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Four ways to send SCOM alerts to ServiceNow

If you work with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and ServiceNow then you will be familiar with the fear of missing a critical infrastructure alert! But fear no more, we have just the ticket! Imagine if you could get these two tools working together, to fully synchronize your alerts and incidents for the lifetime of an issue – you’d be living the ITSM dream, right! So, here are our top four methods for making this dream a reality.

Key Differences Between Observability and Monitoring - And Why You Need Both

Observability and Monitoring are viewed by many as interchangeable terms. This is not the case. While they are interlinked, they are not interchangeable. There are actually very clear and defined differences between them. Monitoring is asking your system questions about its current state. Usually these are performance related, and there are many open source monitoring tools available. Many of those available are also specialized.

The State of EdTech 2021: Education Software Usage Analyzed

Today we will share our list of the most popular software tools used by education institutions. Why is this important? If you are managing technology in education you need to make the best choice from among many available tools. Discovering the most popular tools used by other education professionals can help you make an informed choice. After reading the report you’ll know which tools are relied upon by primary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities in the United States.

LogicMonitor Welcomes Airbrake

“Today’s an exciting day for LogicMonitor. But before I share our news, I want to sincerely thank our customers for your business. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a terrible experience for the world, and yet we @ LogicMonitor are fortunate and thankful to be counted on every day by thousands of organizations. I — and our team of over 650 employees worldwide — are grateful for the chance to serve your organizations during these turbulent times”

Container Monitoring: Essential Tools + Best Practices

In the Modern era of application development, businesses move towards building highly available, fault-tolerant, zero downtime applications to make the user experience and performance smoother and better. One of the essential steps in that process is containerization and orchestration of an application. A Container Monitoring process is as vital as containerizing your application.

4 Reasons Why Organizations are Ditching the Microsoft 365 SLA for an XLA

Written by Nick Cavalancia, Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter MVP The increase in reliance upon Office 365 as an organization’s digital workspace has led many organizations to measure Office 365 against how well users interact with it rather than if it’s running.

3 Ways to Improve JavaScript Applications

In January we brought Release Health to JavaScript. This month we’ve been thinking about the overall experience for JavaScript developers, some could call it JavaScript Jebruary. Think back to your last frustrating experience. It was probably caused by slow page loads or getting dizzy from staring at the ever-ending spinner. One survey showed that the average desktop load time on a webpage was 10.3 seconds and on mobile, it was 27.3 seconds.

How to monitor NVIDIA GPU metrics with Elastic Observability

Graphical processing units, or GPUs, aren’t just for PC gaming. Today, GPUs are used to train neural networks, simulate computational fluid dynamics, mine Bitcoin, and process workloads in data centers. And they are at the heart of most high-performance computing systems, making the monitoring of GPU performance in today's data centers just as important as monitoring CPU performance.

11 Network Traffic Terms to Know

Every industry loves its terms and jargon. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “I’ve always said that one of my core competencies is getting the most bang for my buck out of the sweat equity I put in during my 9-to-5.” Sure, the sentence doesn’t really make any sense, but it sounds good enough when you say it. And that’s just the point jargon tends to make. The IT industry is no different.