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20 Best Cloud Monitoring Tools

When it comes to the best cloud monitoring tools, there are various services you can rely on or choose to support your IT infrastructure. After all, cloud monitoring is critical to ensure the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud services. Numerous teams in modern IT, SaaS, and app development companies, including DevOps, SREs, and security analysts depend on cloud monitoring solutions.

Fallbacks for HTTP 404 images in HTML and JavaScript

Your images are 404ing all over the place. You’ve got an angry email from a client. Their site is “broken”, images aren’t loading, cumulative layout shift is running riot, and everything is messed up. The crowds are mocking your broken code on Twitter. A fun GIF loaded via a Giphy URL no longer exists. And someone has accidentally deleted an image from the CMS.

NiCE VMware MP 5 7 Release Recording 2023Q4

Come witness the unveiling of the NiCE VMware Management Pack 5.7 in our release video: "Advanced VMware Monitoring on SCOM and Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance." Dive into the dynamic world of virtualization management as we introduce an array of new monitoring features that promise to elevate the capabilities of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance.

How to fix Kubernetes init container errors

One of the most frustrating moments as a Kubernetes developer is when you go to launch your pod, but it fails to start because of a problem during initialization. Init containers are incredibly useful for setting up a pod before handing it off to the main container, but they introduce an additional point of failure. In this post, we'll take an in-depth look at init containers in Kubernetes: what they are, how they work, how they can fail, and what that means for your Kubernetes deployments.

My Recap on the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference

Last week, I attended the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference (IOCS). Gartner IOCS is my favorite conference every year because of the quality and level of the presentations. Gartner analysts deliver most sessions and put a lot of effort into the presentations and supporting research. ‍ I’d like to highlight two sessions that I found to be very informative.

Monitor MySQL Performance Using Telegraf

Monitoring the performance of your MySQL database will help identify performance bottlenecks, inefficient queries, and resource-intensive processes. By tracking metrics like query execution times, server load, and resource usage, administrators can optimize configurations and fine-tune the database for better efficiency and speed. Additionally, monitoring any running process allows for the early detection of potential problems such as server overload, disk space shortages, or network issues.

Managing Issues and Improving Products After Launch

It’s easy to forget in the run-up to launching your next product that development doesn’t (and shouldn’t) stop after devices go into production. Anticipating and addressing issues after launch is crucial to maintaining a product’s quality, reliability, functionality, and customer satisfaction. This means engineers must be able to quickly respond to unexpected issues, improve the product based on real-world feedback, and set the customer service team up for success.

Data Profiling The Secret Map of Your Telemetry Data Landscape

As data volumes proliferate and costs of data grow, it's becoming increasingly difficult to find the signal in all the noise. Telemetry data -- metrics, logs and traces -- are key to making sound, data-driven decisions, troubleshooting systems issues and maintaining uptime, but it's easy to get overwhelmed. Data profiling shows you exactly where your good data is coming from, how to save what's relevant and discard what's not and slash your data management and storage expenses.