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Confluent Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-hosted streaming data service. Enterprise customers use Confluent Cloud for real-time event streaming within cloud-scale applications. We’re excited to announce a new integration between Datadog and Confluent Cloud, which enables users to get deep visibility into their Confluent Cloud environment with just a few clicks. In this post, we’ll introduce how to set up the integration and start monitoring key metrics from your clusters.

Obkio announces a new Monitoring Agent operated by R2i, a leading Canadian provider of Cloud Computing Managed Services, Data Centre Solutions and Artificial Intelligence solutions. Learn how R2i’s new Obkio Monitoring Agent will allow them to offer their customers a complete network and cloud monitoring solution for fast support.

CloudFabrix solution provides a holistic approach for enterprises to implement proactive operations with the objective of eliminating/reducing critical incidents and improving customer satisfaction. The solution primarily relies on applying regression/forecasting models on any time-series data to detect and forecast anomalies. One of the unique features of the solution is the ability to convert unstructured data such as logs/incidents/alerts into time-series data to be used for running prediction models.

We talk a lot about MSP maturity, but I wanted to take the opportunity in this blog to really consider what that maturity actually looks like. For starters, I believe there are three key areas of excellence that currently define maturity in an MSP business: In all these areas, mature MSPs are constantly tweaking the dial and making ongoing investments.

Nowadays, staff in organizations are required to access multiple applications in their infrastructure. This can lead to the user having to manage multiple login credentials and passwords. There are many solutions available that provide a single sign-on (SSO) capability — such as Okta, LDAP, and Active Directory — which is becoming common practice across businesses.

IT experts agree that log management and monitoring is one of the most effective ways to keep IT infrastructure performing optimally. Logs play a vital role in improving performance, enhancing security, and detecting issues. But at the same time, a lot of people don’t use logs to the best of their ability. This guide will not only introduce you to log management but also reveal which logs to track and what information they are giving to you.

The Windows Event log is an essential tool for administrators to investigate and diagnose potential system issues, but it can also be a daunting task to gain real value and separate useful log entries from noisy non-essential activity. Depending on the level of logging that can be useful, Windows events can span system issues, application-specific issues, and also dive into security type issues around unauthorized access, login failures, and unusual behavior.

At Sentry, we’re always looking for innovative ways to dogfood our product. Over the last year we added Sentry’s error monitoring to our developer environment so that we could better understand the health of it. In this blog post I’m going to touch on how fragile local development environments can be, how we brought observability into what’s happening by introducing Sentry, and what outcomes it has driven for our engineering organization.

In this article, we’ll cover the three main challenges you may face when maintaining your own Prometheus LTS solution. In the beginning, Prometheus claimed that it wasn’t a long-term metrics storage, the expected outcome was that somebody would eventually create that long-term storage (LTS) for Prometheus metrics. Currently, there are several open-source projects to provide long-term storage (Prometheus LTS). These community projects are ahead of the rest: Cortex, Thanos, and M3.