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SquaredUp for SCOM - Quick Win Video Series - Part 7: Using a NOC Dashboard

Aug 7, 2020 By Squared Up In Squared Up

In this series we take you through some of the fundamentals of building and designing your own dashboards. We look at some of the tile types and visualizations that are available, show you how to run SCOM agent tasks from SquaredUp, and finish up with an example of using a SquaredUp dashboard to troubleshoot an issue. This video focuses on how to use a NOC dashboard. We’ll now use a NOC dashboard, and the drilldowns in SquaredUp, to help us resolve a problem in our environment.

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Jaeger Essentials: Best Practices for Deploying Jaeger on Kubernetes in Production

Aug 7, 2020 By Dotan Horovits In logz.io

Logs, metrics and traces are the three pillars of the Observability world. The distributed tracing world, in particular, has seen a lot of innovation in recent months, with OpenTelemetry standardization and with Jaeger open source project graduating from the CNCF incubation. According to the recent DevOps Pulse report, Jaeger is used by over 30% of those practicing distributed tracing.

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AWS Observability Demo

Aug 7, 2020 By Sumo Logic In Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic’s Continuous Intelligence Platform™ for AWS Observability enables visibility of AWS environments in a single-pane-of-glass while accelerating troubleshooting by surfacing Events of Interest correlated with application incidents using the Root Cause Explorer.

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Node.js Logging: A How-to Guide

Aug 7, 2020 By Mukul Khanna In Scout

When visiting a new website, it is quite normal to get carried away by the bells and whistles of the fancy UI and UX and not be able to appreciate all the lower level, back-end code that runs tirelessly to ensure a smooth and fast website experience. This is because your front-end HTML code has a visually rich browser page interface as a platform to showcase its output. Whereas your back-end, server-side code usually only has a console at its disposal.

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Website Benchmarking: An Example on How to Benchmark Performance Against Competitors

Aug 7, 2020 By John Demian In Sematext

Time to first byte, first contentful paint, DNS response time, round-trip time, and the list goes on and on. With all of these metrics, how are you supposed to know which are the most important ones that you should monitor? To understand what those numbers are supposed to look like, you’ll have to get a reference point. Something that’s supposed to give you a starting point.

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Papertrail Alerts

Aug 7, 2020 By Papertrail Team In SolarWinds

In a perfect world, how would like to learn about a problem? If you’re like the development team here at SolarWinds® Papertrail™, none of these options sound good. We’d all prefer to be notified when something starts to fail, but before there’s a service impact. At a minimum, we want to know the instant a service or application goes down. Fortunately, Papertrail has some powerful and easy-to-use alerting capabilities.

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How to Get Up to Speed at a New Gig in IT

Aug 7, 2020 By Sascha Giese In SolarWinds

When IT professionals change jobs, it isn’t always a smooth and easy transition. Let’s say you worked somewhere else for a couple of years and got used to the environment you worked in. It was your kitchen; you knew what was in each drawer and where to put everything away. And even though the technology will be the same at your new job (the network is the network, after all), there will still be significant differences.

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Pandora FMS 748 Release

Aug 7, 2020 By Pandora FMS team In Pandora FMS

These release notes describe new features, improvements and fixed issues in Pandora FMS NG 748. They also provide information about upgrades and describe some workarounds for known issues.

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What is a release? Vanessa Gil, Head of Development at Pandora FMS explains

Aug 7, 2020 By Laura Cano In Pandora FMS

What is a release? As many of you know, one stormy autumn night Pandora FMS team climbed to the most abrupt and outstanding peak of the surrounding area and swore, above all, to launch a release with new features and updates every month, whether it rained or thundered. And since that illustrious day, new releases have been launched to the delight of our followers.

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A Simple Introduction to AWS Step Functions

Aug 7, 2020 By Renato Byrro In Dashbird

Step Functions is a managed service by AWS that implements the Finite-state Machine (FSM) model. You coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows so you can build and update apps quickly. Using Step Functions, you can design and run workflows that stitch together services such as AWS Lambda and Amazon ECS into feature-rich applications. You can read Wikipedia’s definition of a Finite-state Machine, but I think you’ll like the next section more. Keep on reading.

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