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IT Failures are Inevitable

As infrastructure stacks grow increasingly complex and involve an ever-growing number of services, system failures are becoming more and more common. There can be a variety of reasons why systems fail: software bugs, misconfiguration or interactions between services that cause unexpected behavior, the network is down, and of course, those rare occasions where natural events can render data centers inoperative.

Get planet-scale monitoring with Managed Service for Prometheus

Prometheus, the de facto standard for Kubernetes monitoring, works well for many basic deployments, but managing Prometheus infrastructure can become challenging at scale. As Kubernetes deployments continue to play a bigger role in enterprise IT, scaling Prometheus for a large number of metrics across a global footprint has become a pressing need for many organizations.

How is Automation Solving Enterprise Challenges Today?

Nearly two-thirds of IT executives say they plan to implement automation technology within the next year and a half. Despite this ambitious goal, however, 50% of those IT leaders admit that a lack of automation skillsets is currently hindering their progress. As the demand on IT infrastructures continues to grow at an astronomical rate, an epic increase in complexity has inevitably followed.

Logz.io Moves to Embrace OpenSearch at the Core of its Platform

As Logz.io prepares to hold its annual ScaleUP user conference tomorrow, celebrating another amazing year of customer success and continued advancement of our observability platform, we’ve got exciting news to share about our involvement with the OpenSearch project.

I've Been Everywhere, and the Risks it Can Bring to your Workplace

The song “I’ve Been Everywhere” was written by an Australian country singer, Geoff Mack, back in 1959, where he sang about all the towns he visited across Australia. It became famous in the US in 1962 by the country singer Hank Snow where the song hit number one. He of course did make some changes as the names of the towns were now all based in the US. And since then, many versions have been created. You will by now be wondering what has this to do with an Ivanti blog?

Understanding AWS EC2 Billing: Ways To Optimize Your Costs

EC2 instances come with a spider web of charges — when you take a look at your bill, you’ll see there are hundreds of unique line items connected to your usage. In addition to the instance, you’re also billed for storage, data transfer, and networking associated with that instance. It’s important to fully understand those charges so you can find ways to optimize your costs.

Real Time eCommerce Analytics: The Only Solution for the Holiday Season

Digital trade and eCommerce companies are generating transactions in more significant quantities than ever before. In 2020, eCommerce sales made up 19% of all worldwide retail transactions, representing $26.7 trillion in revenue. The cornerstone of any eCommerce company is providing a seamless, reliable experience where customers can log into a clean interface, browse products, and make purchases quickly and on-demand. Increased digitization after the pandemic has only heightened the stakes.

How to Measure and Improve Your Serverless Application's Health

This article will cover how the health of your serverless application can be measured and improved. Technology and its implementation methodology evolve with time very rapidly. Cost efficiency and productivity are the key drivers of technological evolution these days. With the advent of the cloud, infrastructure costs have been brought down significantly. Serverless technology adds icing to the cake!