Voice over IP, or VoIP for short, revolutionized telephony. Phones based upon old PBX-style switching and old-fashioned telephone wires are rare. Networks, the Internet and the IP protocol changed everything. Years, in fact, decades ago when Voice over IP started, the economics were astounding and the flexibility amazing. Sadly, the voice quality was often atrocious, which is a no can do for businesses of any sort. As network speed grew and voice technology improved, call quality improved.

The OpenTelemetry (OTel) project offers numerous components and instrumentations that support different languages and telemetry signals. However, this flexibility can be overwhelming, and new users often struggle to choose the right components and configure them properly for their specific use cases. To address this, OpenTelemetry defines the concept of a distribution, a tailored and customized version of OpenTelemetry components.

Doug Tidwell is the Director of Content at Altinity, responsible for creating useful content for ClickHouse users in general and Altinity customers in particular. He has more than 30 years of experience in databases, CI/CD systems, development tools, and middleware. When it comes to visualizing, monitoring, and logging ClickHouse clusters, there’s no easier way to accomplish all three than with Grafana Cloud, the open and composable observability stack powered by open source.

Intelligent Automation (IA) is the next-generation technology that combines Robotic Process Automation with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. While traditional automation handles repetitive, rule-based tasks, IA takes it a step ahead by enabling systems to learn, adapt, and make real-time decisions.

Running Apache Kafka in production? You know monitoring is a must. But with all those metrics coming at you, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds. After a while, you start to figure out that monitoring everything isn’t really worth it. It’s about focusing on a few key metrics that give you the biggest bang for your buck. Here’s a breakdown of the most important Kafka performance metrics to keep your eye on.

One thing most IT and network operations teams continue to contend with is more: more technologies, more vendors, more devices, and more complexity. Given these realities, its vital for network operations teams to minimize operational overhead wherever and whenever possible.

Network operations teams face challenges in managing modern, multi-vendor networks due to the need to collect and analyze data from various sources. Teams need to work with logs, events, and metrics, and this data is often scattered across different tools and locations. This fragmentation leads to inefficiency and complexity, as operators must switch between tools and interfaces to troubleshoot issues.

If you use the programming language C# there’s a chance that you’re already familiar with.NET (pronounced ‘dot net’), an open-source application platform supported by Microsoft. C# is the programming language for.NET but the platform can run programs written in multiple languages. Microsoft’s ambition with.NET is to offer developers one platform to solve any problem.

We sat down with Ankit, CTO and co-founder at SigNoz to get his insights on the product’s developments and what's on the horizon. He shared valuable perspectives on how SigNoz is enhancing the user experience, focusing on customer feedback, and building new features.

Today, we’re excited to introduce two key features that will help users with alerts in SigNoz - Alerts History and Scheduled Maintenance. These features are designed to help teams gain deeper insights into their alerts, better manage recurring issues, and streamline alert silencing during planned downtimes. Let’s dig in deeper.