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The third quarter of 2019 has seen OpsRamp receive market recognition from three independent analyst firms, Digital Enterprise Journal, 451 Research, and Gartner. Leading media publications, DevOps Online News and ITOps Times, have also highlighted OpsRamp’s capabilities for DevOps and IT Operations Analytics.

Equality is an essential concept when programming, not only in Java but in pretty much all programming languages. After all, much of what we do when writing code has to do with comparing values and then making decisions based on the results of such comparisons.

Tori Kaufmann-Paulman is a Senior Manager of End User Technology and Sales Enablement at Putnam Investment. I had a blast presenting on the joint Nexthink / IDG webinar talking with peer leaders about the future of digital employee experience. To really dig in I encourage you to consider each of these words on its own.

OAuth 2.0 Authentication, as explained by oauth.net, is a “delegation protocol that is used for conveying authorization decisions across a network of web-enabled applications and APIs.” OAuth was created in 2006 by developers from Twitter and Ma.gnolia, a social bookmarking site. Ma.gnolia was looking for a way to use OpenID, along with the Twitter API, to delegate authentication.

Application performance monitoring (APM) dovetails nicely with infrastructure monitoring, allowing you to monitor app performance and end-user satisfaction in context with the rest of your infrastructure. That’s why we unveiled Datadog APM to complement our infrastructure monitoring platform and provide full-stack observability.

Logs provide invaluable information about issues you need to troubleshoot. In some circumstances, that may mean that you have to look back at old logs. For example, you may be running a security audit and need to analyze months-old HTTP request logs for a list of specific IP addresses over a period of time. Or you might need to investigate why a scheduled service never occurred, or run an exhaustive postmortem on incidents that happened over a couple months but that you suspect are related.

As part of building the new Gauge panel in React, we also wanted to update the panel controls, especially the thresholds control. A threshold in the context of Grafana is simply a value that, when exceeded, a condition occurs. An example would be a single stat panel with a green background that changes its background color to red when a threshold is breached.

Here is a small and handy addition for having an extra level of security for the accounts. Two-factor authentication is a widely-used mechanism for making sure that the account is only reachable by you and Uptime Robot now supports it.

Kubernetes has several key differences that push the limits of traditional application monitoring. Due to the distributed ephemeral nature of Kubernetes, most existing solutions fail to give the visibility we might expect, resulting in longer resolution times. Looking at these potential pitfalls can help guide us as we take a fresh look at Kubernetes management and monitoring.