The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
In today’s ever-changing digital landscape, it’s critical for companies to be in sync with their users and customers. From websites and web applications to internal mission-critical applications, businesses must ensure that their services are always available and running smoothly. If not, users are likely to easily abandon your website, directly affecting revenue.
Earlier this year, we reached an important early milestone for the next-generation Sensu Go platform with the General Availability of commercial support for Sensu Go. A few weeks later, we announced that Sensu Core 1.x – the original Sensu open source project – would reach end of life (EOL) on December 31, 2019, and that commercial support for Sensu Enterprise (latest version 3.x) would reach EOL on March 31, 2020.
MapR is an Apache Hadoop distribution that enables organizations to manage, analyze, and store all their data at scale. MapR handles a wide range of data types across infrastructures and locations by leveraging dataware, an abstraction layer in the enterprise software stack that separates data from any dependencies. We’re excited to announce that our new integration provides comprehensive visibility across all the moving parts of your MapR deployment.
Rojan Australia Pty Ltd is a managed IT services provider that supports a wide assortment of customers and businesses, and provides services such as hosted Microsoft Exchange, Xen Citrix servers, rack space, internet links, and desktop support.
Our second day at Ignite was busy busy as usual! We’ve gotten into the full swing of things now with the demos, presentations, customer briefings and LEGO giveaways. As expected, sessions we attended today were Azure focused, with an emphasis on proper (and hybrid) monitoring, cloud migrations, and new tech like Azure Arc.
Building dashboards that show real-time streaming data and allow for interactive queries is challenging. At the recent InfluxDays conference in San Francisco, Ryan McKinley, Grafana Labs VP of Applications, discussed new approaches to integrate real-time data into Grafana dashboards. Prior to joining Grafana, McKinley worked at a renewable energy startup, Natel Energy, which builds hydropower turbines. There, he used Grafana and Influx to display an overview of how the systems were working.
More than a decade ago, a small piece of code that would eventually be called Sentry was born. When I wrote this code, I didn’t know much about open-source, so when it came down to licensing, I just grabbed the first reasonable suggestion thrown my way. That suggestion happened to be the BSD 3-Clause License. Fast forward to today, and a lot has changed.
You can’t really blame most people for thinking employee surveys are a lost cause. Survey fatigue is a real thing, and every organization has its unique red tape when it comes to data collection and HR policy. If you can even manage to convince your employees to respond to that well-crafted questionnaire, how do you separate the signal from the noise and operationalize this information for ITOps?
