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The Cost of Monitoring – With the Wrong Tool

12/17/18 or “It’s not just the cost of buying the puppy, it’s the cost of feeding the puppy that adds up” This is a story I’ve told out loud many times, on conference calls, and ar…

All I Want For Christmas Is … RESTCONF?

12/13/18 As somebody not lucky enough to have a nice clicky interface with which to manage and automate all my equipment, I have to develop my own tools to do so. One aspect of dev…

How Digital Transformation is Changing IT Service Management Solutions

12/11/18 In this article, we will look at ITSM through the lens of constant digital transformation, examining how the rise of AI is affecting humans in the IT space; the move to cl…

Application Dependency Mapping

12/11/18 So far in this series, we have covered Application Performance Monitoring. If you haven’t already, read part one, part two, part three, and part four. In the last post, we…

What is Your IT Legacy?

12/10/18 Where are you in your career arc right now? Trusting simple statistics, I can say that the majority of you are either just starting out, or somewhere in the middle. Relati…

Analyzing Tomcat logs and metrics with Datadog

Please provide me with the article content! I need the text of the "Key metrics for monitoring Tomcat" article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article here, an…

Key metrics for monitoring Tomcat

This Datadog article explains how to gain deeper insights into your Java web application performance by leveraging Tomcat logs and metrics within the Datadog platform. It details h…

Collecting metrics with Tomcat monitoring tools

This Datadog article details how to effectively monitor your Apache Tomcat applications using Datadog's log management and metrics collection capabilities. It explains how to autom…

You Are Here – A Reference Model for IT Infrastructure Security

12/07/18 We made it! This is the final post in this six-part series mapping the cybersecurity landscape through a new reference model for IT infrastructure security. Thank you for …

To Infinity and Beyond!

12/06/18 I’ve covered a lot in this series of posts around artificial intelligence (machine learning); from the beginning (Not Another AI Post…) to why I love it (My Affection for …

The Cost of (Not) Monitoring

12/05/18 What does a wireless thermometer have in common with ping? Both can keep a business from losing cash. One of the ways businesses stay in business is by keeping a tight rei…

How to Use SLAs to Improve Customer Service Satisfaction

12/04/18 Effectively setting and managing customers’ expectations is what drives their level of service satisfaction. One terrific way to set and manage expectations is through the…