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Network traffic monitoring has become critical in today's digital age, where businesses rely on various applications and services to operate. As the amount of data transmitted over networks continues to grow exponentially, network administrators must keep a close eye on the traffic to ensure optimal network performance and security. Network administrators must have a deep understanding of packet flows, collection methods, and analytics to ensure that their networks are secure and performing optimally.

In this article, we will see how we can integrate an Azure data source with Graphite and Grafana. This will allow us to monitor metrics from the applications hosted in the Azure cloud on a Grafana dashboard. We will also see how to integrate Azure Active Directory with MetricFire’s Hosted Graphite and Grafana. You don’t need fully functional cloud services running with Azure to understand this article, but it assumes that you have basic familiarity with Azure Cloud.

If you research modern observability solutions to manage multi-cloud and hybrid IT environments, you will inevitably learn about OpenTelemetry (OTEL or OTel). The technology has become so rampant that dev or ops professionals still unaware of it are afraid to ask what it actually means. Fret not, as we’ll describe it for you here.

The rise of Artificial Intelligence in every domain is very apparent, and as a result, the impact of AI on IT operations needs to be comprehended by one and all. AI, or artificial intelligence, is a field of computer science that focuses on developing intelligent machines that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence and decision-making. But what exactly are IT operations?

IT admins are expected to keep the organization’s network reliable and resilient all while the complexity of today’s networks grows. From adopting hybrid infrastructures and maintaining multi-cloud environments’ security to managing ever-increasing bandwidth demands, enterprise network management is getting more difficult by day.

Today, in Pandora FMS blog, we will continue with the feat of presenting the best features of Pandora FMS 2022-2023. I talk about “continuing” because this article is the second part of a great first episode. If you haven’t read it yet… go ahead, here we’ll be waiting for you, and besides, I’m not in a hurry.

Code instrumentation is an essential practice in modern software development. Not only does it aid in debugging, it ultimately impacts the MTTR (Mean Time to Resolve) for software running in production. With changing software architectures and deployment patterns over the years, approaches to code instrumentation have also undergone a significant shift.

In the last post, we explain how to specify nullable elements inside our JSON. Today we will continue on the same topic, JSON Schema. This time I will speak about another Best practice, Tips, and Tricks that you must consider while designing your business processes (Logic Apps): Specifying JSON Schema required elements.

Cribl has a unique position right in the middle of the observability market, giving us a distinct view of all things security, APM, and log analysis. Observability as a concept has exploded into specialized areas over the past two years, and making sense of the players and market forces, particularly in a difficult macro environment, can be tricky. Let’s break it down.