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Getting Started with Prometheus and Grafana

The world is moving towards a data-driven society, resulting in businesses gathering more data to leverage for profit. This data is either in structured forms like JSON/CSV/XML or unstructured forms like text written on a notepad or typed texts. Regardless of the data’s formatting, the important thing is the information it contains. Various tools in the market extract data from different agents and platforms that will improve your metric monitoring system.

Add severity levels to your alert policies in Cloud Monitoring

When you are dealing with a situation that fires a bevy of alerts, do you instinctively know which alerts are the most pressing? Severity levels are an important concept in alerting to aid you and your team in properly assessing which notifications should be prioritized. You can use these levels to focus on the issues deemed most critical for your operations and triage through the noise.

How to Run Java Inside Docker: Best Practices for Building Containerized Web Applications [Tutorial]

Containers are no longer a thing of the future – they are all around us. Companies use them to run everything – from the simplest scripts to large applications. You create a container and run the same thing locally, in the test environment, in QA, and finally in production. A stateless box built with minimal requirements and unlike virtual machines – without the need of virtualizing the whole operating system.

Debugging JAXB Production Issues

Java Architecture for XML Binding (AKA JAXB API) is a popular API for marshaling XML data. It’s a framework for mapping between XML documents and Java POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects, AKA regular Java classes) almost seamlessly. The API is very easy to use and many frameworks leverage it to provide their XML support. JAXB2.0 has gained popularity both in desktop applications (Java SE) and in application server code (Spring Boot, Java EE/Jakarta EE, Microprofile etc.).

What is SecOps?

SecOps is a short form for Security Operations, a methodology that aims to automate crucial security tasks, with the goal of developing more secure applications. The purpose of SecOps is to minimize security risks during the development process and daily activities. Under a joint SecOps strategy, the security and operations teams work together to maintain a safe environment by identifying and resolving vulnerabilities and resolving any security issues.

InfluxData Recognized for Industry Leadership in 2022 Data Breakthrough Awards

InfluxDB wins Best Use of Data for IoT Applications category SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced InfluxDB has been named a winner in the Data Breakthrough Awards for the Best Use of Data for IoT Applications category. Conducted by Data Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization, the awards recognize the top companies, technologies and products in the global data technology market today.

What's next for the Internet of Things?

IoT devices seem to be ubiquitous, but the truth is we’re not nearly there yet. In fact, IoT Analytics continues to predict steady growth as the future for IoT for years to come, with more than 27 billion devices online by 2025. They’re not alone in their bullish IoT predictions either. MarketsAndMarkets projects the global IoT market will more than double from 2021 to 2026, growing from just over $300 billion to over $650 billion.

Shadow DOMs come to light with Uptrends Transaction Monitor

If you build or manage websites that rely heavily on transaction monitoring technology, then you are probably acutely aware that as these applications grow, they often encounter brittleness based on interactions between HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. Fortunately, developers have arrived at a solution to circumvent these problems in the form of shadow Doms.

NiCE VMware Management Pack 5.5 Release | Cross-Datacenter HA Monitoring

Unlock business benefits by monitoring your VMware‘s High Availability infrastructure. Secure, protect, and manage your VMware environment and digital workspaces based on advanced analytics. The NiCE VMware Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager provides a complete and easy-to-set-up VMware monitoring suite. Auto-Discovery, out-of-the-box metrics, graphs, reports, and enriched alert content help you spot and solve issues before they affect the system.