Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. It assists in identifying where important events happened during the loading process. They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site.

What Are the ITIL Change Categories?

ITIL is widely considered the gold standard when it comes to IT Service Management (ITSM) best practices and some of the most successful companies in the business have been using it and its multiple iterations over the years. Though we won’t go into detail as to what ITIL is (we’ve got a Definitive ITIL Guide for those who want a complete rundown), it could be quickly defined as a set of suggestions, best practices, and different approaches of how to do ITSM.

Supporting, Extending, and Protecting Virtual Environments

Virtualization remains the key technology of the data center. It's also been the foundational technology that allowed cloud to proliferate. In modern environments, to get the most out of cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud, organizations need to stay on top of the latest developments in virtualization. Watch this On-Demand event to learn about the latest technologies in virtualization and virtualization-adjacent areas, like containers, software-defined storage, software-defined networking, the software-defined data center, and more!

Three communications best practices for incident handlers

The importance of well-managed communications when handling IT and security incidents cannot be overstated. If updates are not communicated in a timely and accurate manner, misunderstandings, misalignment, and costly errors will occur. Not to mention, resolution will be prolonged. And if highly sensitive information is communicated to those who should not be privy to such, then the risk of legal ramifications is high, as would be the damage.

A sleek new trace filter and trace details tab, 50+ contributors in our tribe - SigNal 10

One who moves the hill sets off by taking away the rocks. This is our 10th monthly update, and looking back at it, I can’t help feeling proud of our consistent efforts. Numerous releases, GitHub issues, sprints, and standups have brought us here. And it’s incredible to see what small teams with purpose can build with a consistent effort. Without further ado, let’s see what our 10th edition has to offer.

Netdata Meetup: Real World Scenario on How to Install and Monitor from Scratch

In our first Netdata Meetup, Thiago Marques will present and show you how to install Netdata from scratch on a specific host and demonstrate how to understand navigating through the many, in-depth Netdata dashboards. Thiago will also cover understanding metric distribution. Monitoring is not only to visualize collected data, which is why we will show where host notifications are, and how to access A.I. to simplify even more the correlation between issues and hardware/software.