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Getting Started with Icinga: Your All-in-One Guide to Mastering Monitoring

Whether you’re new to Icinga or a seasoned user who thinks they’ve seen it all, some of these resources could surprise you with a few tricks. Let’s dive into the resources that’ll have you saying, “Why didn’t I think of this sooner?” Or send this to someone you would like to rope into the Icinga universe.

6 Benefits of Remote Monitoring and Management for Your Clients' IT Infrastructure

Effective management of IT infrastructure is essential for any business looking to minimize interruptions, enhance system performance, and secure a competitive advantage. Among those benefiting from these tools are managed service providers (MSPs), who play a pivotal role in optimizing and securing IT infrastructures for a diverse clientele. In today's complex business landscape, managed service providers are crucial to achieving sustained operational efficiency and resilience in IT systems.
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AI Operations: Integrating Agentic AI for Seamless Workflow Automation

With agentic AI integrated, seamless workflow automation in IT operations is now achievable. By utilizing this advanced AI, organizations can achieve autonomous systems that respond in real-time and learn and adapt, creating operational efficiencies that reduce manual oversight. CloudFabrix, a provider of AI-driven IT solutions, leverages agentic AI to transform complex workflows, reduce manual workloads, and help organizations become more resilient and agile.

Grafana Cloud updates: redesigned dashboard filters, more ways to use RBAC, and more

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed them, here’s our monthly roundup of the latest and greatest Grafana Cloud updates. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.

Avoid Rate Limiting with Query Batching

This post is part of our debugging series, where we share tricky challenges and solutions while building Sentry. On March 4th, 2024, the most metal incident happened - INC-666 INC-666, in a nutshell, was where the issue alert rule post-processing step was flooded with more load than it could handle, and alerts that were supposed to have fired did not. This means that Sentry customers might not be receiving alerts if the query that would have triggered the alert is rate-limited.

Use the Telegraf Exec Plugin to Convert Data Formats

Converting multiple data formats into one unified format makes software and DevOps monitoring so much easier, as it brings together all types of metrics for a smoother, more consistent analysis. This approach cuts down on the need for separate parsing setups, saving time and reducing complexity when it comes to managing configurations. It’s also a big help for scaling up—your monitoring tools can handle growing volumes of data without constant adjustments.

Key Takeaways from the 2024 DORA Report

Google recently released its 2024 Cloud DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) report, bringing together a decade’s worth of trends, insights, and best practices on what drives high performance in software delivery across industries of all sizes. This year’s findings take a closer look at how DevOps teams can achieve greater resilience and efficiency by adopting AI, improving team well-being, and building powerful internal platforms. ‍

VictoriaMetrics Efficiently Simplifies Log Complexity with VictoriaLogs

Salt Lake City, Utah, 13th November 2024 – Today we’re delighted to announce the GA release of our innovative logging solution - VictoriaLogs. Our easy-to-use, open source log management solution combines a powerful query language for easy log searching with minimal resource requirements. It’s perfect for managing and analyzing large volumes of log data, especially in containerised environments such as Kubernetes.