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Your phone is ringing off the hook. Another client is calling, trying to figure out how to ensure their team can continue to be productive in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though these are extraordinary times, your role as the IT professional hasn’t really changed. Your job is to make sure your clients are productive and they can still access the resources, tools, and applications they need to do their jobs.

Has your phone gone in the middle of the night when your boss is calling because the server is down? Maybe you wake up to a tone of text messages that something is wrong with the server? If you have encountered this, then you know the importance of monitoring your server so that you are not the last to know when there is a problem. Part of server monitoring is putting best practices in place to ensure you are prepared for the unexpected.

Over the last 10 years, the landscape that we manage, maintain, and control as operators and developers has changed dramatically. We’ve shifted from monolith to microservices, from bare metal to VMs to containers to function-based computing — and it’s changed how we need to approach monitoring and observability.

The end of TLS v1.0 and v1.1 is near – the most popular browsers will either display a warning message when you visit a TLS 1.0/1.1 site or require user intervention and confirmation to connect to the website.

When it comes to complex application integrations, RED monitoring provides a sensible and necessary common element to see how our systems are performing and to alert us to behavior which is detrimental to your customers and your business goals. So, what is RED? RED stands for rate, errors, duration and is an offshoot of the Google Golden Signals.

With more and more endpoints accessing your network remotely, you should expect rapid increases in VPN connections and usage, as well as exponential usage of cloud-based services. There are numerous Splunk apps that can help you increase the monitoring of remote endpoints but let’s showcase Splunk Security Essentials (SSE).

Gunicorn is a popular application server for Python applications. It uses the Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI), which defines how a web server communicates with and makes requests to a Python application. In production, Gunicorn is often deployed behind an NGINX web server. NGINX proxies web requests and passes them on to Gunicorn worker processes that execute the application.

The NiCE Oracle Management Pack enables advanced health and performance diagnostics for Oracle. Health and performance measurement is displayed directly in your Microsoft System Center console. NiCE integrations into SquaredUp dashboards and Cookdowns’ Easy Tune make it even easier to tune Oracle monitoring. Leverage your existing investment, reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies that will last beyond your expectations.

AI Ops is about enabling developers, program managers, service engineers, website reliability engineers etc. to efficiently build as well as run online services or applications at scale with AI & ML techniques. AI Ops is expected to help improve service quality. customer satisfaction, enhance technology productivity, and reduce cost. With hype all around the world regarding artificial intelligence, IT leaders are sceptical whether it will actually be useful to them or will it add to their costs.

Netdata contributors have greatly influenced the growth of our company and are essential to our success. The time and expertise that contributors volunteer are fundamental to our goal of helping you build extraordinary infrastructures. We highly value end-user feedback during product development, which is why we’re looking to involve you in progressing our machine learning (ML) efforts!