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Navigating the fast-paced, highly competitive telecommunications industry calls for a proactive approach to stay ahead of the curve. As customer expectations soar and technological advancements continue to shape the sector, telcos must embrace IT automation to remain relevant. Delving into 5 top use cases for IT automation in the telco industry, let’s uncover the key drivers that empower businesses to thrive in today's market and be well-prepared for the demands of the future.

A core belief of Memfault is that we can ship faster when we have good infrastructure in place. An essential piece of this infrastructure is tools to send firmware updates over the air. It enables the team to ship more often and spend more time building features. In this article, we look specifically at what is required to ship over-the-air firmware updates for Linux systems. A good OTA setup should allow you to quickly prepare updates and ship them with confidence.

Today the Checkly CLI is generally available. Together with its companion — the new test sessions screen (in beta) — this marks a big milestone for us at Checkly and our users. We already talked about monitoring as code and the CLI during its alpha and beta testing phases but here is a short recap. With the Checkly CLI you have the most powerful monitoring as code workflow at your fingertips.

We believe monitoring should be set up as code and live in your repository. Today, we are thrilled to announce that our Checkly CLI is now available to everyone! The CLI is our native tool enabling monitoring as code (MaC). This is a significant achievement for us, and we owe it to our users who beta-tested the CLI and gave us valuable feedback over the past few weeks.

Are you tired of sounding like a robot on your VoIP calls? Or maybe you're just sick of hearing your colleagues sound like they're calling from the bottom of a well? Fear not, my friends, for the solution to your VoIP woes is here! Introducing VoIP Monitoring 101: Keeping Your Calls Crystal Clear. In this article, we'll break down everything you need to know about VoIP monitoring - from what it is to why it matters - so you can say goodbye to poor call quality and hello to crystal-clear conversations.

Incident response has been the cornerstone of reliability for decades. From digging in the server logs to navigating modern observability dashboards, responding quickly to incidents and outages is a big part of minimizing downtime. And it should be! When something breaks, your team should move as quickly as possible to address and repair the problem.

Data can be overwhelming. The purpose of this blog is help you sift through data to find exactly what you need to use it in a meaningful way when solving Citrix problems. After working in performance benchmarking and analysis, one thing I noticed is only the really really big companies have full-time staff dedicated to doing analysis on a daily basis. Which means, it’s up to the generalists, or Jacks and Jills-of-all-trades, to review data and make sense of it. How does one do this?

Flowmon is not a stand-alone system used in isolation. It is part of an ecosystem of monitoring and security tools used across the enterprise. Recently, we have introduced new integrations with Splunk and ServiceNow to simplify interoperability and enable IT and security teams to be more efficient. This is a good opportunity to remind of all the integration options and resources we have.

Whether or not you take the oft-quoted statistic that 30% of companies’ cloud spend as gospel, one thing is for sure: Companies have been spending recklessly in the cloud ever since its inception. For (fairly) good reason — companies wanted to perfect their products and snatch up market share before an even more reckless spender did. But the chickens of overindulgence are finally coming home to roost.

From Robocars to Reliability — SRE with self-driving cars; mapping out where the Observability space is in conjunction with self-driving cars.