The use of virtualization for hosting server VMs is well understood. Today, most virtualization platforms provide administration and monitoring software that admins can use to track the health of their hypervisors and virtual machines (VMs). The use of virtualization for desktops is more recent.

Today, we’re going to continue diving into Catchpoint’s wealth of synthetic tests with a brief overview of network protocols and a look at some helpful use cases specifically around monitoring your email service. I’ll be sharing a hands-on demo, illustrating how this data shows up in Catchpoint – focusing on a pair of protocol tests we’ll be running against our email service.

Enterprise data growth is accelerating rapidly in 2021, challenging organizations to adopt cloud data retention strategies that maximize the value of data and fulfill compliance needs while minimizing costs. To meet this challenge, organizations are adopting or refining their cloud data retention strategies. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at the state of data retention and analytics in the cloud.

Logs are vital for every application that runs in a server environment. Logs provide essential information which points to whether the current system is operating properly. Looking through logs, you will gather data on system issues, errors, and trends. However, it is not feasible to manually look up errors on various servers across thousands of log files. The solution? Central errors logging services.

I was recently on the Changelog Podcast talking about Elastic’s recent change away from open source licensing. I’m at 1:02:45 to 1:24:03, but the whole thing is pretty interesting if you have time to listen. This is where #InfluxDB is headed. No more open core, we're going to a combination of cloud offering, or if on-premise, a complementary offering to the open source. It'll take us time to get there, but that's the vision. Commercial complements the open source rather than replace.

Say you’re looking for a smart product to detect anomalies in your organization’s IT environment. A sales rep drops by and shows you all kinds of great artificial intelligence (AI) features with fancy-sounding algorithms. It sounds very impressive and seems like there is a lot of very valuable AI in the product. But, in fact, the opposite is true. This is a manual AI product wrapped in a deceiving jacket. Let me tell you more.

Let’s check out together the new features and improvements for Pandora FMS new release: Pandora FMS 752.

Are you looking for a better way to troubleshoot, debug, and really see and understand what weird behavior is happening in production? Service-level objectives (SLOs) and observability can help you do all that—but they require collecting and storing the right data. If we’re naive with our telemetry strategy, we spend a lot of money on storing data without seeing adequate return on investment in the form of insights.

Dashbird now scans your serverless infrastructure for industry best practices. It’s the antidote for chaos. We’re excited to introduce the Dashbird Well-Architected Insights – a continuous insights scanner combined with Well-Architected reports. The new feature provides serverless developers with insights and recommendations to continually improve their applications and keep them secure, compliant, optimized, and efficient.

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