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June 2019

Monitoring Kubernetes, part 4: the Sensu-native approach

At this point in our series, you’re likely quite familiar with the many opportunities and challenges that Kubernetes presents (especially when it comes to monitoring!). The last couple of posts take at a look at Prometheus for monitoring Kubernetes, with a side-by-side comparison with Sensu, and illustrate how they work in tandem.

Demonware's journey to assisted remediation

At Monitorama 2018, Engineering Manager Kale Stedman shared Demonware’s journey to assisted remediation, or as he likes to call it: “How my team nearly built an auto-remediation system before we realized we never actually wanted one in the first place.” In this post, I’ll recap Kale’s Monitorama talk, highlighting the key decisions that helped his team reduce daily alerts, fix underlying problems, and establish a more engaged Monitoring Team — including the steps the

The key to multi-cloud success

In the era of cloud-based architectures, companies have implemented multiple cloud platforms but have yet to reap the full benefits. Whether it’s Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure (or some combination thereof), a recent Forrester study found that nearly 86 percent of enterprises have incorporated a multi-cloud strategy.