Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Growing pains: the IT Ops maturity model

Modern IT Ops environments have many moving parts that need to work together well, yet are evolving at different speeds. This gap in maturity creates many problems. In this CTO Perspective, Jason Walker, Chief Customer Officer at BigPanda, discusses why IT Ops teams should prioritize maintaining a common maturity across all their IT operations, and how best to do that.

Simple, scalable deployment for Grafana Loki and Grafana Enterprise Logs

Loki 2.4 and GEL 1.2 introduced a hybrid deployment model that takes the simplicity of running the Loki log aggregation solution as a single binary and introduces an easy path to high availability and scalability. Particularly for organizations running on virtual machine and bare metal (non-Kubernetes) environments, this is a game-changer! Learn more in this tutorial from Grafana Labs Senior Software Engineer Trevor Whitney.

Streamline Issue Management and Communication at Scale: Power Home Remodeling and Sentry

When it comes to managing multiple applications and services, driving alignment and communication across teams can be like herding cats. Too many channels, projects, and cross-functional stakeholders can cause friction that slow down issue management and affect the overall product experience.

Maintaining Operational Sanity Across 100+ AWS Accounts | Eric Mann / Ryan Tomac (Vacasa)

At Vacasa, AWS accounts represent the unit of isolation for distinct applications & services in our software ecosystem, providing security benefits and operational autonomy for our teams as we scale. Managing accounts at this scale requires strong DevOps practices to maintain security, operational sanity, and uniform observability across the system. In this talk, we’ll cover the benefits of such an approach, the practices that make it possible, and the important role Datadog plays.

What is AIOps?

AIOps is an approach to managing the exponential growth of IT operations and the complexity of new technology through the application of artificial intelligence (AI). IT infrastructure increasingly relies on complicated deployments, multi-cloud architectures, and huge amounts of data. Traditionally, the tech industry responds to complexity by applying extra brainpower to the problem, bringing in more engineers, developers, and management.

N-able Backup: The Cloud-First Data Protection Solution

Yes, data volumes are growing, but online backup doesn’t need to be a loss leader—or a break-even solution. Simplify your approach with the N‑able™ Backup solution. Scale with your customers’ growth and turn backup services into a driver of profitability for your business. · Protect your customers’ data, wherever it is.· Minimize human error and improve efficiency.· Deliver higher levels of service.· Outsmart ransomware with direct-to-cloud backups.· Back up more frequently, and archive data longer, at no extra cost.

Istio Log Analysis Guide

Istio has quickly become a cornerstone of most Kubernetes clusters. As your container orchestration platform scales, Istio embeds functionality into the fabric of your cluster that makes monitoring, observability, and flexibility much more straightforward. However, it leaves us with our next question – how do we monitor Istio? This Istio log analysis guide will help you get to the bottom of what your Istio platform is doing.

Detailed Insight, Right on Time: Introducing Scheduled Alerts

Logz.io customers, here’s some big product news that we think you’ll be excited to hear. Scheduled Alerts, an altogether new manner of alerting, is coming your way. That’s right, get ready to utilize a whole new world of alerts that weren’t previously available in the Logz.io platform.

Deploying to production in <5m with our hosted container builder

Fast build times are great, which is why we aim for less than 5m between merging a PR and getting it into production. Not only is waiting on builds a waste of developer time — and an annoying concentration breaker — the speed at which you can deploy new changes has an impact on your shipping velocity. Put simply, you can ship faster and with more confidence when deploying a follow-up fix is a simple, quick change.