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A 3-step guide to troubleshooting and visualizing Kubernetes with Grafana Cloud

Back in May, we announced the Kubernetes integration to help users easily monitor and alert on core Kubernetes cluster metrics using the Grafana Agent, our lightweight observability data collector optimized for sending metric, log, and trace data to Grafana Cloud. Since then, we’ve made some improvements to help our customers go even further.

Top 7 ManageEngine Competitors and Alternatives in 2021

ManageEngine is Zoho Corporation's enterprise IT management software subsidiary. AdventNet Inc. was founded in 1996 and was known as such until 2009. Over 90 tools are included in ManageEngine to assist you in managing all areas of your IT infrastructure, including networks, applications, servers, service desks, security, active directory, desktops, and mobile devices. They've also built products with contextual integration from the ground up to ensure that you can manage your IT together.

Understanding Apache Logging: How to View, Locate and Analyze Access & Error Logs

Apache – the technology that powers the web. I’m not sure if that is correct, but I think that we wouldn’t see the world wide web in its current shape without it. Launched in 1995 and since April 1996, it has been the most popular web server around the world. Because of handling your users’ requests, Apache serves as the front application. It is crucial to understand what your server is doing, what file users are accessing, from where they came, and much, much more.

Top 10 AWS Services Explained With Use Cases

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud service providers in the industry, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. A large spectrum of clients across verticals uses AWS to lower costs, become more agile and innovate faster. A recent survey estimates that AWS is the largest cloud service provider and accounts for 32% of the worldwide cloud services market.

AWS Lambda Pricing Model Explained With Examples

In this article we’ll go through the ins and outs of AWS Lambda pricing model, how it works, what additional charges you might be looking at and what’s in the fine print. Money makes the wold go round. Unfortunately, it is a necessity in almost all spheres of life. You can live without it or with lesser amounts of it, but it makes it all harder. If you wish to have it, first, you need to give it, as always. Even AWS Lambda is not free.

Getting Started with Go and InfluxDB

Conventional databases such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB are great at safekeeping the state of your system in a tabular or document format, but what about time-dependent data: systems metrics, IoT device measurement or application state change? For those things, you need a more suitable type of database, one designed to manage better semi-structured data with a time characteristic.

7 Things to Check Before Launching a Website

Launching a website is a process that takes numerous essential steps. As the launch date comes closer, the excitement might lead to an oversight here and there. You can prevent this by deploying patience and double-checking every part of your website before it goes live. It all comes down to the type of website you're planning to launch. The more features you're planning to have, the longer the pre-launch inspection is going to take.

NECA delivers 99.9% system uptime using Applications Manager

NECA is an allied association of local telecommunications providers in the United States that was instituted by the Federal Communications Commission. It aims to provide rural consumers across the country with telecommunications and broadband services at affordable prices. Its services also include economic forecasting, trend analysis, industry database management, and rate and tariff analysis.

Monitor your Synthetic private locations with Datadog

Datadog Synthetic private locations play a key role in your organization’s test infrastructure by serving as highly customizable points of presence (e.g., data centers, geographic locations) for running synthetic tests on internal services. You can deploy private locations using the orchestrator of your choice, enabling you to seamlessly roll them out and scale them with the rest of your container fleet.