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In the cutthroat industry of financial services, only the fairest businesses of them all can reign supreme. But it’s not easy to stay on top. Complex IT systems combined with aging technology and cyber attackers can mean businesses are all too often finding themselves at the tail-end of a systems failure wondering what went wrong. And for the “always-on” customer, no reaction time is quick enough.

Observability seems to be a topic of discussion stirring debate around the argument that observability is different than monitoring. Observability is achieved when data is made available from within the system needing monitoring. Monitoring is actually the task of collecting and displaying this data. There is another term when having the debate between observability and monitoring that seems to be forgotten and that is analysis. After the system is observable, when you have collected the data via monitoring, you need to perform analysis either manually or automatically.

The demand for the “always-accessible” applications and services continues to grow, making network monitoring a fundamental requirement and priority for today’s IT Professional. Network monitoring solutions should provide a first line of defense when applications go down or when performance begins to deteriorate. Monitoring solutions should also scale as your needs and infrastructure grow providing an “all-in-one” solution.

ITRS Group partners with Intelligencia to enable Gaming and Casino businesses to remain always-on  

More than mobile: how rapidly diversifying telcos can avoid critical overload  As industry rivals go, telecoms businesses are among the fiercest and most competitive. For key players, the race to win market share is never ending and the finish line seems nowhere in sight. And although you might be in the mindset that a little competition never hurt anyone, for telcos, this environment could leave entire IT systems down and out. 

There is confusion around the terms DevOps and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering). Indeed there is enough confusion to cause debate about what each actually is, whether they are new and what the differences are between them. This blog is about DevOps and its widespread adoption in Enterprise IT, but there are enough underlying similarities between the two that it seemed odd to mention one without the other. So what is DevOps?

If you are in an Application Support team chances are you started to experience the migration of your applications over to containers. For teams used to covering the “three pillars” of application health metrics, don’t be surprised if the engineers and dev ops teams tell you that monitoring in containerized environments will not be the same. But definitely take note if they insist that you no longer need to worry about any one of the three pillars. The three pillars that I am referring to are Metrics, Logs and Traces.

With the release of our Orchestrated Netprobe solution, collecting useful metrics from Java applications has become much easier. No longer is it necessary to manage JMX connections between Geneos and all of your applications. Instead, the Orchestrated Netprobe uses a push model where n applications publish metrics to a central agent via the Statsd protocol. This greatly reduces the operational overhead involved when spinning up new applications.