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SD-WAN is a reliable, fast, and secure WAN network. In this guide, you’ll learn some best practices for planning, monitoring, analyzing, and managing modern SD-WANs.

In this article, we will take a look at what Graphite and Grafana are and what they are used for. Some people might mix these two up, but they do completely different jobs when creating a monitoring system. Let’s take a look these tools in more depth.

In the observability space, it seems like everyone is talking about how to reduce costs and control the explosion of Prometheus metrics. It’s no wonder — our recent analysis of user environments suggests 20% to 50% of metrics generated are never used, but users are still stuck paying for them.

I’ve been a firmware engineer at two wearable companies in the past, Pebble and Fitbit, and there was always one class of customer support tickets and user complaints that never went away: issues around battery life. It was a constant game of whack-a-mole with every new firmware version introducing a battery regression.