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10 tips for log shipping using Fluentd

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies data collection and consumption. It has different types of plugins that retrieve logs from external sources, parse them, and send them to log management tools like Site24x7 AppLogs. tail, forward, udp, tcp, http, syslog, exec, and windows_eventlog are common input plugins.

What is Server Management? Tools and Best Practices

In the digital age, organizations depend more on IT than ever before. The foundation of many IT functions -- including data storage, website hosting, emails, and software -- is server management. Without reliable, functioning servers, most IT functionality would collapse. Many businesses have migrated internal IT to cloud services using servers located in remote data centers, but a significant number still have in-house servers or use a hybrid environment of in-house and cloud services.

Atomic User Journeys

The temptation with synthetic user journeys is to create a single, long running journey that checks everything in one go and run it every 5 minutes. This may sound like a good idea because one journey is cheaper than five or because there’s fewer scripts to maintain, but it will make your life much harder and is likely to still cost as much due to the total time it takes to run. Therefore a good approach to user journey monitoring is to create atomic journeys.

5 Must-Have Preventive Maintenance Software Features

Maintenance is a very crucial part of all businesses in order to keep assets in good shape. Maintenance is utilized in various types as well. Proactive maintenance and reactive maintenance in this blog we will know more about proactive maintenance (preventive maintenance). Preventive maintenance is one of the most important factors for all organizations, especially when organizations are full of assets and pieces of equipment.

Kubernetes Tips: How to find the Port of a Service with a DNS request

Last week I created a guide for our users to set up an NGINX service as an API Gateway with Qovery. The API gateway must redirect the incoming traffic to the appropriate service with the correct port. My problem is that the API Gateway does not know the ports exposed for every service. In this post, I will show you a quick tip on finding the port of a Kubernetes service with a single DNS request. Let's go!

Backed by $2.5B valuation, Sysdig goes channel first

It’s an exciting day at Sysdig as we announce our channel-first approach to doing business. What does this mean exactly? Going forward, we will be conducting sales for all customers outside of the Global 500 through a channel partner. For more than three decades, customers have leveraged channel partners as trusted advisors for vendor-agnostic IT consultation and expertise. Our channel-first approach moves Sysdig in line with how customers buy.

Announcing Grafana Incident, smart incident management for your teams

A huge challenge when dealing with incidents is the coordination and communication needed to put things right. What’s happened so far? Who has tried what query? Did we remember to keep stakeholders informed? What is the severity of the incident? Does this affect customers? Figuring this out requires a lot of back and forth as new team members join the incident.

AWS' Newest Official Partner: Speedscale

Speedscale is excited to join the AWS Partner Network (APN), the global community of partners who leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build solutions and services for customers. AWS Partners are uniquely positioned to help businesses take full advantage of all that AWS has to offer and accelerate the journey to the cloud. As part of this achievement, Speedscale has completed the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR).

Difference Between Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud

Cloud computing is vast. It encompasses a huge range of architectural styles, classifications, and types. This complex computing network has transformed the way we work and is a crucial part of our daily lives, both at home and at work. For organizations, there are many ways to “cloud”, but let’s start with the basics of cloud computing; the internet cloud.