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Professional Service Automation (PSA) is increasingly critical for fast-growing enterprises. PSA tools integrate various aspects of business management, including project management, resource allocation, and billing, into a cohesive system. This enables companies to automate their service delivery, enhancing performance and scalability. Moreover, PSA provides valuable data analytics and insights, aiding in informed decision-making and strategic planning.

Microservices are fantastic for agility and innovation, but the trade-off is complex service management and ownership. With hundreds of interconnected services, troubleshooting and Incident Response can become a potential blocker. The traditional siloed approach to service ownership and the increasing deployment makes service management more complex.

Elasticsearch, or the ELK stack, is a popular log analytics solution. The Loki project was started at Grafana Labs in 2018. Grafana leads the development of Loki, while Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch. In this article, we will do a detailed comparison between these two tools for log analytics. Log data helps application owners debug their applications while also playing a critical role in cyber security.

Windows updates are essential to keeping your system safe with access to the latest tools and features. Updates provide bug fixes, performance improvements, and, perhaps most importantly, security patches that protect your device from potential threats. Still, there are a few reasons why you may want to disable Windows updates—either temporarily or permanently. Are you wondering how to turn Windows updates off? Find out all the details below.

In today's world, your web applications must work properly to capture your audience's attention and keep them on your website for longer than a few seconds. It's a battle to keep potential customers engaged, and you'll lose out on valuable leads if your website isn't performing optimally. Before synthetic transaction monitoring (STM), developers used consumer data to examine their website or app's performance closely. Now, they can replicate behavior using synthetic scripts and models.

Percepio DevAlert is a powerful observability solution for embedded software developers providing alerts on anomalies in your software, such as errors, crashes, and cybersecurity warnings. The alerts provide deep observability into the device software behavior for diagnosing the issues, such as core dumps, software traces, logs and any other device data you choose to include. There are several use-cases for this kind of observability.

If you’re doing cloud operations right, your cloud needs are going to change over time. Cloud scaling can help you add cloud resources when you need them and retire or recycle them when you don’t. Cloud scaling is great for meeting traffic demands, accommodating demanding workloads, and controlling the chaos of cloud ops. But for all the flexibility that cloud scaling offers, it can also introduce liabilities in your cloud infrastructure.

At Logz.io, we recently announced the release of App 360, a new solution that aims to shift the paradigm around application performance monitoring (APM) systems. To better give our customers a look at the new solution within the Logz.io Open 360™ platform for essential observability, we recently hosted a webinar explaining App 360 in greater depth and provided a detailed product demonstration. Let’s take a closer look at the key highlights and insights we shared during the webinar.