Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

What is INP and why you should care

On March 12th 2024, Google is launching a new Core Web Vital metric, Interaction to Next Paint (INP). INP will replace First Input Delay (FID) and will change the way your sites are assessed for performance by Google, which ultimately affects how your sites rank in search engine results. TL;DR: You need to start optimizing for INP today so your sites are not negatively impacted after March 12th.

You Can Solve the Application Waste Problem

If you’re like most companies running large-scale data intensive workloads in the cloud, you’ve realized that you have significant quantities of waste in your environment. Smart organizations implement a host of FinOps activities to ameliorate or address this waste and the cost it incurs, things such as: … and the list goes on. These are infrastructure-level optimizations.

How to Display Grafana Alerts to Your Dashboards | Grafana

💡 Did you know you can display Grafana alerts on your dashboards? Join Senior Developer Advocate Marie Cruz in this quick tutorial to learn how to configure a Grafana alert and link it to your dashboard and panel. ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces.

Handling IT Procurement And Inventory of New Hardware And Software

Software and hardware acquisition is the first stage of the IT asset lifecycle and should be done cost-effectively and organized. To achieve that, you must set in place a well-defined procurement process. With it, you'll have a unified and normalized inventory that lets you know your IT assets in stock and their location, thus providing reliable insights on what you need to purchase and what is vacant or can be relocated.

Observe, Automate and Optimize | SolarWinds Day Virtual Event

You can’t manage what you can’t monitor and observe. IT ecosystem complexity is a part of operating in a hybrid multi-cloud, containerized microservices, digital transformation world, and the complexity is not magically going away. This virtual event shows how SolarWinds is solving what others can’t – abstracting the complexity, increasing visibility, and automating remediation across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-native estates.

Navigating IT Incidents - The Role Of The Status Page

At any moment, a small failure at any point in your complex web of IT systems can trigger an outage. As such, proactively establishing a method of clear and timely end user communication is the crux of effective incident response. For large organizations, these moments of downtime not only carry a massive opportunity cost, but also test the resilience of their operations.

Easy Guide to Monitor Jenkins Jobs Using Telegraf and MetricFire

Monitoring Jenkins jobs and nodes is foundational to maintaining a robust, efficient, and secure CI/CD pipeline. It enables DevOps teams to stay proactive about system health, optimize performance, manage resources effectively, and adhere to security and compliance standards. In this article, we'll detail how to use the Telegraf agent to collect performance metrics from your Jenkins environment, and forward them to a datasource.