If you read my last blog on Observability or watched the associated webinar then you will know that I’m a fan of old TV game shows. This week I want you to cast your mind back to 1997 and the TV show Blankety Blank. Imagine that you have made your way through to the Supermatch […]
In the 1980’s there was a British TV show called Call My Bluff on which 2 teams of 3 “celebrities” battled to determine the correct definition of a given obscure word. The teams took turns to give three definitions, one true and two bluffs, while the other team attempted to determine which was correct. Recently […]
As Orb Data helps their customers plan migrations from ITM6 to Instana one of the first questions is on events and the comparative terminology. This blog will try and compare the two technologies. ITM6 For ITM6, monitoring is defined using a “Situation”. The situation definition includes a condition that is periodically evaluated against attributes (metrics) […]
I’ve been working with IBM’s Monitoring and Event Management products for about 25 years and in that time, there have been 3 big events that significantly changed the products that we deployed. Firstly, there was the introduction of the Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) into the portfolio in 1996 that introduced the concept of rules such […]