Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Why the Future of the Employee Experience at Work Hinges on IT

As the world enters the post-pandemic era, employers and IT teams face a variety of new challenges. Some should be high on the long-term priority list. Others need to be addressed immediately. Here’s a snapshot of what we’re facing: Addressing one or two of these challenges isn’t enough. Success for the Everywhere Workplace means IT navigating all these challenges – and more – simultaneously amid considerable uncertainty.

7 Best Mega Alternatives and Competitors: Pros, Cons, and Pricing

MEGA cloud storage launched in 2013 as a successor of a now-defunct file hosting service Megaupload. It quickly grew to a cloud storage behemoth by making itself stand out by good zero-knowledge and easy-to-use cloud storage equipped with end-to-end encryption. Like its predecessor Megaupload, MEGA is synonymous with internet culture and file storage for many users worldwide.

Automating deployment of a Dockerized Python app to Docker Hub

CI/CD systems follow a multi-tiered environments pattern: development, testing, staging, and production release are all part of this process. Each setting in this cycle could have a variety of set ups and configurations. As a result, having to set up separate configurations for different environments could be inconvenient and burdensome. In this tutorial, we will take a look at what Docker is and how it has freed developers from set-up problems and port clashes.

Retrace Power User Tips and Tricks - Extending APM

Retrace is the full lifecycle APM solution that includes tools and capabilities far beyond your typical APM tool. With sophisticated log management, detailed code tracing, deployment tracking and more, Retrace delivers what your DevOps team needs most to resolve issues before impacting users. By extending usability beyond traditional APM functionality, Retrace provides greater value than competitive products. But where would Retrace be without robust APM functionality?

Using the Density Function for Adaptive Thresholding with Splunk

It’s 3PM on a Friday, and your day is winding down. Suddenly, you get an urgent email from your boss asking you to set up an alert for monitoring volume. You consider this an easy task. You set a hard threshold for what you think is a low volume based on the last four hours of incoming data.

Time Series Forecasting Use Cases and Anomaly Detection

Wouldn’t it be great to peek into the future and find answers to the problems that you’re facing today? This may sound like science fiction, but many companies currently possess this capability, and they are creating strategies around it to strengthen their monitoring and analytical capabilities. One way is time series forecasting, a statistical method. You can take advantage of the insights of time series forecasting by using techniques like anomaly detection to gain.

Software License Monitoring: Keeping Costs Down Through Vigilance

Software license monitoring is often viewed as a preventative measure against compliance failures and subsequent penalties. However, if we take a look at the statistics, this notion might be brought into question. Some reports suggest that organizations stand to save a lot of resources with a robust software license management strategy. For instance, the global spending on enterprise software is expected to be around $US 672 billion, an 11% increase compared to the previous year.

Microservice Monitoring Tools + Best Practices

Microservices are one of the hottest app architectures in the current market. They easily solve some of the most common problems with monolithic and service-oriented architecture. The ability to split your application into multiple smaller components and develop as well as monitor them individually opens up a whole new world of possibilities. However, this also brings with it a new set of problems. Monitoring distributed applications requires thinking outside of the box.