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Best practices for tagging your infrastructure and applications

Most modern platforms like AWS and Kubernetes create dynamic environments by quickly spinning up instances or containers with significantly shorter lifespans than physical hosts. In these environments, where large-scale applications can be distributed across multiple ephemeral containers or instances, tagging is essential to monitoring services and underlying infrastructure.

Top Five Website Trends for 2020

The new year is fast approaching, and many of us will make resolutions in preparation for 2020. As you make your own personal pledge to change an undesired trait or behavior, or to accomplish a personal improvement goal, take a closer look at some of the changes you can make on the business side of things. Perhaps your organization’s websites could use some improvements of their own.

Understanding Java Garbage Collection Logging: What Are GC Logs and How To Analyze Them

When working with Java or any other JVM-based programming language we get certain functionalities for free. One of those functionalities is clearing the memory. If you’ve ever used languages like C/C++ you probably remember functions like malloc, calloc, realloc and free. We needed to take care of the assignment of each byte in memory and take care of releasing the assigned memory when it was no longer needed.

[WEBINAR] How to Build a World Class Monitoring Strategy

IT leaders agree that performance monitoring is absolutely critical to their success, yet the design and execution of a monitoring strategy can often be an afterthought. During this webinar, LogicMonitor and AWS will present the key components of a world-class performance monitoring strategy, along with a framework to improve monitoring effectiveness.

Boosting Orion Platform Performance With New Maps, Syslog/Trap Engines - SolarWinds Lab #82 (Part 1)

Want to learn a couple of easy ways to increase performance of your SolarWinds Orion Platform? Of course you do! In this networking-focused part one of our year-end performance series, Senior Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Product Manager Jason Carrier joins Head Geeks Patrick Hubbard and Sascha Giese to reveal how to free up CPU resources, load web views faster, and spend less time managing settings.