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Java 16 Commits to Git and GitHub: A Personal Reflection

I was introduced to Git and GitHub in May of 2014 – just shy of 10 years since Git was created in 2005. That same day I was also handed a MacBook Pro laptop and an IntelliJ license, the main tools with which I was to begin my new role as a developer in a new position at a new company. It all sounds lovely, right?

Brand New Desktop and Server Management Remote Control Capability

We are very excited to announce the official release of Ivanti Desktop and Server Manager Remote Control - A new Remote Control solution based on Ivanti technology! Ivanti continues to provide useful tools to support our customers in the Everywhere Workplace – especially in times where remote work is more often the norm rather than the exception.

CDN Monitoring Is More Than Just Performance, It's About Hard Dollars

On one of our monthly check-in calls, the Director of Infrastructure and Operations at one of our largest customers, was telling me how the one big problem he was still trying to solve is optimizing their OPEX or at least make it more predictable. He cited a popular Content Delivery Network (CDN) that they spend millions with as an example. The company had launched a new service and he spoke about how the CDN cost had quadrupled.

BMC Remedyforce Plugin for Pandora FMS

There are more than eight hundred pages of documentation for Pandora FMS. The science – and art, I think – of monitoring is very extensive. The needs of a large company are different from those of a medium or small organization. But even two large companies are not the same and their needs may be totally different.

Uniting Tracing and Logs With OpenTelemetry Span Events

The current landscape of what our customers are dealing with in monitoring and observability can be a bit of a mess. For one thing, there are varying expectations and implementations when it comes to observability data. For another, most customers have to lean on a hodgepodge of tools that might blend open source and proprietary, require extensive onboarding as team members have to learn which tools are used for what, and have a steep learning curve in general.

Elastic 7.12 released: General availability of schema on read, technical preview of the frozen tier, and support for autoscaling

We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Elastic 7.12. This release brings a broad set of new capabilities to our Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, which are built into the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Directly search S3 with the new frozen tier

We’re thrilled to announce the technical preview of the frozen tier in 7.12, enabling you to completely decouple compute from storage and directly search data in object stores such as AWS S3, Microsoft Azure Storage, and Google Cloud Storage. The next major milestone in our data tier journey, the frozen tier significantly expands your data reach by storing massive amounts of data for the long haul at much lower cost while keeping it fully active and searchable.

Elastic APM PHP Agent 1.0 released

We are proud to announce the 1.0 release of the Elastic APM PHP Agent! If you are interested in this work, please try the agent and let us know how it works for you and what features you miss! The best way to give feedback and ask questions is in our discussion forum, or if you find an issue or you would like to submit a pull request, jump to our GitHub repository. The agent is Apache-licensed, and we are more than happy to receive contributions from the community!

Anodot vs. Datadog: The Breakdown

We are often asked what’s the difference between Anodot and Datadog. Since both platforms monitor data at scale, using machine learning to detect anomalies and incidents, the differentiation might be unclear. So we’re using the real estate here to quickly clarify what each platform is built for, and why – despite some overlaps in features – these are two fundamentally different creatures.