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IT Ops vs DevOps: Same Goal, Different Mindset

The debate around IT Ops vs DevOps often creates confusion about whether these are competing approaches or complementary ones. While both aim to deliver reliable, efficient technology services, they approach this goal from fundamentally different perspectives. Understanding these differences helps organizations build stronger technology teams and choose the right operational model.

Explaining Icinga Director for Practitioners Webinar Recording

Starting from a clean installation, we will guide you through the complete setup process and create a first monitoring configuration together. You will learn how to navigate the Icinga Director interface, discover its main features, and see how automation can simplify your daily work through data imports and synchronization rules. You'll learn: Resources: Some more questions from the FAQ section, we want to answer.

Send OpenTelemetry traces and logs from Cloudflare Workers to Grafana Cloud

Cloudflare Workers is a developer platform for deploying serverless functions, frontends, containers, and databases to a global network, spanning 330+ cities around the world. However, as your application scales, it becomes crucial to have the right observability tools to investigate issues, monitor performance, and get alerts when issues arise. Last month, Cloudflare Workers announced support for exporting OpenTelemetry logs and traces, letting you send this data directly to Grafana Cloud.

Use Database Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud to Identify and Resolve Slow Queries

In this video, I introduce Database Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud. I'll demonstrate how to spot and resolve slow queries by leveraging rich metrics and correlating database performance directly with traces in Splunk Observability Cloud APM. TOC.

A Week of Insight, Connection, and Innovation at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo in Orlando

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo is always a standout experience for ScienceLogic, and this year’s event in Orlando was no exception. The event brought together seasoned IT leaders, analysts, and solution providers, creating a dynamic hub for meaningful conversations, hands-on demos, and translating future-driven insights into action. More than being honored to attend, ScienceLogic thrives on engaging with IT leaders on the show floor, in sessions, and throughout the event.

Automate infrastructure operations with Datadog Infrastructure Management

Many organizations struggle to track how their cloud infrastructure changes over time. Modern environments span tens of thousands of resources across hundreds of accounts and multiple clouds. Application teams add new services and regions at a rapid pace, increasing the number and variety of resources that need to be managed. These shifts can cause infrastructure configurations to drift from a well-architected state, increasing the risk of service reliability issues and unexpected cloud spend.

Key Metrics Your Browser Monitoring Software Should Track

Modern web applications rely on seamless user experiences, fast load times, and reliable performance across every device and region. Browser monitoring tools make these features possible by tracking how real web browsers interact with your site revealing issues long before users notice them. To ensure your monitoring setup captures everything that matters, here are the five essential metrics every browser monitoring solution must track.

OTel Updates: Unroll Processor Now in Collector Contrib

Some log sources bundle multiple events into a single record before shipping them. This is common with VPC flow logs, CloudWatch exports, and certain Windows endpoint collectors. While this batching approach is efficient for transport, it creates challenges when you need to filter, search, or correlate individual events. When a log record contains an array of 47 events, your analytics tool sees one entry instead of 47 distinct records.