Microsoft .NET Framework is one of the most popular application development platforms and programming languages. C# and ASP.NET frameworks are used by millions of developers for building Windows client applications, XML Web services, distributed components, client-server applications, database applications, and so on. It’s no surprise that ensuring top-notch performance of .NET applications is a foremost need for most application owners and developers.

Our first Icinga meetup in Salzburg, Austria is happening this week. Join fellow community members :) OSMC is near, just one month to go …. meet Jan-Piet on MQTT, Claudio as a first-time speaker on container monitoring, Nicolai with infrastructure visualization and Carsten with his “Einhornmagie” :-)

Recently, we began using IP geolocation within StatusGator to learn where are users are located. We are happy to say that it’s working out well. We hoped to use these insights to tune our marketing. To that end, we added the Ahoy gem to help collect information related to how our advertising campaigns are going. The Ahoy gem also uses the geolocation gem to lookup IP addresses. This significantly increased the number of IP geolocation lookups.

The New Topology View for Citrix Monitoring and Citrix Troubleshooting gives an IT administrator an out if the box solution to troubleshoot Citrix from a 50,000 foot view, down to the individual user. It’s an industry first capability to view their entire global hybrid IT infrastructure from a single pane of glass whether it is on premises and or in Amazon AWS or Azure.

This week we released Grafana 5.3.0beta-3 in prep for a stable release that should be available next week. In addition to details on the new beta, we have a lot of new and updated plugins to share, and our weekly roundup of Grafana-related articles from around the Internet.

We all want seamless rollouts of Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop and we use a number of tools to achieve that reality. I have found a unique software that allows me to proactively understand the performance impact of Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop on the IT infrastructure and ultimately end user experience early in the Citrix deployment lifecycle. In this post I will show you four examples of how I use the software to avoid potential issues.

Two of the biggest IT headaches we hear about here at Zenoss are alert noise and fatigue. To help combat these, we co-developed an integration with PagerDuty to help enterprises successfully overcome these pain points. Recently, we launched the updated version of the PagerDuty ZenPack using PagerDuty’s v2 API and certification for Zenoss Cloud.

Pandora FMS relies on a MySQL database for configuration and data storage. A database failure can temporarily bring your monitoring solution to a halt. The Pandora FMS high availability database cluster allows you to easily deploy a fault-tolerant, robust architecture.

On-call compensation models may vary based on local laws, company culture, and management practices. Some common compensation models include: 1 - Incentivized on-call, 2 - Paid for scheduled overtime, 3 - Paid for total time spent resolving issues

We’re enhancing the existing Sentry Java SDK with our new Java agent. The thing is — it’s still in beta, and we need your feedback. Once downloaded, the agent will enhance your application stack traces on Sentry by adding the names and values of local variables to each frame. Specifically, the agent provides much more detail about the current state of the application at the time of the error than you would usually have.