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Logging and monitoring Kubernetes

Kubernetes is first and foremost an orchestration engine that has well-defined interfaces that allow for a wide variety of plugins and integrations to make it the industry-leading platform in the battle to run the world's workloads. From machine learning to running the applications a restaurant needs, you can see that just about everything now uses Kubernetes infrastructure. All these workloads, and the Kubernetes operator itself, produce output that is most often in the form of logs.

NiCE Oracle Management Pack 5.3 released

Oracle is a highly performant and reliable multi-model database management system running online transaction processing, data warehousing, and mixed database workloads. Although Oracle environments are reliable and performant, monitoring dedicated Oracle on-premise or cloud deployments is crucial to safeguard business continuity.

Apica Quick Guides - Memu Player Setup for ZebraTester Recording

Have you ever wondered what that one checkbox does, where that button takes you or what a specific function does? These quick guides are designed to explain every function as quick and precise as possible so you can continue your monitoring without any disturbance. This guide assumes you already have your Memu Android Emulator and ZebraTester installed and the intention of this guide is to show you how to setup Memu in order to allow ZebraTester to record the traffic from it.

All About Solr Replica Placement Plugins

With Solr 9 the Autoscaling Framework was removed – for being too complex and not terribly reliable – and instead we have Replica Placement Plugins. Unlike Autoscaling, replica placement only happens when you create a collection or add a new replica. Hence the name: it’s about where to place these new replicas. In this article, we’ll look at the available replica placement plugins, what you can use them for and how to use them.

Get High-Performance, Enterprise-Class Observability With Sensu Go

Sensu offers a complete solution for infrastructure monitoring and observability, designed to give you visibility into all of your important infrastructure components, including containers, applications, traditional server closets, and the cloud. Sensu Go is a commercial product based on an open source core that is freely available under a permissive MIT License and publicly available on GitHub.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Kubernetes dashboard

Engineers need to understand the status of microservices run on EKS, like health status of clusters and nodes, to avoid issues impacting business critical microservices. Plus, you need to be able to keep an eye on EKS resources, including whether the Kubernetes cluster has auto-scaled (where enabled). Usually, to view these metrics, it requires looking at each EKS cluster and node group individually in the AWS Console, or via another complex third-party dashboarding tool. The data is siloed and difficult to consolidate.

Monitoring benchmark: how to generate 100 million samples/s of production-like data

Share: One of the latest benchmarks we did was for OSMC 2022 talk VictoriaMetrics: scaling to 100 million metrics per second - see the video and slides. While the fact that VictoriaMetrics can handle data ingestion rate at 100 million samples per second for one billion of active time series is newsworthy on its own, the benchmark tool used to generate that kind of load is usually overlooked. This blog post explains the challenges of scaling the prometheus-benchmark tool for generating such a load.

10 Points of consideration for investing in an Observability Platform for your organization.

10 Points of consideration for investing in an Observability Platform for your organization: Scalability Can the observability platform handle the volume of data that your organization generates? Compatibility Is the observability platform compatible with your organization's existing systems and technologies? Ease of use Is the observability platform user-friendly and easy for your team to adopt and use?

IT Workflow Explanation

IT Workflow Automation serves to automates the execution of IT tasks and processes. This can include everything from provisioning new servers and deploying software updates to monitoring and troubleshooting IT systems. Workflow automation helps organizations reduce the time and effort required to perform these tasks by automating manual processes and eliminating the need for manual intervention. It can also improve the accuracy and consistency of these processes, as there is less room for human error.

2023: Looking both ways...

As a small business, we at Monitive understand the importance of being mindful of both the past and the future. We've been in the uptime monitoring business for almost 13 years now and we are proud to say that in 2022, we had a decent financial performance. As we value transparency and honesty above all else, we're excited to share our accomplishments with you and also talk about our plans for 2023.