Learn to monitor host metrics with OpenTelemetry. Discover setup tips, common pitfalls, and best practices for effective observability.

Explore how Prometheus Alertmanager simplifies alert handling, reducing fatigue by smartly grouping and routing notifications for your team.

These days, where businesses are more reliant on technology than ever before, ensuring operational continuity is critical. At the heart of this effort is enterprise incident management, a discipline that ensures organizations can effectively handle unplanned disruptions and restore services as quickly as possible.

Learn how the Kubernetes Metrics Server helps monitor resource usage like CPU and memory, ensuring smooth cluster performance and scalability.

Check out these straightforward tips to manage your metrics and logs better. You can keep your monitoring effective while cutting down on costs!

Modern businesses rely on a variety of external services to support their operations, including APIs, cloud platforms, CDNs, payment gateways, and more. Whether it's pulling data from an external API, using a cloud service for storage, or integrating a third-party tool for analytics, these services help achieve many business objectives. Given their criticality, it’s important to have a reliable mechanism for monitoring external services.

A comprehensive guide showing how to use PrometheusRemoteWriteExporter to send metrics from OpenTelemetry to Prometheus compatible backends.

As the IT landscape evolves, businesses face increasingly complex challenges related to system availability, data integrity, and customer satisfaction. One of the most pressing dilemmas is how to manage incidents effectively—deciding between reactive and proactive incident response approaches. Both methodologies have their own merits and pitfalls, but the decision can significantly influence how efficiently an organization handles IT disruptions and maintains operational continuity.

Get a clear understanding of log analytics—what it is, why it matters, and how it helps you keep your systems running efficiently by analyzing key data from your infrastructure.

Downtime isn’t just about systems going offline. It’s about how well your business can adapt and keep moving forward. Whether it’s a minor glitch or a large-scale outage, it affects revenue, productivity, and the trust your customers place in your services. For instance, in July 2024, CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform faced an outage that cost Fortune 500 companies $5.4 billion. Businesses that had proactive strategies recovered faster, minimizing the damage.