeans (Managed Beans).

Configuration Management and Change Tracking are well known key tenets of project management. Change tracking and controlled change ensure that there is a record of the state of a system and if issues arise the cause can be linked to effects. In this blog, I will use a real-world example to demonstrate the importance of configuration and change tracking when it comes to IT observability.

SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol. It is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behavior. Figure 1: How SNMP works SNMP exposes management data in the form of variables on the managed systems organized in a management information base (MIB), which describe the system status and configuration.

When applications suffer performance degradation often the root cause of the issue is a database problem. In this guide we’ll show you 7 ways to troubleshoot your Azure SQL database performance issues using metrics and insights from the eG Enterprise monitoring solution.

Should you leave the cloud? Is cloud migration reversing? Is cloud repatriation a growing trend? On-premises vs. Cloud – which is best? How do you futureproof your IT and protect your business through recession or uncertainty, whether that’s in Cloud or On-prem? Today’s article is about keeping your options open within the context of recent economic and technological trends.

Microsoft Azure Cloud offers broadly 3 different options to deploy SQL on Azure: Choosing the right Azure deployment option for you depends on your requirements and the level of effort you want to put into managing your SQL server.

A new era is here, where cloud computing is taking a growing share of the digital workspace market. Microsoft are well placed to capture an increasing part of this market to deliver digital workspaces to end users to run their business applications. Using Azure as the umbrella we see new Microsoft services arise each year. Last year the Windows 365 service was born with a Cloud PC service offering both Business and Enterprise subscriptions.

In today’s article, I will be highlighting eG Enterprise’s monitoring capabilities for Amazon’s AWS NICE DCV VDI protocol that was used first in Amazon’s AppStream 2.0 and now subsequently also in WSP 2.0 for the Amazon WorkSpaces service for digital workspaces.

For several decades, IT monitoring has been deployed in different forms. The focus of IT monitoring has been to gather metrics about the operations of an IT infrastructure’s hardware and software assets to ensure that all the key functions are being performed as expected to support applications and IT services. In the recent past, the term Observability has been used as a synonym for “modern monitoring”.

If you have arrived at this page but need a quick refresher on what Azure Active Directory is and why it is different to Active Directory that you might have installed on-premises, you might like to first read this quick run-down – What is Azure Active Directory.