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Monitoring Kafka in Production

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. Apache Kafka, on the other hand, is an open-source stream-processing software platform. Due to its widespread integration into enterprise-level infrastructures, monitoring Kafka performance at scale has become an increasingly important issue.

Icinga 2 DSL Feature: Namespaces coming in v2.10

Under the hood, Icinga 2 uses many constants and reserved keywords, e.g. “Critical” or “Zone” which are respected by the config parser and compiler. This sometimes leads to errors when users accidentally override such things, or re-define their own global constants. v2.10 introduces namespaces for this purpose, and ensures that such accidents won’t happen anymore.

The strange case of SNMP: A weird story about protocols

A crime had taken place in Manhattan Grow, a well-established company, so to speak, of invoices. Someone shouted “OH MY GOD, WE MUST FIND THE GUILTY ONE! There wasn’t enough coffee and doughnuts in the machine to calm the entire office. In the middle of summer, the sky was slowly walking towards dusk, slowly fading away. No one was going to leave Manhattan Grow until the mess was fixed. Heads were going to roll.

Quest Enhances KACE Systems Management Appliance to Meet Demands of Fast-Growing Endpoint Environments

ALISO VIEJO, CALIF. – September 17, 2018 – Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection and security software provider, today announced the general availability of KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) 9.0. A comprehensive, multi-platform endpoint and asset management solution that helps businesses proactively provision, manage, secure and service their growing endpoint environments.

Get started with server monitoring using Servitor.io

This guide will get you started with Servitor.io, how to setup your monitoring for your server. Since you are reading this I’m going to assume you made an account and are ready to rock! If you, click here to register one and continue. After registering you will be redirected to the dashboard.

6 Reasons to Start Monitoring the Performance of Your Applications

It’s no use computerize your entire company and introducing a poor, slow, or difficult usability system. To effectively anticipate this type of scenario and avoid jobs and headaches for your team, APM – Application Performance Monitoring – comes as a good alternative. Through it, you can analyze how your team is using enterprise applications. With this, you can better understand whether these applications are offering problems or solutions. But the advantages do not stop there.

Life and Times of an SRE Product Owner

We’re back with another employee spotlight! Last month, we spoke to Senior Front-End Developer Mark Smith, who works out of our San Francisco office. This month, we (virtually) crossed over to the opposite coast and spent some time getting to know Marguerite des Trois Maisons, who works out of our new Toronto office as the product owner on our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team.