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As part of the Agile “family”, DevOps is often seen as strictly incompatible with any formal processes. Is there a place for ITIL in the post-DevOps world?

Local governments are the bedrock of communities, ensuring a city thrives as a great place to live. Delivering vital services, building and running infrastructure, and ensuring people have adequate access to essential and emergency services alike are some of the top priorities of local governments. In the continent nation of Australia, local governance is carried out through councils that form the third tier of the government and are led by elected officials on 3-4 year terms.

Considering moving from Open Source Puppet to Puppet Enterprise? Great! In this article, we'll cover typical use cases for the enterprise version of Puppet, why businesses that moved from Puppet's open source version to Puppet Enterprise made the switch, and how customers drive time to value with Puppet Enterprise faster than Open Source Puppet.

As modern IT infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, businesses generate massive amounts of logs compared to the past in real time. Therefore, streamlining this unstructured log data into a more structured form becomes vital with this growing complexity. Organizations must collect unstructured log data from various sources, extract meaning from them, and store them in a centralized repository. That’s where Log Aggregation comes in.

Complex modern applications rely heavily on observability, and metric monitoring is a crucial part of observability. The most common process of metric monitoring, which includes data scraping, processing, storage, and visualization, can be summarized in the diagram below: If an issue arises, for example, when users ask, “I have already recorded metrics in the application, why can’t I see my metrics on Grafana?”, how should we troubleshoot it?

You might have noticed that we released a series of AI-supported features last year. Intelligent alert grouping, developed to reduce alert fatigue, is the icing on the cake. ‍ With it, we combined all ilert AI features in a new powerful add-on that aims to reduce stress and give more clarity during IT incidents.

Microsoft Fabric is Microsoft’s new platform for all things data analytics—integrating key Azure data analysis products like Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, and Power BI into a unified platform. Fabric is intended to provide a one-stop shop where users with various levels of expertise across an organization can perform data analysis and collect insights.

Did you know that CFEngine can simply warn about something not being in the desired state? Traditionally with CFEngine, you define your desired state and CFEngine works towards making that happen. Sometimes you might not want CFEngine to take action and instead warn that a given promise wants to change something. Let’s take a look at a contrived example.

Website downtime refers to periods when a website is inaccessible or non-functional due to various issues. This can range from a few seconds to several hours or even days, depending on the severity of the problem and the efficiency of the recovery measures. During downtime, users cannot access the website's services or content, which can result in a loss of business and user trust.