A Change in Handling HTTP 401 Statuses
Uptime Robot treats all HTTP statuses equally. They mean either up or down… except HTTP 401. HTTP 401 is expected in some situations and not expected in others. Currently, HTTP 401 is handled as...
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Acronym Buster: IT Operations Tools
TLDR: There's a LOT of different tools out there... Clearly feeling the world was in desperate need of more acronyms, IT operations has well and truly stood up to the plate. Dazed and confused - and with FOMO about to kick in – I thought now would be a good time to write up an acronym buster so I could finally put those woes to bed. That, and I promised my manager I'd publish a new blog before COP.
Monitor Amazon MQ metrics with Datadog
Amazon MQ is a cloud-based, AWS-managed service for the popular Apache ActiveMQ message broker. It offers many advantages of being part of the AWS ecosystem as AWS automatically provisions and maintains infrastructure components from services including EC2 and EBS.
Website Security: Web Monitoring Tips for Keeping Your Site Safe
With the constant threat of DDoS, DNS attacks, malware, and data breaches; website security is a top priority for today’s tech teams. You’ve taken the appropriate measures. Your domain uses HTTP/S, SSL encryption, and is locked up tight. Or is it? In 2018, Symantec reported over 70 million records were leaked or stolen because of misconfigured S3 buckets.
Stackdriver with Kubernetes - Stack Doctor
Welcome to the Stack Doctor series! In this video, take a sneak peek at how Kubernetes is helping developers deploy complex applications with Stackdriver. Yuri Grinshteyn shows you how to create and monitor Kubernetes clusters with Google Kubernetes Engine.
OpsRamp Webinar: 2019 Performance Monitoring and Management Trends & Insights
Join 451 Research's Senior Analyst Nancy Gohring and OpsRamp's Vice President of Marketing Darren Cunningham as they discuss the latest trends in IT monitoring and management.
What is DNS? Some basic concepts
What is DNS? DNS is the Domain Name System, or the hierarchical system of nomenclature that orders the names of members who connect to IP networks, such as the Internet. In this article we will briefly learn what DNS is, how it works, what it is used for and some of its advantages and disadvantages. What is DNS? Shall we begin?
Reduce Incident Downtime and Fix Outages Sooner with Policy-Based Alert Escalation Management
Proactive Incident Analysis, Diagnosis, and Resolution with Service-Centric AIOps. Alerts define the state of an infrastructure resource, application, or any other IP discoverable device. Organizations take action on alerts based on business impact and priority and ensure that IT service performance meets the required standards for availability, usability, and security.
Key ECS metrics to monitor
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is an orchestration service for Docker containers running within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. You can declare the components of a container-based infrastructure, and ECS will deploy, maintain, and remove those components automatically. The resulting ECS cluster lends itself to a microservice architecture where containers are scaled and scheduled based on need.
Tools for ECS monitoring
In Part 1, we introduced a number of key metrics that you can use for ECS monitoring. Monitoring ECS involves paying attention to two levels of abstraction: the status of your services, tasks, and containers, as well as the resource use from the underlying compute and storage infrastructure, monitored per EC2 host or Docker container. In this post, we’ll survey some techniques you can use to monitor both levels of your ECS deployment.