Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Monitoring

The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Finding the Bug in the Haystack with Machine Learning: Logz.io Exceptions in Kibana

Logz.io is releasing its AI-powered Exceptions, a revamped version of our Application Insights, fully embedded in your Kibana Discover experience, to boost your troubleshooting experience and help you find bugs in the log haystack.

What's the Difference Between MTTR, MTTD, MTTF, and MTBF?

We’ve all been there. You’re on an important Zoom call with your team, and someone uses an abbreviation you’re not familiar with. You’ve heard it, but you’re not quite sure exactly what it means. You want to do a quick Google, but you’re sharing your screen! Ugh. Let’s pull apart some of these abbreviations for incident management KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). Now, you won’t find yourself SOL at your next Zoom call with the Support team.

How I started contributing to the Grafana open source project

My name is Karine. I’m a Software Engineer working with a team that provides monitoring solutions to our clients. A good part of my daily work is creating dashboards in Grafana. Since I started working with this tool, I have been so impressed by the quality and ease of use. I became even more impressed when I discovered it was an open source tool.

Raw & Real Ep 7 The Tracing You Deserve So You Can Observe

Distributed tracing is key to building and operating reliable services that make your customers happy. Traces pinpoint where failures occur and what causes poor performance. With tracing and observability, you can visualize the entire life cycle of service requests and discover hidden latency, errors, and optimization opportunities monitoring can’t show you. So why doesn’t everybody do it? Setting up tracing is notoriously difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. Honeycomb Instrumentation Engineer Paul Osman has the easy-breezy steps for you to get the tracing you deserve.

Introducing Inputs Data Manager on Splunk Cloud

Splunk Cloud’s ecosystem of apps and technical add-ons boasts a comprehensive set of input sources that enrich customer data insights. Many of these inputs reside in Cloud contexts, such as AWS, Salesforce, Azure, GCP, and many others. The Inputs Data Manager was introduced to aid the ingestion of these cloud data sources. As a result, in many cases, customers no longer need to host their own infrastructure to run scripted and modular inputs.

The importance of metadata in your Kubernetes observability initiatives

Kubernetes is a popular container orchestration system at the heart of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects. It automates the deployment, lifecycle, and operations of containers, containerized applications, and "pods," which are groups of one or more containers. The platform itself, along with each of these workloads, may generate event data. There are different kinds of data associated with these processes.

AWS Well-Architected Framework in Serverless: Operational Excellence

Welcome to part two of the five-part “Well-Architected Serverless” series. This article will discuss the second most crucial pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF): Operational Excellence (OPS). We have a Well Architected webinar coming up! To learn more about the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) through the serverless lens and how to build Well-Architected architectures, make sure to attend our upcoming webinar on Friday, 27 November.

Workflow Automation with Human Supervision

IT automation is growing in adoption this year as IT organizations grapple with constantly changing priorities, the pressure of supporting large remote workforces and tight resources. However, IT teams are hesitant to deploy automation workflows on production infrastructure that supports important business applications and services. Trust is an issue – but errors do occur. Unsupervised automation can sometimes create more problems by missing the actual context for issue resolution.