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In this blog, we will explore how distributed tracing works in Application Insights and how to use it to diagnose the issues in a distributed application. Azure Application Insights is a powerful tool for monitoring and diagnosing application performance issues and supports distributed tracing. It is an extension of Azure Monitor and provides Application Performance Monitoring features out of the box.

When thinking about your strategy around backups, recovery, availability, and business continuity, one part of the plan tends to fall by the wayside: backup retention. We focus so much on things like recovery objectives, SLAs, and tiers of data, that our thinking revolves around the need to potentially recover the backup that we just made a matter of minutes afterward. But there are data sets that need to be available weeks, months—even years—after they are made.

Cribl empowers you to take control of your observability, telemetry, and security data. Wherever your data originates from, wherever your data needs to go, and whatever format your data needs to be in, Cribl gives you the freedom and flexibility to make choices instead of compromises. Addressing visibility gaps by ingesting more data sources as the threat surface continues to expand has been a challenge.

IT support engineers rely on many specialized monitoring tools to detect infrastructure, application, and security problems. Once a monitoring tool detects a problem, it alerts must notify support to start incident response. Many complexities arise after the alert is sent. AlertOps offers many alert management features.

Microsoft SQL Server is a popular relational database management system that provides a wide range of performance and reliability features (e.g., AlwaysOn availability groups) to support business-critical applications. As your SQL Server workloads scale and increase in complexity, it can be difficult to monitor all of their components and pinpoint the exact issues that are degrading your databases’ performance.

ITSM and ITOM are two of the most critical concepts to understand when it comes to managing an IT department. Although both are related to IT management, there are key differences and similarities between the two that must be understood to maximize efficiency and ensure customer service. In this article, we will explain the key differences and similarities between ITSM and ITOM and how they should be used in tandem to ensure successful IT management.