Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Sometimes a hat is just a hat, the truth is just the truth, and the clearly most popular example of a category is plain to see. In this case, Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution currently available. With the operating system’s superior popularity also comes an amazing amount of community support.

Today’s modern applications contain a broad set of microservices, with containers and serverless becoming the architectures of choice for many cloud applications. Both architectures facilitate highly scalable systems, and while which approach to take is routinely debated, containers and serverless technologies are being used in tandem more and more.

It is critical that access to any configuration changes or management actions made to monitoring platforms are logged and traceably audited. In this article, I will help you learn how to discover the auditing capabilities in IT monitoring tools. You will learn how to audit and manage the monitoring platform itself and make sure that it is being used appropriately.

VPNs: not just sponsors of YouTube tech videos! If you think of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) as data privacy tools or a way to access geographically restricted content, then the idea they’re dying out probably seems far-fetched. But if we’re talking about internet-based VPNs, the kind that enables access to corporate networks, there’s been plenty of prognostication that the last days of VPN may be upon us.

Since the beginning of the Internet, the speed of delivering content has been an issue. While processor enhancements, network acceleration, and web frameworks have brought drastic improvements to performance, the goalposts have continued to shift further away; devices operate on wireless connections with limited bandwidth, and the Internet is accessed from every corner of the globe.

At Pandora FMS we have IT professionals on an altar. Literally, one next to the water dispenser in the office. I’m serious! It even has its blessed liturgical cloth, its flattering parsley, its candles and the incense! But there are still things that these people miss. Here’s a hint: it’s related to ITOM.

In this article, let’s take a look at preconnect resource hints — what they are, why and how to use them, and best practices for auditing and scaling them.

This article helps you understand DNS prefetching, one type of resource hint, including what they are, why and how to use them, and best practices for auditing and scaling them.

Since early 2021, DigitalOcean and SolarWinds® Papertrail™ have worked together to improve the ease and efficiency of log management for infrastructure running on the DigitalOcean platform. The most exciting new development of this partnership is the availability of the Papertrail software as a service (SaaS) Add On in the DigitalOcean Marketplace.

Imagine this scenario. Your company has been laboring for months on an application and is finally releasing it. Your team has worked out all the potential issues and has created an all-encompassing project, but something is not right. There is an issue, and your team is getting some much-needed R&R. You come the next day and see a ton of irate emails. You have to go back to the drawing boards to figure out what went wrong before you release a fix. What I explained was a nightmare.