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How to Automatically Detect Linux Configuration Drifts

May 30, 2025 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic

When a quick Linux fix during an outage slips through unnoticed, it can silently break compliance and put your infrastructure at risk. In this video, we dive into how ScienceLogic helps IT and security teams detect and resolve these hidden issues automatically—before they become bigger problems. We demonstrate how ScienceLogic identifies unauthorized Linux configuration changes, flags policy violations, and restores compliance through intelligent automation. From configuration drift detection to enriched ServiceNow tickets and automated remediation, it’s all about eliminating the guesswork and staying ahead of risk.

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How to Pinpoint Root Cause in Real Time

May 30, 2025 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic

When systems fail, it’s not just about knowing that something went wrong—it’s about understanding why it happened and pinpointing the root cause fast. ScienceLogic Skylar AI automatically analyzes massive volumes of data, detects patterns, and delivers clear, human-readable insights. The result? Your team knows exactly where to start, acts faster, and keeps issues from escalating.

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Traceparent: How OpenTelemetry Connects Your Microservices

May 30, 2025 By Preeti Dewani In Last9

In a microservices setup, tracking a single request across services quickly gets complex. One service calls another, then a third, and your logs don’t line up. The traceparent header carries context between services, so all parts of a request connect back to the start. For example, when a frontend sends a request to an API, which then calls a database service, traceparent it links those calls in the trace. Without it, you’re left guessing how requests flow.

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Quick Guide to Monitoring Your Podman VM Using OpenTelemetry

May 30, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire

Podman is a modern, open-source container engine developed by Red Hat that serves as a powerful alternative to Docker. It's designed with security, composability, and simplicity in mind. Here’s why it stands out.

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Dashboards, or Launchpads?

May 30, 2025 By Martin Thwaites In Honeycomb

I have a personal vendetta against “dashboards.” Not because they’re not useful—I actually think they’re extremely useful—but rather because they’re generally built with the wrong user in mind, then used by a completely different user, and for a different use case.

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The 12 Best Nagios Alternatives in 2025

May 30, 2025 By Pavithra Parthiban In Atatus

Are you looking for a Nagios alternative? Then you have come to the right place. In this blog, we will go through the top Nagios alternatives available today. But before that, let’s briefly look at what Nagios offers and why some teams might consider switching to another monitoring solution.

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Our latest Pingdom data improvements - to get more from your monitoring

May 30, 2025 By Noorul Huda N In Squared Up

At SquaredUp, we’re obsessed with making monitoring not just powerful, but a genuinely delightful experience for engineers and teams. When we first built our Pingdom plugin, the goal was simple: make website uptime and performance data easy to visualize alongside everything else you care about. But as our users pushed the boundaries—connecting more endpoints, demanding richer insights, and needing faster troubleshooting—we realized our plugin needed to keep up.

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How to Block Chat Widgets During Playwright Tests (Drift, Intercom & More)

May 30, 2025 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping

Chat widgets are great for customer support, but they can wreak havoc on your automated tests. These floating elements often interfere with Playwright tests by covering clickable buttons, triggering unexpected popups, or causing element selection issues. If you've ever had a test fail because a chat widget appeared at the wrong moment, you're not alone. This guide shows you exactly how to block popular chat widgets like Drift, Intercom, Zendesk, and others during your Playwright test runs.

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A Leader, Once Again - Thanks to You

May 30, 2025 By Pedro Bados In Nexthink

The demonstration of sustained excellence is ultimately more impressive and important than any individual breakthrough, though the former often go less celebrated. This week, however, Nexthink is extremely proud to celebrate that we’ve once again been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Tools. It’s a distinction we don’t take for granted—and one we’re honored to have maintained.

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Syslog Implementation: Servers, Integration and Best Practices

May 29, 2025 By Alexandr Bandurchin In Uptrace

Syslog is a fundamental protocol for collecting messages and event data from various devices and applications across a network. Think of it as a universal language that allows your servers, routers, firewalls, and software to send their operational insights to a central logging point. Born from Unix systems, Syslog has evolved to become the industry standard, forming the backbone of effective log management and providing a unified view of your infrastructure's activity.

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