It’s finally happened. After months of whispers, JFrog have announced the sunsetting date for Bintray - their distribution add-on to their long-standing on-premises Artifactory product. It’s officially shutting down on May 1, 2021. Cloudsmith is a direct replacement for Bintray. And Artifactory. And their X-Ray product. Don’t get us wrong - JFrog has achieved a lot over the years and we would never publicly speak out against them.
What does Netflix, eBay and Walmart have in common? They all use Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is a real-time open-source distributed search and analytics engine built on top of Apache Lucene™, a fulltext search-engine library and developed in Java. Elasticsearch started as a scalable version of the Lucene open-source search framework that uses a structure based on documents instead of tables and schemas and comes with extensive REST APIs for storing and searching the data.
During an InfluxData internal hackathon, I was looking to work on a project that would help me strengthen my Telegraf and Flux skills. I also wanted to use InfluxData’s Giraffe to visualize my project in a React application. After reading Sean Brickley’s blog post on tracking the International Space Station with InfluxDB, I was inspired to build on this idea.
We recently added password access for our Dashboards which has been in popular demand. Previously Dashboards were public and could be accessed by anyone with who you shared the link – but from today you can add a password to your dashboard in order to ensure only authorized visitors can see the data.
“We wanted to have something directly on-prem and exchange our physical servers for virtual ones. Enterprise Alert ensures higher internal flexibility for our technical teams. The product was easy to implement and just as easy to use.” Gregory Beterams, NRB Group
You might not think that an IT server monitoring service would have an impact on your net profits. IT-related costs often fall under operational expenses. As such, you have better control over these expenses and can look for different ways you can cut costs without affecting results. Before we get to reviewing some of the ways active network monitoring and server monitoring can help cut operational costs and grow your net profits, let’s do a quick review of net profits.
The online gambling industry (which includes casino games, poker, and sports betting) is growing pretty fast, with no signs of it slowing down. More and more people have access to the Internet via mobile phones or PCs, and people like to gamble. Around 51% of the world’s population are involved in some gambling form.
Exoprise CloudReady provides early detection of mission critical mail outages. On February 3rd, Microsoft had a mail delivery delay, that caused mail delivery failures and an outage. While CloudReady detected the Exchange Online mail delivery error almost 2 hours in advance, Microsoft did finally publish an incident to track the outage.
Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) are part of the package when it comes to defining contracts, particularly with technology service vendors. An SLA serves to define the metrics, expectations, and penalties that the service provider will adhere to, and SLA reports create accountability.
