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CIO Insights: The New Normal and Cloud Mobility

As I wrote in a previous blog post, the world has recently undergone unprecedented changes that have wreaked havoc for CIOs as they struggle to ensure operational continuity, especially in scenarios where extreme changes happen overnight. What does operational continuity look like as businesses move forward in the framework of the new normal? In the earlier blog post, I highlighted some significant paradigm shifts the new normal includes, with a specific focus on these areas.

Top Reasons Why You Need a Digital Experience Monitoring Strategy

Your cloud application or service can look pristine from an IT perspective, while the end-user identifies it as “glitchy” and “unreliable”. Though the technical issues may not be your fault, it still impacts the user’s perception of your company and brand. Issues could spawn from the user’s device limitations, the browser version, or a regional public cloud outage that is causing the poor user experience.

Reimagine All You Have Learned: APM and the Skills Gap

APM tools have been formerly and primarily siloed in the application development arena, with only the most important and mission-critical applications having their APM instrumentation extended into production use due to complexity and cost. In the modern world of application monitoring, the requirements for Dev and Ops need to be tightly integrated.

Windows Server Monitoring with Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS is a proactive, advanced, flexible and easy-to-configure monitoring tool tailored to business itself. It adapts to all needs both in servers, network computers, devices and whatever is necessary. In this article, we will focus on Windows Server monitoring, using the software agent installed on our server.

Monitoring Java applications with Elastic: Multiservice traces and correlated logs

In this two-part blog post, we’ll use Elastic Observability to monitor a sample Java application. In the first blog post, we started by looking at how Elastic Observability monitors Java applications. We built and instrumented a sample Java Spring application composed of a data-access microservice supported by a MySQL backend. In this part, we’ll use Java ECS logging and APM log correlation to link transactions with their logs.

Manage Your Splunk Infrastructure as Code Using Terraform

Splunk is happy to announce that we now have a Hashicorp verified Terraform Provider for Splunk. The provider is publicly available in the Terraform Registry and can be used by referencing it in your Terraform configuration file and simply executing terraform init. If you're new to Terraform and Providers, the latest version of Terraform is available here. You will need to download the appropriate binaries and have Terraform installed before using the provider.

Monitor Alcide kAudit logs with Datadog

Kubernetes audit logs contain detailed information about every request to the Kubernetes API server and are critical to detecting misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in your clusters. But because even a small Kubernetes environment can rapidly generate lots of audit logs, it’s very difficult to manually analyze them.