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Better Tools = Better Monitoring

Everyone loves tools. Whether you’re a weekend craftsman, an aspiring chef, or a serious IT professional, the tools you use can make your tasks much easier. Monitoring tools in IT are mainstays when it comes to keeping an eye on network infrastructure and enforcing company security policies. But just like anything in life, not all monitoring tools are built equally—in fact, many can harm your ability to respond to emerging issues within your network.

Cost Challenges That Keep Execs and Admins Awake at Night

Reining in costs and ensuring your IT organization maximizes its technical ROI is a delicate balancing act of office politics and well-rooted processes. IT cost challenges tend to vary from business to business, but they have one thing in common: they’re all manageable. Taking the time to study the most common IT revenue black holes starts with developing an in-depth understanding of how each one can affect IT productivity and the business’s bottom line.

Best practices for modern frontend monitoring

Single-page applications (SPAs) provide some significant benefits over multiple-page apps. For JavaScript developers using frameworks like React or Vue, they offer flexibility in moving application logic to the frontend, reducing the need for complex backend operations. For users, SPAs can provide a smooth experience with a highly interactive UI and fewer page loads. But, with increased sophistication, there are some tradeoffs.

Monitor kube-state-metrics v2.0 with Datadog

In order to manage complex containerized applications, modern devops teams need to have deep visibility into the status of their Kubernetes resources. By listening directly to the Kubernetes API, the open source kube-state-metrics service generates key metrics about your Kubernetes objects, including pods, nodes, and deployments, which are essential for understanding the status and performance of your clusters.

Your thing is Discovery, Discovery: AWS

We will use the powerful Discovery tool to simply configure an AWS (Amazon Web Services) environment, going through all the steps to create a task with the wizard. We will see all agents created thanks to this discovery task, as well as its modules. To finish off, we will focus on Discovery Cloud general view, where we will see expense analysis graphs and a map wth the number of instances per region.

Webinar: Boost up your serverless applications with Amazon EventBridge

EventBridge makes it easy to build event-driven architectures using data from your own applications, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and AWS services. In this webinar, AWS Solution Architect Sarah Fallah-Adl, and Lumigo's, Lead Solution Engineer, Timi Petrov, present how to remove the friction of writing "point-to-point" integrations with Amazon EventBridge. They will then share best practices for working with EventBridge and serverless apps.

Top SRE Toolchain Used By Site Reliability Engineers

We have compiled a list of the most popular and sought out tools (some you may have heard of) that SREs need in their toolkit - at every phase of a production system to keep up with SRE best practices Site reliability engineering (SRE) practices help organizations by ensuring smooth functioning of their deliverables with utmost reliability and resilience. These can be achieved by a set of well-defined tools that are deployed at every phase of the production system to keep up with SRE best practices.