Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Most companies build a resilient system capable of constantly supporting their revenue-generating web applications. However, unforeseen circumstances can occur at any time and cause downtime, making a website unavailable for end users. To ensure a reliable website, it’s important to monitor its availability and performance. Reducing a website’s load time is one of the best ways to provide a seamless user experience.

In today’s Tip of the Day, we are looking at troubleshooting remote end-user experience using Catchpoint’s Endpoint Monitoring solution. According to a recent set of figures from Stanford University, 42% of the U.S. labor force is working from home full-time. Based on their earnings, this group of work-from-home employees accounts for over two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.

When I first started following Charity on Twitter back in early 2019, I was quickly overwhelmed by the new words and concepts she was discussing. I liked the results she described: faster debugging, less alert fatigue, happier users. Those are all things I wanted for my team! But I was hung up on these big polysyllabic words, which stopped me from taking those first steps toward improving our own observability.

Google Operations suite, formerly Stackdriver, is a central repository that receives logs, metrics, and application traces from Google Cloud resources. These resources can include compute engine, app engine, dataflow, dataproc, as well as their SaaS offerings, such as BigQuery. By shipping this data to Elastic, you’ll get a unified view of the performance of resources across your entire infrastructure from cloud to on-prem.

6 Tips to Prepare Your E-Commerce Site for the Biggest Holiday Traffic Surge Ever So it begins. No, we are not talking about the school year, the football season, or a dizzying array of television shows about zombies, detectives, and of course: zombie detectives (seriously, it’s a thing).

In November 2018, chip manufacturer Broadcom announced the completion of its $18.9 billion purchase of infrastructure software company, CA Technologies. While CA’s enterprise software division has seen many changes after the acquisition, the products in their AIOps and Observability portfolio consist of operational intelligence, application performance management, network monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring.

As COVID-19 cases began to rise around the world in March 2020, governments and businesses had no choice but to take extraordinary measures to flatten the curve. As an IT leader, you were likely tasked with helping entire companies transition to remote work all at once. Cubicles were replaced by home offices. Face-to-face meetings were replaced by video calls. Work performance was measured by tasks completed instead of hours worked. Digital connectivity became more important than ever before.

Working together successfully as a team — especially in this increasingly remote world — is all about collaboration. As part of that collaboration, it’s critical that team members have access to the files and programs they need to accomplish their jobs, and that access should be easily revocable for when employees change roles or leave the company. This is achieved through access control, which, simply put, defines who is allowed to access what.

At InfluxData, we’re obsessed with time to awesome — how quickly can you start working productively with time series data? What can we do to make things better? InfluxDB Templates are a great example of this mindset. Back in April, we announced Templates as a way to package up everything you need to monitor a particular technology — Telegraf configurations and InfluxDB Dashboards, Tasks, Alerts, and related artifacts — into a single configuration file.

Some of you may have attended the recent webinar on how to simplify ticket remediation with ML-Powered Analysis. We’re thrilled to announce that we have packaged the new app shown in that demo – the Smart Ticket Insights App for Splunk – and it is now live on Splunkbase!