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Introducing Datadog Synthetics

Datadog is pleased to announce the upcoming availability of Synthetics, a whole new layer of visibility on the Datadog platform. By monitoring your applications and API endpoints via simulated user requests, Synthetics helps you ensure uptime, identify regional issues, and track application performance. By unifying Synthetics with your metrics, traces, and logs, Datadog allows you to observe how all your systems are performing as experienced by your users.

Elastic Stack Version 6.5: Feature Tour

The Elastic Stack 6.5 is packed full of features like cross-cluster replication of Elasticsearch data, Canvas (for presenting live Elasticsearch data), Kibana spaces (for organizing dashboards and visualizations), the Infrastructure UI, Beats Central Management, the Rollups UI, Functionbeat (for serverless shipping of your cloud data), enhancements for Elastic APM, and more.

HP Operations Manager: Legendary multifaceted software

We have talked about reviews of legendary software in the area of monitoring, such as the colossus IBM® Tivoli® Netcool®. With equal pleasure, and at the request of the editorial team of this blog, today we bring up the second legendary software. That time we directly compared Pandora FMS with that giant, but this time we only refer to common features, because the HP Operations Manager is not currently on sale…

Mass and Emergency Notifications versus Operational Alerting

The area of alerting has very much matured over the past 10 years and there is now a number of specialized vendors in both mass notifications and operational alerting. It can be very difficult to make the right choice for a specific business need. However, it is possible to identify these two main segments and to categorize alerting solutions accordingly for a better decision on fitness for purpose.