The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
Bugs are dumb. They’re also inevitable. However annoying that may be, it’s more productive to accept the existence of bugs in our workflows than to panic-spiral every single time they pop up. Part of the acceptance process is keeping bugs (or at least the ones you care to fix) top of mind by paralleling your error monitoring and your sprint planning.
With Azure Virtual Machine (VM) Scale Sets you can automatically scale the number of VMs running an application based on the compute resources required. VM Scale Sets make it easier to deploy and manage a large number of Virtual Machines consistently and allow you to use and pay for the minimum resources needed at any given time, but they also introduce a few monitoring challenges.
Among my multiple occupations is also contributing to edit Wikipedia, and there is a wonderful article about Pandora FMS where it is stated that we can do a Web Page Monitoring to extract, for example, the value of Google actions and alert if they fall below a certain figure. That is still true today, although many things have changed!
Unless end users (EUs) are directly prevented from using applications, they are unlikely to report IT anomalies or malfunctions; it’s much easier to restart a program or click “x” to make the error message disappear than submitting a ticket. Every day, employees settle for small IT glitches which never go reported, giving IT departments the perception of smooth service delivery while, in reality, EUs are experiencing constant obstacles and frustration.
One of the key pieces of wisdom regarding any kind of development project is that all software problems are inherently hardwaret problems. This is one among many reasons why devices like the iPhone and the Xbox have been so popular over the years. When software and hardware integrate properly, and code is written to specs that take full advantage of the platform, great things become possible.
Enterprise users of Office 365 often need to configure a multi-function printer to use the platform’s SMTP email capabilities on their network. There are several ways of doing this, each with their own benefits and disadvantages. In this guide we’ll be looking at the steps required in setting up Office 365 network printing and email under various conditions.
