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SaC - How to build status pages as code with Terraform

Status pages are a clever solution to bundle all your services, and see the status of them at one sight. We at iLert took this one step further: why not build your status page as code using Terraform? We want to show you how we make it possible, and how you can set it up for your own infrastructure - a real SaC solution.

How to Find Stranded Capacity in Your Data Center

Data center capacity planning is one of the biggest challenges for today’s data center professionals. According to a recent survey by Sunbird Software, 72% of respondents said that capacity planning was one of their top objectives. Proper capacity planning results in the right-sized data centers, efficient utilization of resources, and reduced costs, but it is easier said than done.

Improve Application Reliability With 4T Monitors

StackState’s new 4T Monitors introduce the ability to monitor IT topology as it changes over time. Now your observability processes can trigger alerts on changes in topology that don’t match an ideal state, on deviations in metrics and events and on complex combinations of parameters. Monitoring topology as part of your observability efforts enriches the concept of environment health by adding the dimension of topology.

Forward logs from the OpenTelemetry Collector with the Datadog Exporter

OpenTelemetry is an open source set of tools and standards that provide visibility into cloud-native applications. OpenTelemetry allows you to collect metrics, traces, and logs from applications written in many languages and export them to a backend of your choice.

Send metrics and traces from OpenTelemetry Collector to Datadog via Datadog Exporter

OpenTelemetry is an open source, vendor-neutral observability framework that provides tools, APIs, and SDKs to collect and standardize telemetry data from cloud-native applications and services. One of OpenTelemetry’s key components is the OpenTelemetry Collector, which receives and processes data before using exporters to route it to the destinations of your choice.

How to monitor DNS query response time

DNS (Domain Name System) servers translate standard language web addresses to their actual IP addresses for network access. DNS response time is the time it takes a Domain Name Server to receive the request for a domain name’s IP address, process it, and return the IP address to the browser or application requesting it. When it comes to DNS response times, the lower the better, and generally values less than 100ms are considered to be in the acceptable range (depending on the application).