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

Automating Operations via Closed-Loop Remediation

It's hard enough to run an operations center in the best of times, especially in large, complex environments supporting myriad applications. Some of the many challenges are: Now throw in the current set of challenges with personnel being remote, and the problems get compounded exponentially. The ability to "tap the shoulder" or "conference room huddle," while not always the most efficient to begin with, is no longer an option.

Barbara Nelson | How Can I Put That Dashboard in My App? | InfluxDays

Many users love using the InfluxDB UI to visualize their time series data in a variety of different graphical representations. In this session, Barbara Nelson will show how to use Giraffe (the React-based visualization library powering the data visualizations in InfluxDB 2.0 UI) to visualize your time series data within your own app. You can bring the power of our visualization tools to your users, directly in your app, instead of requiring them to login to the InfluxDB UI to see a visual representation of your data.

Go from 0 to monitoring in minutes with Netdata

Netdata is zero-configuration monitoring. It’s a principle that we’ve stood behind since the project’s beginning, when it was only our CEO Costa trying to solve a “painful, real-world problem,” and it’s one we stand by today. Our insistence on zero-configuration guides every product decision we make, every grooming process, and every React component our frontend teams design.

User Experience Monitoring and Synthetics with Elastic Observability

Elastic Observability 7.10 introduces exciting new capabilities that bring deeper visibility into the most important layer of digital monitoring — the experience of the end user. User experience monitoring — accessed via a brand new app in Kibana — provides real-time visibility into website performance, and multistep journey checks in Uptime significantly expand synthetic monitoring capabilities to help operational teams proactively catch issues by monitoring simulated journeys. Plus, several new features like searchable snapshots, out-of-the-box anomaly detection jobs for infrastructure monitoring, and a PHP agent for Elastic APM help the Elastic Observability community optimize costs while deepening visibility across operations.

Observability with Context: Telemetry, Time, Tracing, and Topology

That’s the question ops personnel have been asking for decades whenever something goes wrong in the production IT environment. Everything was working before, so the reasoning goes, and now it’s not. We have an incident. And to figure out what caused the incident – and hence, to have any idea how to fix it – we must know what changed. There’s just one problem with this approach. What if everything is subject to change, all the time?

PuTTY from a monitoring perspective

PuTTY is a free program (MIT license) for x86 and AMD 64 architectures (now in experimental stages for ARM). It was developed in 1997!, by Simon Tatham, a British programmer. In this blog, we have been reviewing this useful program for several years, and even the great Pandora FMS team has confirmed it just now in 2020, in the list of network commands for Microsoft Windows® and GNU/Linux®. What if it deserves its own article? Read and judge for yourselves.

Managing IT at Scale: Distributed Monitoring for Large IT Environments

Growth for an enterprise is an exciting thing, but it often presents a unique challenge for IT professionals. There are common roadblocks that are encountered when trying to upscale an IT management environment. In this first blog of our Managing IT Infrastructure at Scale series, we discuss the benefits of distributed monitoring data for large IT environments.

Elastic 7.10 released, with a beta of searchable snapshots and the GA of Kibana Lens

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 7.10. This release brings a broad set of new capabilities to our Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, which are built on the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. 7.10 delivers significant new capabilities to market, transforming the way in which our customers and users can trade off cost, performance, and depth of data with searchable snapshots.

New Market Research Shows More than 80% of Global 2000 Companies Planning to Leverage the Cloud Intend to Maintain On-Premises Environments

San Jose, CA, November 11, 2020 – A vast majority (84%) of companies considered “digital leaders” by IDC, a leading provider of global IT research and advice, are turning to a hybrid cloud approach as they adopt public cloud services to improve IT service delivery.