You may have a team chat where automatic alerts fall in great numbers daily. Although these alerts are meant to notify you of issues, they often go unnoticed as you scroll through dozens of them. When we talk about IT alerts, things are getting even more complicated because they include many technical details you must decipher. This is one of many simple examples of alert fatigue.

I am happy to announce that Checkly now supports parallel scheduling as a new way to schedule your checks. Parallel scheduling allows you to reduce mean time to detection, provide better insights when addressing outages, and give improved accuracy in performance trends, making it a powerful new feature for all Checkly users.

Cloudsmith Navigator: a free tool designed to help software engineering teams select the best OSS packages for their projects.

Asking engineers to be on-call is usually a tough sell. Think about it: if someone asked you to add even more to your already packed workload, that would be a difficult proposition to say yes to. And that’s before you mention that this work typically happens late into the day and even (some) sleepless nights. Companies need to have an on-call function to keep their services and products running smoothly—it’s practically a non-negotiable at this point.

Syslog, short for System Logging Protocol, is a standard protocol used to send log messages and event notifications across a network. It plays a crucial role in monitoring and managing the health, performance, and security of systems and applications. Syslog was originally developed as a part of the BSD operating system, but many other operating systems and network devices have since adopted it. One of the key aspects of syslog is its flexible and standardized message formats.

Navigating through the complexities of document management in SharePoint Online is essential in today’s digital landscape. SharePoint Online offers robust solutions for managing vast amounts of data. However, understanding and managing the size of these libraries is key to maintaining an efficient and streamlined digital workspace.

Could ServiceNow’s AIOps be the solution to anticipate incidents better, minimize events, and slash your resolution time? When deployed correctly, this popular AIOps tool offers many benefits to IT operations teams. We’ll explain everything you need to know to understand ServiceNow AIOps, its main product features, benefits, and common use cases. Discover how AIOps outperforms traditional IT operations tools in today’s dynamic IT environment.

Today, I want to showcase an old, but still very useful, tool when it comes to analyzing and debugging an Icinga 2 configuration: the icinga2 object list command. It can be helpful in a variety of situations, for example when you want to verify that a config change has the desired effect, but also for finding out where something is set in the configuration.