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Facilities and the Service Desk: There’s a Space for That!

11/13/20 IT typically leads the charge on selecting, implementing, and maintaining the organization’s IT Service Management (ITSM) platform of choice. Over time we see ITSM solutio…

Manage CloudFront real-time logs in Datadog

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Datadog's KubeCon 2020 guide

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Monitor MarkLogic with Datadog

This article details how to effectively monitor Lustre filesystems using Datadog's integration. It explains how to collect key Lustre metrics—like client performance, OST/MDS healt…

7 Ways Cloud-Based ITSM Solutions Can Make IT Support a Breeze

11/12/20 Moving to the cloud is one of the most critical trends in digital transformation. Gartner even predicts that by 2022, 90% of companies will be using cloud services. As clo…

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…

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…