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Making the Switch to Hosted Monitoring

Implementing a monitoring solution is no small task; with your company's data growing, it can feel impossible. Often, small teams develop their own monitoring infrastructure because it is more cost-effective than a platform. But when your business grows, your data does, too. Monitoring can quickly become a bigger challenge than a small team can handle, and some companies need more resources to hire a developer dedicated to their monitoring.

From Basic Monitoring to Modern Observability: Shifting Right and Observability as Code

I've been in the observability market long before it even had that name. Over the years, observability has undergone a significant transformation. As someone who has witnessed these changes firsthand, I can attest to the dynamic nature of this field. In the early days, it was largely about basic monitoring: tracking system metrics, lots of logs, and simple alerts.

Visualise your Icinga Cluster with Clustergraph

This is a guest blogpost from Dave Kempe from Sol1 At Sol1, we provide services around scaling and automating Icinga rollouts for customers. In large environments, we make heavy use of the excellent distributed monitoring features of Icinga to build redundant clusters across datacenters. Icinga uses the object types of Endpoints and Zones to designate the cluster layout, where a Zone contains Endpoints, and may have a parent Zone. Using this logic, a Zone with no parents is the top level zone.

The Best Synthetic Monitoring Tools in 2024

Want to learn more about the best synthetic monitoring tools in 2024? You’ve come to the right place. Synthetic monitoring refers to the process of using a software to test and evaluate the functionality of an application or a website. By following a script, synthetic monitoring mimics the behavior of a user, navigating through pages or filling out forms.

NiCE MongoDB Management Pack 1.1 for Microsoft SCOM

NiCE IT Management Solutions is pleased to announce the release of the NiCE MongoDB Management Pack v1.1 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). This latest version introduces several key enhancements, making it even easier to monitor and manage MongoDB environments.