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APM's Evolution to Observability

The evolution of IT, the changing requirements for ensuring availability, the performance of critical applications, and the performance of the underlying infrastructure—no matter where it’s running—are all part of the story of the application performance management (APM) story. Still, the transition and need for observability are much more than this.

From Monitoring to Observability - Any Size, Anywhere

As you respond to a changing IT landscape, you must update your approach to supporting your organization’s services. We believe 2022 will be the year of Observability. While Observability means many things, SolarWinds can help you understand how it can transform your team and organization. Please join Rohini Kasturi, EVP and Chief Product Officer, and Richa Dhanda, VP of Product Marketing, as they share how SolarWinds is evolving our product portfolio to deliver comprehensive visualization into full-stack solutions for hybrid IT and cloud environments. Rohini will also preview some exciting developments coming in 2022.

Read: 2021 Gartner 2021 Market Guide for AIOps Platforms by Gartner

We are excited to be named a Representative Vendor in the domain-agnostic AIOps platforms market in the 2021 Gartner Market Guide for AIOps Platforms. We believe that this validates our unique approach to delivering an observability solution that accelerates your success with: Read our summary of this Gartner research report, below. If you haven’t noticed, AIOps is taking off.

Rollbar Certified for SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3

We are pleased to announce that an independent service auditor has certified that Rollbar meets SOC 2 Type II criteria and also SOC3 criteria. This extends our security, data privacy, and compliance certifications. Last year Rollbar was certified to meet SOC Type I to go with our existing ISO 27001 certification. The ISO 27001 standard promotes continuous improvement of security processes and demonstrates our commitment to customer support, customer excellence, and data privacy and security.

What Is Prometheus?

Prometheus is a metrics-based monitoring and alerting stack that is purpose-built for handling metrics generated by dynamic cloud environments such as Kubernetes. Another example target for Prometheus to gather metrics from could be a web app or an API server. As well as its use as an alerting and monitoring stack, Prometheus is also able to perform addition, average metrics over time and add and multiply any time-series data ingested.

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The Best Kubernetes Monitoring Tools

In this article, you'll learn about the best Kubernetes performance monitoring tools that are currently on the market. Although there are a number of application performance monitoring solutions out there, this article covers the best options in terms of their key features, functionalities, ease of setup, and the support garnered from each of their respective communities.

Supporting, Extending, and Protecting Virtual Environments

Virtualization remains the key technology of the data center. It's also been the foundational technology that allowed cloud to proliferate. In modern environments, to get the most out of cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud, organizations need to stay on top of the latest developments in virtualization. Watch this On-Demand event to learn about the latest technologies in virtualization and virtualization-adjacent areas, like containers, software-defined storage, software-defined networking, the software-defined data center, and more!

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. It assists in identifying where important events happened during the loading process. They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site.