Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Infrastructure monitoring is used to collect health and performance data from servers, virtual machines, containers, databases, and other backend components in a tech stack.

Business, as we know it today, is one of the oldest human activities. Because there is always a need, there is always an opportunity to satisfy this need and increase business relations. This dynamic of demand and supply is likely the most basic business principle. Even in the current online business environment, this principle continues to guide how the most successful businesses boost their visibility and growth.

AIOps (artificial intelligence in IT operations) in monitoring refers to the convergence of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to make IT monitoring a responsive, intelligent, and agile business function. AIOps is not an alternative to DevOps but a great partner to it that provides intelligent insights when integrated with every stage of the cycle.

Digital transformation has been foundational to any forward-looking business and organizational strategy for many years, but never more so than today. In the digital era, centering an innovative approach to technology at the heart of your business is essential to credibility, impact, growth and efficiency. However, ensuring readiness to adapt to future market, customer or employee needs demands continuous effort and re-appraisal.

Small confession: we currently use the term 'post-mortem' in incident.io despite preferring the term 'incident debrief'. Unless you have particularly serious incidents, the link to death here really isn’t helping anyone. However, we're optimising for familiarity, so we're sticking to the term 'post-mortem' here. Ask any engineer and they’ll tell you that a post-mortem is a positive thing (despite the scary name).

After a mortgage payment, energy costs are typically the largest household expense. In my case it was an easy decision to install solar panels, but I wanted to perform in-depth analyses with historical data. Deploying monitoring sensors was straightforward; collecting and processing the raw data became the main challenge. Telegraf and InfluxDB are ideal choices for managing time series data. Although I had no prior experience, a Docker instance of Telegraf was onboarded in no time.

As more companies adopt SaaS services over on-premise delivery models, there is a natural concern around data security and platform availability. Words on a vendor’s website can provide insights to prospective customers on the process and policies that companies have in place to alleviate these concerns. However, the old adage of “actions speak louder than words” does apply. Trust in a website’s words only goes so far.

We all know that cloud and SaaS adoption continues to grow rapidly, often outpacing budgets. In fact, spending on IaaS and SaaS exceeded budgets in more than 40% of organizations in 2021. As a result, network traffic is now spending much more time on the internet than in our own data centers. The internet has become the new enterprise network.