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At Nexthink, we are committed to supporting our customers as they accelerate sustainable IT improvements in the global fight against climate change. Through our Sustainable IT solution, we aim to provides vital insights to help IT and EUC professionals embed sustainability into the core of their IT strategy. The great news is that doing this leads directly to operational efficiency and cost savings. We hope every company keeps this in mind as they accelerate their sustainable IT efforts.

Testing is still the most arduous, painful, and expensive task within a DevOps practice, regardless of framework or approach. Why? Because the current approaches to testing and development are not focused on production. Production-Driven Development (PDD), allows for rapid iteration without sacrificing stability or confidence. Following PDD, a small team or single developer can launch an application in weeks that used to take multiple teams months or a year.

Organizations implementing observability in their digital services architecture should be familiar with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) framework. While our OTEL guide provides an in-depth examination of the benefits of this open-source framework, the potential security challenges with OpenTelemetry warrant a separate guide.

While developing the "new" canonical check feature for elmah.io Uptime Monitoring, I had to parse a website from C# and inspect the DOM. I have been using Html Agility Pack in the past so this was an obvious choice. I also looked at what happened in the space and found that AngleSharp is an excellent alternative. In this blog post, I'll showcase both frameworks to help you get started.

Drawing synergy from ManageEngine, Zoho Corporation's business IT division, Site24x7 grew steadily to cover all geographies and sectors. We extended observability to cover the entire gamut of the rapidly changing IT infrastructure landscape. Today, Site24x7 is an AI-powered, comprehensive IT monitoring solution with a keen eye on privacy and security.

OpenTelemetry (also abbreviated as OTEL) is an increasingly popular open-source observability platform under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which is currently the most active project in the CNCF after Kubernetes. It was created to establish a unified and vendor-agnostic way for instrumenting, collecting, and exporting telemetry data for your system and application across traces, logs, and metrics.

Grafana Cloud, our composable observability platform, is billed based on usage. A common question we get is: “How much will it cost to monitor N servers?” Well, the recently expanded Grafana Cloud Free tier includes up to 10,000 active series. To help you understand what that translates to in terms of time series requirements, here’s a rough guide to estimating what you’ll need.

The world of AI and machine learning has evolved at an accelerated pace these past few years, and the advent of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion has brought a lot of additional attention to the topic. Being aware of this, Grafana Labs prepared an integration for monitoring one of the most used machine learning model servers available: TensorFlow Serving. TensorFlow Serving is an open source, flexible serving system built to support the use of machine learning models at scale.

The Cribl team just wrapped up the 2023 AWS Summit in Washington, DC, and we were thrilled to spend a few days chatting with public sector organizations looking to gain the freedom and flexibility our products offer.

In this livestream, Jackie McGuire and I discuss the harmful effects of data debt on observability and security teams. Data debt is a pervasive problem that increases costs and produces poor results across observability and security. Simply put — garbage in equals garbage out. We delve into what data debt is and some long term solutions. You can also subscribe to Cribl’s podcast to listen on the go!