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Pandora FMS vs Centreon vs Nagios XI

Centreon is a solution for monitoring applications, systems and networks, based on Nagios source code. On 1st August, 2005 the company Merethis (now Centreon) was founded and began working on “their” Nagios version, calling it Oreon. In July 2007, the Oreon software changed its name to Centreon due to a name conflict with Orion (a component of the SolarWinds monitoring suite).

Masaf Dawood on Google Cloud's Compelling Enterprise Story

Google Cloud has been gaining some noticeable traction in recent months: 43% growth in Q2 is nothing to sniff about, especially during a global recession. Masaf Dawood is director of Google Cloud services with SpringML, a premier Google Cloud partner with specialties in application development, data analytics, machine learning and marketing analytics. SpringML works exclusively with Google Cloud and has worked on 200 engagements with Google since the consultancy was founded in 2015.

AWS ECU vs vCPU-Everything You Need to Know

If you’ve deployed an application or service to the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud, you’ve probably made use of an EC2 instance. One of the decisions that you had to make before you could start a new instance, was which instance type to use. Choosing an EC2 instance type can be a complicated process. AWS organizes their instance types into instance families, and within an instance family, there are varying sizes from micro to 32xlarge.

PostgreSQL vs MySQL

Despite all of the hype about NoSQL databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL are two database management systems that have truly stood the test of time. These systems were developed back in the mid 90’s, and they still consistently rank among the top 5 most popular databases across the internet. So why are they so widely used and how do they compare? Read on to find out!

Real User Monitoring for JavaScript with Retrace

Real User Monitoring, also known as End User Monitoring or RUM, is a way of monitoring the client side portions of an application. Real User Monitoring for JavaScript allows developers to have access to key metrics for load times and user paths being used in production as part of their application performance management (APM).

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Reduce MTTR with Crowd-Sourced Analytics

The new normal for enterprises today is to witness the vast majority of its employees working remotely across multiple geographic locations and communicating through cloud applications such as Office 365, Slack, or video conferencing tools such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom. As more users feel the need to avoid travel and stay at home due to Covid19, it becomes critical that the underlying infrastructure monitoring these applications respond immediately to service disruptions and sub-optimal performance. The slower an application becomes, the more negative impact it can have on employee productivity and the firm's ability to conduct business smoothly.

Monitor Auth0 with Datadog

Auth0 provides identity as a service (IDaaS), allowing you to secure your apps and APIs without having to write your own authorization code. Auth0 can work with social identity providers (IdP) like Google and Facebook so your users can access your app by using their existing accounts for authentication. You can also use an existing enterprise identity provider (e.g., LDAP) to allow your users to leverage single sign-on (SSO) across multiple apps.

NiCE Active 365 Management Pack 3.20 released

Microsoft 365 outages happen. The NiCE Active 365 Management Pack for SCOM is an intelligent monitoring set for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Office 365 hosted on-premise. The NiCE Active 365 Management Pack ensures end-to-end control for your Microsoft 365 services. IT executives, operators, and administrators can now actively boost Microsoft 365 User Experience by starting advanced monitoring today.