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Tags: set once, access everywhere

Tags are essential for aggregating and contextualizing monitoring data across your infrastructure; they enable you to monitor your entire system at a high level, drill down to individual services for more comprehensive analysis, and easily correlate data from every application component. Implementing a consistent and effective tag schema for your applications can be challenging, especially as they grow in complexity.

Progressive Delivery- Using feature flags & observability to ship confidently

Level up your deployments for better resiliency and reliability. After 15 years, the basic revelations of the CI/CD revolution are no longer news—small-batch changes with more frequent releases tend to be more stable and recover faster than lengthy big-bang release cycles. Automated is better than manual, instrumentation is key, and speed is critical. But the promise doesn't stop there.

CMDB

The service desk is full of data that can improve service delivery. Tracking relationships and record history through a configuration management database is a great way to leverage this data. Watch this video to learn more about the visual CMDB in SolarWinds Service Desk and how to maximize it within ITIL practices.

Five Prometheus exporters best practices to increase your productivity

The following Prometheus exporters best practices will help you implement a monitoring solution based on Prometheus, and will also increase your productivity. Prometheus is one of the foundations of the cloud-native environment. It has become the de-facto standard for visibility in Kubernetes environments, creating a new category called Prometheus monitoring.

Investing in Netdata: a growth story

I’m excited to announce an extension to Netdata’s series A funding in the amount of $14.2M, bringing the total amount of funding to $31M. We’re thrilled to share the news; the additional funding will help us continue building the future of health monitoring and performance troubleshooting. In case you missed it, our mission is to redefine infrastructure monitoring. Our unique approach to building the right solution with and for the community is no easy task.

SquaredUp for SCOM - Licensing - Introduction

Welcome to the SquaredUp for SCOM Licensing Overview video series, in this video series we are going to show you the difference between the Essentials, Enterprise, and EAM license tiers. We will take you through the different license tiers for SquaredUp for SCOM and we will explore the different tiles and features available in each license tier. Reference

Monitoring vs Observability: What's the Difference?

Monitoring has never been simple, but there was a time when it was simpler. You had a device you could collect data from; you knew the metrics you needed to monitor, and if something went wrong, you could find the root cause. But as IT becomes increasingly and exponentially more complex, more devices, more environments, more things to monitor, more updates, more data, more everything; monitoring in general needs to grow with it.

How Containerized Applications Increase Speed & Efficiency

Most modern applications today are being designed as a set of microservices with each service running as an independent application. This simply implies that one large application is broken down into small Apps running independently and only communicating with each other. This of course makes it much easier to build and maintain Apps but also offers way more value when combined with containerization technology.