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“Best Practices”: How I Hate Thee

01/05/26 I have opinions about many prevalent terms in the IT industry. As in any industry, there’...

Keep Your Printers Happy with Zabbix and PaperCut NG

We all know the panic when the print system goes down. As I’ve written about before, PaperCut NG i...

Top 14 alternatives for Datadog in 2025

12/22/25 We’ll cover features, pricing models, and the kind of teams each shines for, so you can c...

Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring: Surviving the Layer Cake of Doom

Here's a fun drinking game for you: take a shot every time you discover a VM in your environment nam...

Beyond the Bill: Is Your Observability Licensing Helping or Hindering You?

12/11/25 An observability platform can promise a world of savings, but a rigid, outdated, or confusi...

Funding Activated: How to Strategically Spend Your IT Budget Post-Continuing Resolution

12/10/25 While the CR provides essential stability, it enforces strict rules on how and where funds ...

Saving Time with a Custom Zabbix Agent Installer

When managing large-scale infrastructure, the process of installing monitoring agents is often repet...

Aruba Central API Monitoring with Zabbix

Aruba Central is a SaaS solution that allows you to manage your Enterprise Aruba network environment...

Top 16 alternatives for Splunk in 2025

11/21/25 We keep it simple and useful: who each tool is for, what it does best, how it’s priced, a...

Migrating from Opsgenie? Here’s the Incident Response Solution You Actually Need

11/19/25 Opsgenie has likely been a core part of your incident response setup for years. It deserves...

Detecting an AWS Outage and DR Lessons

A few weeks ago, on 20th October 2025, AWS suffered a widespread outage in its US-EAST-1 region that...

Improving Customer Satisfaction and Experience with Zabbix

No matter what business you’re in, there is one universal truth – your success or failure depend...

How OpenTelemetry Is Redefining Application Performance Monitoring

11/06/25 The data is there, but it’s scattered across domains, formats, and vendors. Teams are oft...

Creating a Community-Driven Zabbix Book

At the recent Zabbix Summit community meeting, participants gathered to discuss an exciting initiati...

Unlocking Hidden Savings: The True ROI of Observability

10/23/25 To keep up, many IT teams have accumulated a vast array of monitoring products—one for in...

Monitoring a Starlink Dish with Zabbix

Did you realize that you can monitor a Starlink dish using just Zabbix? The idea (or rather the need...

Monitoring a Starlink Dish with Zabbix

Did you realize that you can monitor a Starlink dish using just Zabbix? The idea (or rather the need...

How Agentic AI Brings Autonomous Operational Resilience Into Reach

10/08/25 Today’s hybrid, distributed environments are more complex than ever. Outages don’t just...

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