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A Guide to Installing the JFrog Platform on Amazon EKS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service — or Amazon EKS — is a managed service that enables you to run Kubernetes on AWS without having to manage your own Kubernetes clusters. The JFrog Platform is available on AWS, making it super simple to deploy applications reliably and predictably, scale them quickly, roll out new features easily, and make the most of hardware resources.

How MetricFire Can Help Monitor IoT Devices Using Telegraf and Mosquito

The growing popularity of IoT devices has revolutionized the way we interact with technology. From smart homes to industrial automation, these devices have become an integral part of our lives. However, managing and monitoring a large fleet of IoT devices can be a daunting task. With the sheer volume of data being generated by these devices, it becomes crucial to have a robust monitoring system in place.

Collectd Plugins

Collectd is a data collection software that allows you to fetch metrics from a machine being monitored locally and push them to Graphite. Everything is done by plugins. The collectd plugins can collect metrics on CPU, memory, Postgres, JVM, and many more metrics. Plugins can also be used to push these metrics to Graphite, aggregate data, send alerts, and send notifications to email.

The Future of Configuration Management Software is Policy Enforcement

The old way we’ve thought about configuration management software has passed — we need a new perspective that takes into account the importance of policy enforcement. Let’s dig deeper into what this means for DevOps, your overall security and compliance strategy, and IT.

Checkly Was Recognized In Two 2023 Gartner® Hype Cycle Reports For Monitoring as Code

Checkly Is Innovating the Future of DevOps With a Monitoring as Code (MaC) Workflow Including a Ground-Breaking Command Line Interface. Checkly today announced it was recognized for (MaC) in two Gartner Hype Cycle reports: Hype Cycle for Monitoring and Observability, July 10, 2023 and Hype Cycle for Site Reliability Engineering, July 17, 2023. We believe this acknowledgment underscores Checkly's commitment to innovation and its leadership role in the MaC movement.

Understanding The Cloud Options Available To Your Business

Businesses in all sectors of industry and commerce have undergone some dramatic changes in the last few decades. One of the key changes has been the move to the digitalization of the modern workplace. Previously, storing and retrieving physical documents, data and information were common practice. Today, this is considered to be incredibly outdated in most organizations and almost all important pieces of data and information are now held in the digital domain.

We used GPT-4 during a hackathon-here's what we learned

We recently ran our first hackathon in quite some time. Over two days, our team collaborated in groups on various topics. By the end of it, we had 12 demos to share with the rest of the team. These ranged from improvements in debugging HTTP request responses to the delightful “automatic swag sharer.” Within our groups, a number of us tried integrating with OpenAI’s GPT to see what smarts we could bring to our product.

Using An Infrastructure Monitoring Dashboard

As businesses embrace more cloud-native technologies and IT infrastructure becomes more dispersed, they must connect their business goals and end-user experience with the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure. This change necessitates infrastructure monitoring to assure compatibility with cloud environments, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualized systems, and other components.