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4 billion logs, 120 TB of data: How Just Eat Takeaway.com uses Grafana Cloud to scale

In 2017, Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET) was transitioning from a scrappy startup to a surging scaleup. With a global customer base and workforce, the food delivery marketplace’s front line teams needed to scale the real-time monitoring of the platform. Their initial efforts looked like “NASA’s mission control with Grafana dashboards,” said Senior Technology Manager Alex Murray.

The Year of the Observability Pipeline

As we begin the new year, it is customary to reflect and identify areas we can continue to grow in 2023. Whether it’s joining the local gym, starting a new diet, or taking up a new hobby, this time is always full of promise to continually improve. The same can be said for digital businesses of every size and across every vertical. Macroeconomic trends have especially made this time one of reflection for a number of organizations.

The Reality of Machine Learning in Network Observability

For the last few years, the entire networking industry has focused on analytics and mining more and more information out of the network. This makes sense because of all the changes in networking over the last decade. Changes like network overlays, public cloud, applications delivered as a service, and containers mean we need to pay attention to much more diverse information out there.

How to Avoid Common Software Deployment Challenges

Software deployment is the manual or automated process of making software available to its intended users. It’s often the final—and most important—stage in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Software deployment is a three-stage process: All software deployments pose challenges, and issues can arise in any of the three stages.

The State of AIOps: A New Years' Message from Chief Moo Phil Tee

Well, that was fast! Another year has come and gone. It is safe to say 2020, ‘21 and ‘22 were exceptional, and only sometimes for good reasons. But I take heart in society’s steady progress toward digital maturity through it all. Nearly 100% of IT leaders say the pandemic accelerated their organization’s rate of digital transformation.

Is An APM Solution Worth The Investment?

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions are a crucial tool for modern software companies in 2023. They offer invaluable insights into application performance, including response times, error rates, and more. But are they worth the investment? In this article, we'll dive deep into the economics of application monitoring, including the costs, benefits, and potential ROI.

Cybersecurity Should be a Priority in Any Digital Transformation

Digital technologies have emerged as the most fundamental tools for the survival of businesses in the fiercely-competitive modern marketplace. Implementation of modern technologies helps achieve the most desirable business objectives. However, the adoption of innovations to facilitate digital transformation also brings cybersecurity challenges too.

Cron Job Monitoring Beta - Because scheduled jobs fail too

Do your cron jobs (aka scheduled jobs) ever fail or not run as expected? Scheduled jobs are supposed to be predictable – as the name implies. But as with many things, predictable!= reliable. Cron jobs fail too and we think you should know when that happens, Crons allows you to monitor the uptime and performance of any scheduled, recurring job in Sentry. Once set up, you’ll get alerts and metrics to help you solve errors, detect timeouts, and prevent disruptions to your service.

Best practices to prevent alert fatigue

As your environment changes, new trends can quickly make your existing monitoring less accurate. At the same time, building alerts after every new incident can turn a straightforward strategy into a convoluted one. Treating monitoring as a one-time or reactive effort can both result in alert fatigue. Alert fatigue occurs when an excessive number of alerts are generated by monitoring systems or when alerts are irrelevant or unhelpful, leading to a diminished ability to see critical issues.

ManageEngine named a 2022 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability

We are thrilled to announce that ManageEngine has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the 2022 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Application Performance Monitoring and Observability report for the fourth time in a row. “We believe this recognition is a testament to our customer-first mentality. For us, appreciation from our customers is one of the greatest compliments we can receive.