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Top 10 Network and IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

Network and IT infrastructure monitoring is something necessary for all connected organizations today. However, choosing the right network monitoring tool and software is not easy as there is a huge diversity of these tools on the market now. Comprehensive network and IT monitoring tools help you manage your devices and ensure that they are available when you need them. These tools and software offer a wide variety of benefits for companies of all sizes.

VictoriaMetrics Meetup December 2022

Welcome to the recording for the first VictoriaMetrics User Meet Up live-streamed on our YouTube Channel. Our Founders team discussed 2022 highlights, including features highlights, the 2023 roadmap for VictoriaMetrics, discussed the latest & greatest on Managed VictoriaMetrics - and we finished the meet up with an 'Ask Me Anything' session. Thanks for all the questions and the discussion! Enjoy the recording :-)

Watchdog: AI Across the Datadog Platform

Watchdog is Datadog’s AI engine, providing you with automated alerts, insights, and root cause analyses that draw from observability data across the entire Datadog platform. Watchdog continuously monitors your infrastructure and surfaces the signals that matter most, helping you quickly detect, troubleshoot, and resolve issues. Plus, all Watchdog features come built in—no setup required.

Configuration and Change Tracking: A Key Part of Observability Strategy

Configuration Management and Change Tracking are well known key tenets of project management. Change tracking and controlled change ensure that there is a record of the state of a system and if issues arise the cause can be linked to effects. In this blog, I will use a real-world example to demonstrate the importance of configuration and change tracking when it comes to IT observability.

A Peek into the Next Generation Observability Solutions

As organizations strive to meet the challenges of digital transformation, they are adopting newer technologies to build more robust software systems. Next generation observability solutions are paving the way to help them meander this maze to deliver better customer experiences and drive business results.

PHP Symfony APM Benefits

If you are a Symfony PHP developer, you will need Symfony monitoring. With the ever-increasing need for web applications to perform at their best, developers require full visibility and observability. This way, they have full control of the performance and its maintenance. Imagine you have created an application. You have deployed it but do not know how it works. This is where an Application Performance Monitoring tool is of great use. It should be on every developer’s toolkit.

Top 12 Observability Benefits for Your Company

Observability is a growing practice that provides many benefits to IT and DevOps teams. With greater visibility into their environments, teams can determine the state of the system, predict issues, and mitigate them before end users are impacted. Observability makes data more usable and in turn, businesses reap the benefits of having great insights. Are you on the fence on whether to get started with your own observability practice? Check out these 12 observability benefits and get started today!

Elastic recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines

We’re pleased to announce that Elastic has been named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Insight Engines. This is our second year of inclusion in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for this category, and this year’s evaluation places Elastic as the furthest entry on the "Completeness of Vision" axis.

Docker Container Lifecycle Tutorial | Create, Run, Pause, Stop, Kill

In this tutorial, we will learn about Docker container lifecycle. But first, let me share a personal anecdote. On a hot summer afternoon in 2021, my manager called me out of the blue and said, “Muskan, the project file you shared with me is not working on my machine. Could you please come over and fix the setup? It’s really urgent.” I rushed to his cabin and tried my best but could not fix the dependencies issues.