What Is an IT Service Desk?
11/10/20 Let’s say you’re shopping in a retail store. You have everything on your shopping list except for one item. You’ve browsed through each of the aisles (twice), and you stil…
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Monitor DNS with Datadog
This Datadog article explains how network performance directly impacts user experience (UX) and how to measure that impact. It highlights using Datadog's Synthetic Monitoring to pr…
Monitoring 101: The Fundamental Concepts of System Monitoring
11/09/20 The answer to troubleshooting network challenges lies in effectively monitoring your environment. But saying “let’s monitor our network” presumes you know what you should …
Generate process metrics to analyze historical trends in resource consumption
This article details how Netflix improved the efficiency of collecting and analyzing live process metrics by 100x. They achieved this by shifting from collecting detailed, high-car…
Determining the Most Important Application Availability and Performance Signals
11/06/20 There’s a time-tested saying in IT: zero sensors, zero incidents. What goes unmeasured goes unmaintained, unmanaged, and ultimately unprotected. But measurement is no simp…
Maximizing Visibility & Performance for a Work-From-Anywhere World
When I joined Riverbed in October 2019, one of my first priorities was to present a clear vision and strategy for the company going into 2020. And after weeks of learning and liste…
Level Up Your IT Asset Management Strategy
11/05/20 Whether you’re supporting remote teams or working in a hybrid environment, IT asset management (ITAM) is a critical practice to the business and your service management st…
What Is IT Asset Management?
11/03/20 Depending on the business, there’s a myriad of IT assets to keep track of and doing it manually can be taxing. An IT asset management system allows IT pros to monitor all …
Five Steps to Developing an Application Modernization Strategy
11/02/20 Supporting legacy applications is problematic for several reasons. These aging systems are becoming increasingly obsolete and difficult to maintain. They use outdated soft…
Why People, Processes, and Technology Cannot Change in Isolation
10/30/20 However, coronavirus has retaught us one fundamental—in cybersecurity, people, processes, and technology must develop in parallel. Think of what happened: there was a mass…
Expand your Sleuth monitoring reach with Datadog
Please provide me with the article content! I need the text of "Approaching your observability migration with the right mindset" to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste th…
5 Service Desk Tickets Sure to Keep You Awake at Night
10/29/20 It’s the witching hour and the night is cold. Something feels eerie—it seems calm, but you’re not sold. You turn your computer on and to your despair, Through the garishne…