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Monitoring the performance and health of infrastructure is crucial for ensuring smooth operations. From data centers and cloud environments to networks and IoT devices, infrastructure monitoring plays a vital role in identifying issues, optimizing resource utilization, and maintaining high availability. However, traditional monitoring approaches often struggle to handle the volume and velocity of data generated by modern infrastructures. This is where time series databases, like InfluxDB, come into play.

In digital transactions, even the slightest hiccup can ripple through the system, causing significant disruptions. Our recent encounter with an unexpected system slowdown and a noticeable drop in transaction success rates is a testament to the intricate balance required to maintain seamless operations. This post aims to shed light on the incident, our findings, and the measures we’ve taken to fortify our system against future disturbances.

Service Mocking can accelerate dev cycles, especially as part of Internal Developer Platforms.

Choosing an OpenTelemetry backend depends on several factors, such as your monitoring and observability requirements, current infrastructure, scalability needs, and budget constraints.

Today, more than 95% of professionals use networks for communications, file transfer, and other business operations. The more a business is dependent on the latest technologies and practices, the more complex their network will be. So, no matter whether you run a small company or a large organization, with modern networking, chances are high that administrators might face network issues with the management of complex networks.

As with any distributed system, networking plays a fundamental role in Kubernetes. Whether it’s allowing containers on different nodes to communicate, exposing services to external clients, or managing the flow of data between pods, Kubernetes networking is at the heart of the Kubernetes ecosystem. Understanding this system is the key to keeping your deployments running smoothly.

Amazon Web Services is one of the most popular services that StatusGator users subscribe to so they can be among the first to learn if AWS or any of its components or regions experience downtime. Previously, we already explored the least reliable AWS Region, and we continue to explore the most popular cloud computing platform. Here are facts on Amazon Web Services as of 2024 split into categories.

This blog has been written in partnership with Citrix Ready Marketing and is also available on the Citrix Website.

Bitbucket Cloud is excited to announce the general availability release of our integration with Atlassian’s Forge extensibility platform, marking a significant step forward in our journey to build an infinitely extensible code and CI/CD solution; a concept we've labelled the DevOps Automation Platform. Forge is Atlassian's cloud app development platform, allowing developers to host apps on infrastructure that is provisioned, managed, monitored, and scaled automatically by Atlassian.