Dynatrace and AppDynamics are two of the most well-known Observability and monitoring tools. Even though they share many features, they have several differences that might make you choose one over the other. Dynatrace is great for comprehensive system performance monitoring. It covers everything from infrastructure and application performance to log management and real user monitoring. AppDynamics, on the other hand, focuses more on application performance and business transactions.

Apple's announcements at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference have surprised everyone with new capabilities designed to make the IT admin's life easier for managing and securing devices. As we expected, Apple kept expanding declarative management configurations and capabilities for securing iPhones and iPads and robust management of macOS in the enterprise.

Drowning in data from complex environments? Ditch the reactive approach. Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) empowers proactive management with comprehensive observability. According to Gartner, IT spending will continue to mount sky-high despite the global economic instability; the IT expenditure is predicted to surge by 8.6% in 2024. Manual monitoring often fails to keep up with the complexity of modern IT environments, leaving critical issues undetected.

Grafana Alloy 1.3 is here! First introduced earlier this year, Alloy is our open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. It has native pipelines for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus telemetry formats, and it uses the same components, code, and concepts that were previously introduced in Grafana Agent Flow. This new release introduces live debugging, enhancing debugging capabilities across key components, which are the building blocks of Alloy.

Stand-up meetings are a cornerstone for any engineering team. When done right, they can make a huge difference in keeping everyone on the same page, fostering collaboration, and building a strong team culture. However, getting them right can be a bit tricky. Drawing from our own experience of running engineering stand-ups at Zenduty, and insights from some of the best engineering managers in my network, I'd love to share some tips and insights on how to make your stand-ups effective.

Weigh up three popular ways to protect your data in transit—host level encryption (TLS/SSH), MACsec, and IPsec—to fortify your network security. Encryption in transit refers to protecting data while it moves from one place to another, in contrast to “encryption at rest” which is used to protect data where it is stored. In this blog we’ll look at a few common options for encryption in transit, and the pros and cons of each from a network perspective.

As codebases mature, they grow in complexity. As time goes on, higher complexity increases the cost of changing and scaling a system. Scalability is an essential feature of enterprise software. End-to-end integration testing is not a very scalable process, especially when you are dealing with multiple systems.

ServiceNow is a popular IT service management platform that helps organizations track and manage enterprise-level IT processes, such as on-prem infrastructure management, customer support, and incident response. By using ServiceNow’s configuration management database (CMDB), organizations can easily centralize and manage information about all the IT objects they own in order to track and maintain them more efficiently.

The infrastructure must be “invisible” to the user, but visible to IT strategists to ensure the performance and service levels required by the business, where observability (as part of SRE or site reliability engineering) is essential to understand the internal state of a system based on its external results. For effective observability, there are four key pillars: metrics, events, logs, and traces, which are summarized in the acronym MELT.

Most enjoy the peace of mind cloud backups offer for all the damage the costs can do to their wallets. Microsoft Azure offers Azure Backup service to safely backup your data on Microsoft Azure cloud, allowing you to store Azure VMs and even on-premise machines and workloads. But Azure prices can be confusing, and Azure Backup is no different. To best understand how much you’re paying and why you’re paying that much, read on! Source: Azure.