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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?

Jun 6, 2024 By Allyson Barr In StackState

As modern applications and IT infrastructures become increasingly complex, the need for effective monitoring and management tools has never been more critical. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a comprehensive approach that provides visibility into application performance, availability, and user experience. APM is an important tool for platform engineers and developers who are tasked with ensuring that applications run smoothly and efficiently and meet end-user needs.

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Cloud vs On-Premises Monitoring What if you can´t use the Cloud?

Jun 5, 2024 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt

Executive Summary Cloud and on-premises monitoring offer distinct advantages; cloud monitoring provides unmatched scalability and accessibility, while on-premises monitoring ensures enhanced data security, control, and customization. On-premises solutions are essential for industries with strict compliance requirements and sensitive data handling needs, such as healthcare and finance.

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CxOs are loving CloudSpend summary reports: Keeping the cloud financially grounded

Jun 5, 2024 By CloudSpend In ManageEngine

CloudSpend Summary Reports The cloud offers a treasure trove of benefits for businesses, including scalability, agility, and access to cutting-edge technologies. However, for CxOs, managing cloud costs effectively can be a constant tightrope walk. Ever feel overwhelmed by your cloud bill? You are not alone! That is where the Summary Report comes in. It is a handy tool to understand your cloud spending and identify potential savings opportunities.

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Crash Reporting for Shopify

Jun 5, 2024 By Raygun In Raygun

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Elastic 8.14: GA of Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL) for simplified analysis

Jun 5, 2024 By Brian Bergholm In Elastic

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 8.14.

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How we use Grafana Alloy clustering to scrape nearly 20M Prometheus metrics

Jun 5, 2024 By Tristan Burgess In Grafana

If you are interested in running your own Grafana Alloy cluster for high availability or horizontal scalability, then you’re in the right place. That’s because we’ve already done it with our own agentless exporters system, which allows you to scrape data from providers such as Amazon CloudWatch, without running any applications on your own infrastructure.

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Deadman Alerts with Grafana and InfluxDB Cloud 3.0

Jun 5, 2024 By Anais Dotis-Georgiou In InfluxData

Flagging failures or inactivity in your monitoring system are crucial for maintaining operational reliability. This blog will guide you through setting up deadman alerts using Grafana and InfluxDB Cloud, tools that help you detect issues before they become critical. We’llintegrating Grafana’s visualization capabilities with InfluxDB Cloud’s data management features to create a robust monitoring system.

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Classful and Classless Addressing Explained

Jun 5, 2024 By Steve Petryschuk In Auvik

If you’ve ever been in charge of IP address assignment, you’ve come across the terms classful and classless addressing. If you haven’t, the main difference between classful and classless addressing is in the subnet length: classful addressing uses fixed-length subnet masks, but classless uses variable length subnet masks (VLSM).

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Network Basics: What Is Link Aggregation & How Does It Work?

Jun 5, 2024 By Kevin Dooley In Auvik

Link aggregation is a way of bundling a bunch of individual (Ethernet) links together so they act as a single logical link. A fundamental for effective switch management, if you have a switch with a whole lot of Gigabit Ethernet ports, you can connect all of them to another device that also has a bunch of ports and balance the traffic among these links to improve performance.

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Demo: Kentik Network Observability for Hybrid Clouds

Jun 5, 2024 By Kentik In Kentik

In this video, we demonstrate how Kentik provides comprehensive network observability for hybrid cloud environments, encompassing both on-premises and public cloud resources. We start with the Kentik map, showcasing active on-prem sites and cloud environments, then dive into specific examples of how to view and analyze traffic and connectivity. The demo covers how Kentik collects network telemetry from various sources, including AWS VPC flow logs, Azure NSG flow logs, and SNMP, to provide detailed insights into network performance.

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