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Does your IT department perform re-actively to problems as they occur or are they proactive, attempting to head off problems before they occur? Sadly, many IT departments are reactive because they lack the proper IT organization strategies to use technology and apps to become proactive. Taking a reactive approach is ineffective and affects productivity and the potential growth of your business.

Compared to other years, 2020 has been a lot different in every single aspect; from how we all interacted to how we operated, everything changed. It was the year where the adjective "unprecedented" was overused. As the world embraced remote work policies, the only thing that remained unchanged was the fact that we operated uninterrupted and our customer support kept churning out replies to customers’ questions. It was business as usual for us.

2020 might be a year many of us want to forget, but this year, we also unveiled a variety of new products and features worth remembering. For the Logz.io team, 2020 was a year full of innovation as we worked to continuously improve our product and complete our unified observability vision. We also launched a variety of new capabilities for Logz.io Log Management, Infrastructure Monitoring, Cloud SIEM, and Distributed Tracing, that make our product faster, smarter, and more cost-efficient.

Troubleshooting Network problems in a timely manner is extremely critical for maintaining network performance and delivering advanced network services within an organization. For network engineers and administrators, troubleshooting network bandwidth related issues can be achieved by taking advantage of existing flow technologies within the routers and switches. By using NetFlow, monitoring network traffic not only becomes much simpler but also provides broader visibility within the network.

2020 was a year we all will remember. The whole world got an experience like never before. At VirtualMetric we have always believed in a global team with no borders. This year almost every company joined us in the remote work approach. Despite the challenges we were surrounded by, our team had a productive year. We not only saved our entire crew but hired more talented people to our VirtualMetric family, which helped us to achieve our ambitious goals.

Systemd logs, without exemption, can be monitored in this proof of concept that we will see next. But what is systemd and how does it work? I will tell you in advance that I do not want to create any controversies, I will keep my opinions on systemd.

As the customer experience has moved almost entirely online, finding and fixing issues before they impact your conversions, retention, and revenues has become an increasingly complex task. In this article, two real-world examples are presented from the gaming and eCommerce industry that showcase the limitations of static thresholds and the impact that has on customer experience.

Web design is creative and time-consuming at the same time. But sometimes, selling a design, a template, or a ready to use website can get challenging. It might not prove to be as much of a revenue generator as one would like, and there could be several reasons for it. For one, the justified asking price might get slightly high due to the scale of investment and time involved, and thus, buyers might move to other vendors.