If you’re here you probably know the essence of open source already. To us, open source means more than just open source code – it’s also the ethics and the community feeling that goes along with that. For us it means that the people working on Icinga are more than just who we see in our office – Icinga lives from your ideas and contributions. And we want to invite you to join in on the fun!

An observability solution should help any incident responder understand what changed and why. A lot has been written on the difference between monitoring and observability, but an easy way to understand how both are integral to incident response is to consider how customers use PagerDuty—with both monitoring and observability tools—to get to the right answer.

Before we dive into how to monitor virtualized environments with VMWare, let’s clarify a couple of concepts for those who are less into the subject, starting withWhat is VMWare?. VMWare is a software product development company, mostly related to virtualization, and more recently to containerization, although this is beyond the scope of this article. Today, we are going to focus on monitoring virtualized environments with VMWare.

Operational resilience is currently a hot topic in Financial Services, largely because of the impact that COVID has had on how customers interact with financial institutions. Almost overnight, the financial services industry had to cope with a large volume of transactions moving to digital channels at the same time as its employees were forced to set up home offices so that they could continue to work remotely.

Google has finally started unveiling its algorithm update, much to many website owners’ dismay. Unfortunately, we don’t have a choice in the matter. Instead, we have to just jump on board and make sure that our websites are in tip-top condition so that the search engine giant can’t find a reason to penalise us or drop us in rankings. This refers to the average time the page takes to load when a customer clicks onto your website.

If you’ve been working with SEO for some time, you’d know that although it’s a reliable way of improving your website’s searchability, it’s often marred by the downside of being very time-consuming. Moreover, manual SEO strategies could easily fail to achieve the desired results because of the ever-increasing level of competition. In such a scenario, an automated tool that helps you enhance your SEO efforts can prove to be a boon.

Today’s global commerce landscape requires companies to have essential real-time, critical data about how efficiently their networks are functioning. This is especially true for enterprises engaged in e-commerce where having a clear window into the end user experience enables them to compete in an increasingly crowded marketplace. This holds true for the largest international organizations all the way down to locally based start-ups.

In this post, we will discuss some key considerations and strategies to collect and analyze your AWS Lambda logs. This will include 1) what to know about logging Lambda functions, 2) how to ship log data to a centralized logging solution, and 3) how to search and visualize log data on monitoring dashboards.

Global Site Load Balancing (GSLB) is an important part of your application infrastructure, but many people don’t understand its benefits. In this post we’ll explain how GSLB works and how LoadMaster GEO can bring big benefits in availability and performance at a fraction of the cost of alternatives.

Bugs are more likely to enter the equation as applications grow larger and more complicated, resulting in poor user experience. We tend to abandon applications when they don't load as quickly as we expect. Developers need code-level performance insights to deliver the optimal user experience. They also need to know which users are affected by issues so that they can reproduce the issue and work on a solution more quickly.