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Applicare 9 - SingleAgent with remote deployment and easy administration

Applicare 9 is a release focused on ease of use – SingleAgent, easy agent deployment and remote administration. Applicare 9 SingleAgent includes infrastructure monitoring, web servers monitoring, java app servers monitoring, databases monitoring and logs monitoring.

Grafana meetup recap: SLO tips, Agrology's IoT monitoring setup, and wide time series format

Last week at Grafana Labs, we launched our new Grafana Meetup Program with our East Coast Virtual Meetup. It was a ton of fun bringing together the community for this first event in our meetup series, but the road to getting here has been quite a journey! As a community-driven company, going more than a year without any in-person events has been pretty rough on all of us Grafanistas.

Use Process Metrics for troubleshooting and resource attribution

When you are experiencing an issue with your application or service, having deep visibility into both the infrastructure and the software powering your apps and services is critical. Most monitoring services provide insights at the Virtual Machine (VM) level, but few go further. To get a full picture of the state of your application or service, you need to know what processes are running on your infrastructure.

Adapting to New Federal Regulations on Cybersecurity and Log Management

The Biden administration signed an executive order recently to regulate security practices among federal agencies and establishments. The decision modernizes and improves government networks in pursuit of fool-proof federal cyber defense. This comes in the wake of a series of malicious cyberattacks that targeted both public and private entities in the past year. In the largest breach in US history, SolarWinds

An Overview of Intelligent Query Processing in SQL Server

When you issue a query to SQL Server or Azure SQL, it internally tries to optimize a query plan through calculations such as whether to use an index. Much of SQL Server’s query plans are based on its best guess of what will happen at run time when your query executes. Even when SQL Server guesses right, as your data changes (especially as the volume of data increases), optimal plans can end up performing so poorly, they can drag your whole system’s performance down.

How to monitor your first Host with Icinga Director

Creating a new Host within the Icinga 2 configuration files is fairly easy. Basically you only have add an object of the type “Host” to a config file and reload Icinga 2. Doing the same with Icinga Director is even easier, you don’t even have to bother with terminal editors and configuration files. However, what sounds so easy for an experienced user may not be so obvious for beginners.

New Google Cloud instance types on Elastic Cloud

We are excited to announce support for Google Compute Engine (GCE) N2 general purpose virtual machine (VM) types, and additional hardware configuration options powered by N2 custom machine types. N2 VMs leverage Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable processors and provide a balance of compute, memory, and storage. N2 machine types also offer more than a 20% improvement in price-performance over the first-generation N1 machines.