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We recently made the Catchpoint Terraform provider available in the Terraform Registry, allowing our customers to manage their Catchpoint IPM tests with minimal configuration, enabling developers, SREs and DevOps teams to seamlessly integrate their Catchpoint data with Terraform.

Technology focused on building a more sustainable future continues to advance at incredible speed. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and real-time analytics are opening up new horizons for renewable energy. This post looks at the intersections of innovation and ecology, where small chips and sensors play major roles in the renewable energy sector.

Last Tuesday, August 13 was the second Tuesday of the month, and for anyone running a network or working in IT, you know what that means: another Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Doug Madory looks at how the resulting traffic surge can be analyzed using Kentik’s OTT Service Tracking.

Today I’ll cover a few points on DEX vs. DEM. Many organizations have adopted Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Monitoring, and many Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), some both. Sometimes the terms are used interchangeably, and sometimes these methodologies overlap. I’ll cover a few points that should hopefully clarify the differences and the overlaps.

Datadog and Splunk are leading monitoring and observability platforms that offer comprehensive solutions for modern IT environments. Both tools share a wide range of features, making it challenging to choose between them. This article compares Datadog and Splunk on crucial aspects like application performance monitoring (APM), log management, search capabilities, and more to help determine which platform best fits your organization.

Managed service providers (MSPs) are currently facing a critical challenge: efficiently managing and monitoring a diverse array of endpoints for multiple clients. At the core of effective network management is the seamless tracking of customer endpoints. The availability of device templates at the administrative level within Site24x7 is an advantage for many MSPs.

As developers (and as front end developers in particular), we usually talk about web performance in the context of measuring what happens when we start to see things appear in a browser window, and when we can consume content or interact with the page.

We’re happy to announce VictoriaMetrics Cloud, a hosted monitoring platform and managed service for metrics that allows organizations to monitor and store large amounts of time-series data, without having to run the underlying infrastructure. At a time when almost every enterprise relies on complex data to run, VictoriaMetrics Cloud delivers the power of the popular VictoriaMetrics open-source time series solution, which has reached 750 million downloads, with enterprise features.

In the world of container orchestration, Kubernetes has emerged as the go-to platform for managing and scaling applications. One of the key features that make Kubernetes so powerful is its ability to intelligently schedule pods across nodes in a cluster. Node affinity is a crucial concept in this scheduling process, allowing developers to influence where pods are placed based on node characteristics.

Last Updated on 15 hours The recent outage caused by Crowdstrike on Jul 18, 2024 has proved how the fallout was unforeseen and unthinkable, across the globe. In this era of zero trust, the leading cyber security company Crowdstrike sent an update to its Falcon sensor agent and another IT leader Microsoft which had Crowdstrike sensors installed crashed with Blue Screen of Death(BSOD) as soon as the update was received caused by a null pointer issue.