How to monitor and troubleshoot S.M.A.R.T. attributes
Understand what makes a storage device S.M.A.R.T and how to monitor a self monitoring component using Netdata.
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Grafana vs. Power BI vs SquaredUp
You’re part of a data-driven engineering team. You have a rich, complex, and dynamic set of tools but you’re struggling to discover and share insights from all that data. So, you're looking for a platform that will help unify it all. Naturally, you want to compare Grafana vs. Power BI - the big names. Plus, there's a new player on the block - SquaredUp.
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Splunk Monitoring: What is it and How Can You Use it?
Over the last couple of years, there has been exponential growth in the volume and variety of machine data. The main reason has been the ever-growing number of connected machines in IT infrastructure, the sophistication of data algorithms, and the increased use of IoT devices. This data has proven to be quite valuable - even necessary - as an organisation can analyse and use it to drive productivity, improve efficiency, and gain visibility for their business. There is a catch: to make the machine data work for them, organisations need a simplified tool that can analyse and visualise. This is where Splunk comes in.
Single Vendor vs Best of Breed Solutions: A Livestream Debate on 2023 Trends
Will companies seek out best of breed solutions or stick to single vendor ecosystems. Traditionally, companies have liked dealing with vendors that could provide broad solutions to limit the number of vendors they had to deal with and make integregration easier. Companies would tolerate less than ideal tool capabilities because the strength of tools working together as a solution outweighed capability issues with any one tool. Times are changing and integration is easier than ever.
How to monitor Kubernetes clusters with the Prometheus Operator
Kubernetes has become the preferred tool for DevOps engineers to deploy and manage containerized applications on one or multiple servers. These compute nodes are also known as clusters, and their performance is crucial to the success of an application. If a Kubernetes cluster isn’t performing optimally, the application’s availability and performance will suffer, leading to unhappy users and even revenue loss.
Citrix Latency: Why it Matters and How to Improve it?
Are Citrix latency causing issues for your end users? Pin-pointing the root-cause of latency can be a challenge because it can occur in any part of the network and in any tier. Knowing where to start troubleshooting can mean the difference between end-users not noticing and a flood of support tickets on the service desk. In this guide I teamed up with eG Innovations to talk about what Citrix latency is, why it matters, and how we can improve it.
Advocacy and Closing Sales Through Harry Potter
In this week's podcast episode, we welcome guest, Gordie Flowers, Senior Account Executive at AWS, who shares his insights and experience around diversity, advocacy, and all things IT.
Guided Kubernetes Troubleshooting: How to Reduce Toil for Dev Teams
This blog post is a how-to guide for Kubernetes troubleshooting. Our vision is that any engineer can keep Kubernetes-based applications up and running smoothly, regardless of their level of Kubernetes expertise and their knowledge of the services in the environment. Right out of the box, StackState aims to monitor, alert and then guide an engineer directly to the problem, helping them remediate the issue quickly.
The Complete Guide to Server Monitoring and How It Can Help You Save Money
Most people are unaware of the “full stack” in web development that includes the front-end user interface, middleware servers, and backend database. Casual technology users around the world usually only experience the front end, which renders the cute graphics and friendly colors your brain enjoys seeing as you browse, shop, and comment on social media.
Learn How to Streamline Endpoint Data Collection and Send it to Grafana Cloud for Monitoring with Cribl Edge
You’re responsible for administering hundreds to thousands of server endpoints deployed at your company. You receive daily requests from the application teams requiring agents be installed on new servers, from the compliance team tracking agent upgrades and from the operations team concerned logs and metrics are missing from the dashboards they’re monitoring. You review your workload and realize you must log into each individual server for every request you’ve received.