Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Data centers are essential. Not only do they handle the network traffic from your organization to your end-users, but data centers also enable seamless communication and collaboration with various business stakeholders. This makes data center monitoring all the more imperative.

For 20 years, Ubuntu has been at the cutting edge of technology. Pioneers looking to innovate new technologies and ideas choose Ubuntu as the medium to do it, whether they’re building devices for space, deploying a fleet of robots or building up financial infrastructure. The rise of machine learning is no exception and has encouraged people to develop their models on Ubuntu at different scales.

Autonomous IT operations requires 100 percent visibility of hybrid IT environments. With that in mind, OpsRamp, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, today announced a new network observability solution to help enterprise IT organizations, global systems integrators (GSIs) and managed service providers (MSPs) better manage the mission-critical network infrastructure that connects and powers their hybrid cloud systems.

Imagine an Everywhere Work environment in which IT problems seem to magically resolve themselves before end users even realize there were issues. Printers miraculously start working again. Login issues vanish. Access to critical applications is seamless.

Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) have increasingly found their way to the center of engineering operations. As the new engineering system of record, IDPs make it possible to align and enforce standards while unlocking safe developer self-service. Of course, oft-cited benefits like removing friction and improving consistency might feel intangible or even duplicative to other tools in your stack. So how should engineering leaders think about evaluating IDPs?

Starting a few weeks ago, according to npmtrends.com, Playwright surpassed Cypress in npm downloads, indicating that more projects are starting with Playwright as their preferred automation framework.

In DevOps and IT operations, conducting a thorough postmortem after an incident is crucial for continuous improvement. This article explores best practices for creating effective postmortems, ensuring that your incident analysis won't be forgotten as soon as the danger has passed but will be comprehensive and actionable.

Organizations are turning to Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for scalable and cost-effective hosting solutions. Google offers a robust VPS option tailored to various organizational needs. Understanding Google VPS pricing can help you make informed decisions and optimize your cloud costs. This guide will explain Google VPS pricing, explore its uses, and provide tips for optimizing these costs with CloudZero.

Failure to communicate scheduled maintenance often results in unexpected downtime, significantly impacting the user experience by causing frustration and disrupting workflow. This not only leads to user confusion but also burdens IT support teams with a surge of customer queries. Gain deeper insights into effective strategies and best practices for communicating schedule maintenance activities clearly to stakeholders through this blog.

If your application is as busy as a highway with multiple lanes, intersections, and exits, imagine trying to track the journey of a single car from start to finish. Sounds tricky, right? Well, that's what happens when you're dealing with modern, complex software systems. Enter distributed tracing, your trusty GPS for navigating the intricate web of microservices and dependencies within your applications.