Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Your website is the face of your business - it should urge the customer to buy your product. Knowing this, you spend weeks on a great web design and user experience. But that’s only the visible part, what about your site’s infrastructure? In order to make your website as optimized as possible, you need metrics about everything such as customer behavior, load speeds, proxy request counts, load balancers and more.

Monitoring Jenkins is a serious challenge. Logging is often overlooked, but it provides a wealth of information about the health of your Jenkins instance. The following are some approaches to generating informative logging to these issues, that can help to monitor and provide suitable explanations of where the problems lie; even identifying what the possible solutions are.

Toronto, Ontario – October 10, 2020 – Densify, a leader in cloud and container cost management, today announced that its product has been Red Hat Operator Certified and can be purchased in the Red Hat Marketplace. The Marketplace is a one-stop shop to find, try, buy, and manage enterprise applications across an organization’s hybrid IT infrastructure.

Whether you’re a site reliability engineer (SRE), DevOps engineer, or any other role that plays a part in maintaining uptime for your company’s infrastructure, it’s critical to have visibility into all of your systems, regardless of their operating system. This includes monitoring Windows systems, which is a popular use case for Netdata’s community. Here’s the caveat: Netdata has no native Windows monitoring agent.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pretty much ubiquitous these days, with everyone from tiny startups to large enterprises using the cloud service to run their apps, websites, and processes. For small businesses, being able to predict your budgets is paramount. Unfortunately, AWS costs can be very difficult to forecast. In this blog, we’ll go over the pros and cons of the tools available to help you estimate your AWS costs.

Sharing information about the health and performance of an application is a critical part of any team’s daily workflow. That’s why we’re excited to announce the Datadog Slack App, which simplifies crucial communication tasks by deepening the integration between Datadog and Slack.

We are excited to announce a new integration to help developers add partner solutions to their serverless applications. AWS recently released Lambda Extensions to allow Lambda to augment the Function invocation lifecycle. Extensions from AWS, AWS Lambda Ready partners, and open source projects are useful for a wide range of use cases. For example, Extensions simplify a development workflow by automatically instrumenting Lambda functions or deploying operational tools without needing code changes.

San Jose, Calif., Oct. 8, 2020 — Perfect Image’s IT infrastructure has seen a 10:1 return on investment by implementing a multi-cloud rightsizing and optimization tool. The UK-based managed service provider’s improvements in results were gained through its partnership with Virtana, a leader in enterprise hybrid cloud migration and optimization.