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What's the difference between an event vs alert vs incident in IT operations?

Are you confused by the difference between events, alerts and incidents in IT operations? It’s easy to get mixed up when you’re getting started in IT operations because of these concepts’ overlapping nature and interconnectivity. However, it’s important to know the differences so you can accurately categorize and respond to various IT issues and ensure resources are allocated effectively.

Product Managing to Prevent Burnout

I’m currently working on a small team within Honeycomb where we’re building an ambitious new feature. We’re excited—heck, the whole company is—and even our customers are knocking on our door. The energy is there. With all this excitement, I’ve been thinking about a risk that—if I'm not careful—could severely hinder my team's ability to ship on time, celebrate success, and continue work after launch: burnout.

Applying the 7 Guiding Principles of ITIL 4 to the Service Desk

You may be familiar with the 7 guiding principles in the ITIL framework. You may not be as familiar with how you could apply the principles in your service desk configuration. Here are some common service desk scenarios demonstrating how to practice these guiding principles in your organization.

Quickly remediate issues in your Azure applications with Datadog Workflow Automation

Datadog Workflow Automation speeds up incident response and remediation for DevOps, SRE, and security teams by enabling them to automatically run predefined task sequences whenever specific alerts or security signals are triggered. After the feature’s initial release in 2023, Datadog is now excited to announce a significant expansion of its Workflow Automation capabilities with Azure actions, allowing engineers to create automated workflows for their Azure resources for the first time.

Lightrun LogOptimizer Gets A Developer Productivity and Logging Cost Reduction Boost

Lightrun’s LogOptimizer stands as a groundbreaking automated solution for log optimization and cost reduction in logging. An integral part of the Lightrun IDE plugins, this tool empowers developers to swiftly scan their source code—be it a single file or entire projects—to identify and replace log lines with Lightrun’s dynamic logs, all within seconds.

Implementing OTEL for Kubernetes Monitoring

Kubernetes is a top container orchestration platform. The Kubernetes clusters manage everything much from collecting to storing vast magnitudes of data from your multiple applications. It is this very property that can sometimes boom into an unending data pile later on. Imagine a large warehouse of apparel, it has every size of clothing for men, women, and children. Now if you are asked to pick out one particular type from it within a small time frame, I know you will totally dread it.

How to Scan Network for IP Addresses? - Guide With 6 Best Tools

In an age of connectivity, identifying IP addresses within your network is crucial for maintaining, managing, and protecting your network infrastructure. Your network may include printers, routers, IoT devices, computers, and servers. Trying to identify them manually can be daunting, as it may take time and be error prone. Thus, you need an efficient solution to scan IP addresses. How to Scan a Network for All IP Addresses? Scanning a Network With IP Scanners 6 Best IP Scanners 1.

What's New at Kentik, Episode 2

Join Leon Adato in the second episode of "What's New at Kentik" as he shares the latest updates and insights from Kentik. In this episode, Leon discusses Kentik's participation at AWS re:Invent, highlighting the significance of such events for networking and business development. He shares some new capabilities of Kentik's Data Explorer query API, making it more robust and user-friendly.