Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

When setting up an Elasticsearch cluster, one of the most common use cases is to ingest and search through logs. This blog post focuses on getting a benchmark that will tell you how well your cluster will handle your workload. It allows you to create a reproducible environment for testing things out. Do you want to change the mapping of something, drop some fields, alter the ingest pipeline?

Choosing the right observability setup isn’t just a checkbox—it affects how quickly you can detect issues, debug them, and keep your systems reliable. CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry take different paths to that goal: one is a managed service tightly coupled with AWS, the other a flexible, open-source framework that's becoming a go-to in modern monitoring stacks.

When Solr performance degrades, everyone notices - except maybe your monitoring system. The right metrics can alert you to problems before your users start complaining. This guide walks through the essential Solr metrics that matter for production deployments.

For years, network operations have relied on complex query languages that demand specialized knowledge. Extracting insights from network data often meant writing intricate commands in formats like SQL, a skill reserved for seasoned IT professionals. But what if anyone, regardless of expertise, could ask a simple question and get immediate, accurate answers from their network?

DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) from Broadcom is a comprehensive solution for monitoring an organization’s entire IT infrastructure. The product provides IT administrators and operations teams with a centralized view of their infrastructure to ensure availability and performance of servers, network devices, storage systems, virtualization environments, applications, and cloud services.

For today’s enterprises, ensuring optimized network connectivity and robust network security represent key imperatives. Given that, it makes sense that there’s rapidly growing use of solutions like secure access service edge (SASE). In fact, the SASE market is expected to grow to $5.9 billion by 2028. SASE delivers converged network and security capabilities. SASE is a cloud-based offering that is primarily delivered on an as-a-service basis.

In April I worked on a behind the scenes refactor, webhooks for status pages, a new endpoint, and more.