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Network monitoring and alerting provide the foundation for efficient IT operations and cyber resilience. By keeping track of the status and performance of network infrastructure and applications, network monitoring tools can automatically generate alerts when defined thresholds are exceeded or specific events occur. These network monitoring alerts allow IT teams to detect outages, performance degradation, and potential security incidents so they can respond swiftly to minimize disruption.

Incompatible hardware is a common cause of application failures for distributed teams. Most teams depend on containerization tools like Docker to prevent these failures. But is there any way to automate the deployment of Docker images more efficiently and intuitively? In this article, I will show you how simple it is to do this by combining CircleCI and Microsoft Azure to build a CI/CD pipeline for a Dockerized Spring Boot project.

We’re happy to announce a landmark 320% growth in 2023! VictoriaMetrics, our open source time series database and monitoring solution, already hit 268 million downloads this year (still counting), and received close to 13,000 stars on GitHub.

In the ever-evolving and fast-changing landscape of cloud computing and modern software development, achieving 360-degree visibility into your critical business services, applications and infrastructure is essential. This is where observability comes into play. Observability, especially in a cloud-based or cloud-native environment, has become a critical aspect of maintaining and optimizing complex systems and services.

Last year, the US Navy’s Capstone Design Concept for Information Superiority provided digital modernization guidance for the Department of the Navy (DON). The document sets forth the overarching goal: to “securely move any information from anywhere to anywhere” in order to achieve information superiority. The design concept also highlights two outcomes: customer experience and operational resilience.

For most of the past year, we here at InfluxData focused on shipping the latest version of InfluxDB. To date, we launched three commercial products (InfluxDB Cloud Serverless, InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated, and InfluxDB Clustered), with more open source options on the way. All the while, we claimed that this latest version of InfluxDB surpasses anything we built before.

Companies used to have an easier time complying with regulations, but compliance has really never been a straightforward endeavor. In the past, there was one set of rules for businesses to obey, the local rules in the place where companies do business. If the business expanded into new parts of the world, they would have to comply with new rules, but these would apply only to those new territories. The global economy means an end to this approach.

As companies expand their operations, they transition from ad hoc to strategic approaches in their quest for optimal IT service management. Frameworks like ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) play pivotal roles in this endeavor.

In the earlier days of the internet, organizations faced resource allocation challenges when running applications on physical servers. They initially resorted to running individual applications on separate physical servers, which was costly and not scalable. As the internet continued to evolve, organizations sought more efficient ways to manage their applications and workloads.

GitHub is one of the most popular version control systems used today, allowing developers to collaborate on projects and quickly deploy their code. However, deploying code through GitHub can also be time-consuming and risky if not done properly. In this blog, we’ll cover how IT teams can reach across the aisle to your colleagues in development to accelerate and protect their GitHub deployment by integrating with the service management software you already use.