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StatsD is an industry-standard technology stack for monitoring applications and instrumenting any piece of software to deliver custom metrics. The StatsD architecture is based on delivering the metrics via UDP packets from any application to a central statsD server. Although the original StatsD server was written in Node.js, there are many implementations today, with Netdata being one of them.

One of the reasons we selected Sierra Ventures as one of our seed investors is because of their CXO Advisory Board. They have dozens of knowledgeable advisors across a wide variety of verticals: Healthcare, Consumer, Retail, Finance, Technology, Media and Telecom. Each year they conduct a broad survey of major trends. This kind of survey data is gold for Enterprise-focused startups.

The monitoring and incident management process is often chaotic and time-consuming for organizations. However, there is a better way to approach IT incidents and make your existing process function better. Topology and relationship-based observability solutions take the incident management process from chaotic to structured. Let’s look into how StackState’s solution improves and speeds up the incident resolution process.

On Tuesday, January 26, 2021, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 14.4. As with previous releases, each new OS update is available to all Apple devices capable of running iOS and iPadOS 14. If you’re an IT admin, you should evaluate how you want to approach the latest release. Do you want to accelerate or slow down the updates? One concern we often hear about is that the apps that a company is deploying may not be compatible or may not have been tested with the latest release.