Another one in the history books: 2024 is (almost!) over. The OpenObservability Talks podcast, hosted by Dotan Horovits, recently featured a lively discussion with Charity Majors, Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, to reflect on the trends, achievements, and future of observability.

Monitoring is essential for enhancing the reliability, performance, and user experience of all software systems. IT operations can employ two key monitoring strategies to assess system health: black box and white box monitoring. This blog discusses both approaches and highlights how ManageEngine Site24x7, an AI-based IT observability platform, can assist organizations in adopting white box monitoring to improve IT operations.

Good decisions help leaders keep operations smooth and grow their business. With the right data at the right time, executives can solve problems quickly and take advantage of new opportunities. This blog will explore how StatusIQ helps executives make informed decisions by providing real-time data on system health, optimizing resource allocation, enhancing communication, and improving customer trust.

In this post, Doug Madory reviews the highlights of his wide-ranging internet analysis from the past year, which included covering the state of BGP (leaks and the state of RPKI adoption), submarine cables (both cuts), major outages, and how geopolitics has shaped the internet in 2024.

OpenTelemetry can be used to trace Rust applications for performance issues and bugs. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data. Telemetry data includes logs, metrics, and traces. Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency.

Nextjs is a production-ready React framework for building single-page web applications. It enables you to build fast and user-friendly static websites, as well as web applications using Reactjs. Using OpenTelemetry Nextjs libraries, you can set up end-to-end tracing for your Nextjs applications. Nextjs has its own monitoring feature, but it is only limited to measuring the metrics like core web vitals and real-time analytics of the application.

Nodejs is a popular Javascript runtime environment that executes Javascript code outside of a web browser. Express is the most popular web frameworks that sits on top of Nodejs and adds functionalities like middleware, routing, etc. to Nodejs. You can monitor your express application using OpenTelemetry and a tracing backend of your choice.

This whitepaper explores how proactive monitoring Microsoft Teams using the NiCE Active 365 Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager enhances collaboration and communication in IT environments. The whitepaper highlights the importance of monitoring critical metrics, such as call quality, user activity, and service performance, to ensure seamless operations.

As 2024 comes to a close, we at GripMatix are proud to reflect on an impactful year full of new solutions, updates, and enhancements for Citrix monitoring. With a focus on improving visibility, efficiency, and performance monitoring through Microsoft SCOM, we’ve delivered tools and features to address the evolving needs of Citrix administrators. Here’s a look back at what we achieved this year.

As a testament to its efficiency in network detection and security, Progress Flowmon emerged as a network detection and response (NDR) leader in the prestigious Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ SPARK Matrix. The SPARK Matrix recognizes solutions that demonstrate exceptional performance, innovation and customer satisfaction through specific criteria. The report provides an overview of NDR sector and can serve as a guide for IT teams seeking to deploy an effective NDR solution.