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Why is the Application Slow? Prove It's NOT the Network!

The one complaint that an IT administrator dreads to receive is one where an end user says, “My application is slow!”. The application in question can be a web application, an enterprise application like SAP, Microsoft SharePoint, or a SaaS application like Salesforce or Office 365. Since the application is accessed over a network, it’s natural that the network team is pulled up first under the suspicion that it’s a network issue.

Budget Planning for Next-generation APM and Observability

If you’re trying to evaluate and understand the ROI of building an observability practice and carve out a budget for it, you’re not alone. You’ve probably got some monitoring and metrics capability already, but that’s proving to not be enough–how can you empower your teams as your environment becomes too complex for the basics? And how much will that cost?

Searching for Actionable Signals: A Closer Look at Time Series Data Anomaly Detection

Simple enough to be embedded in text as a sparkline, but able to speak volumes about your business, time series data is the basic input of Anodot’s automated anomaly detection system. This article begins our three-part series in which we take a closer look at the specific techniques Anodot uses to extract insights from your data.

What is Serverless and AWS Lambda?

Serverless computing is a cloud-based application architecture where the application’s infrastructure and support services layer is completely abstracted from the software layer. Any computer program needs hardware to run on, so serverless applications are not really “serverless” - they do run on servers - it’s just that the servers are not exposed as physical or virtual machines to the developer running the code.

GrooveHQ: Online Customer Support at its Best

Businesses all over the world, especially small ones, always struggle with support software. With limited resources, it becomes difficult for them to manage different types of emails and they end up with more work than they can handle. The lack of proper support software has many negatives with companies not being able to cope up with the entire workload. This is one of the main reasons why there is so much demand for online tools like Groove.

Monitoring SaaS Applications for Network Administrators

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a mainstream way of bringing enterprise applications to hundreds of thousands of application users at a stable cost. Rather than loading client software on a desktop PC, we lease software from the cloud, and monitor how the SaaS application is delivered. That makes it available to everyone in the enterprise.

Monitor MBTA service status and performance with Datadog

Data drives every decision we make at Datadog. That includes decisions about when to leave the office to catch the train! A few years ago, Datadog engineers created MTAServiceChecker.com to provide ourselves and our fellow New Yorkers with detailed insight into New York’s subway system, the MTA. For a recent Datadog hackathon, Chuck Hagenbuch and I, part of our growing engineering team here in Boston, created a version of the service checker for our local system, the MBTA.

SolarWinds Finds 70% of U.K. Tech Pros Need to Develop Skills to Confidently Manage Environments by 2024; Over 78% Lack Time to Train

SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2019: Skills for Tech Pros of Tomorrow examines confidence, current and future skillsets, career development, and barriers to career success. Tech pros still prioritize hybrid IT and security and look to develop deeper understanding in areas like AI and data science. According to more than 80 percent of tech pros, more training, time, and budget is needed to develop skills to manage environments in the next three to five years.