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How MSPs Should Implement Tech Standards

All MSPs would like to have a higher level of standardization across their customer base. Standardization lowers support cost and reduces your customers risks. Standardization has become more important and more complicated as your customers security and compliance requirements have increased. TruMethods President Gary Pica will share a step by step process for building and administering technical standards across your customers technical environments.

The SOP Advantage: How to Build a Culture of Documentation in Your MSP - Auvik Networks

Standard operating procedures—SOPs—are a well-known path to increasing efficiency in your MSP business. But where do you start? How do you organize it? You’ll find answers in this one-hour webinar with Nigel Moore, a former MSP owner who now coaches managed service providers in his Tech Tribe community.

Icinga 2.9.2 released

Icinga 2 v2.9 introduced performance related changes inside the configuration compilation and activation order. This was to ensure a) no unwanted notifications b) use available CPU resources to speed up the overall validation process. These changes had a bad effect on configuration depending on a specific activation order, and slowed it down with many config objects of a specific type. The Icinga Director depends on get_host() being called in service objects to support specific service set overrides.

PHP Performance: Five Types of Tools You Need To Know

To all the developers out there, it is highly advisable that every application you build should have tools that will monitor performance and ensure that it runs correctly. There are a variety of tools available that can monitor your application’s performance. Choosing the right tool that caters to your organization’s needs should be a priority.

Container Monitoring Overview with Sysdig Monitor

Watch this overview of Sysdig Monitor for an in depth look at how to monitor Docker containers, Prometheus metrics and more. Sysdig ContainerVision sees inside containers from the outside and ServiceVision enriches container metrics with service-oriented metadata from Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm, and Mesos - DC/OS.

Get your own Uptrends Checkpoint

Your private network is teeming with web services (APIs), intranet, business applications like CRMs and ERPs, acceptance and preproduction environments, databases, and other servers. Your business relies on your network infrastructure to function every day. Each part of that infrastructure needs to be available, performing, and functioning well to keep your business humming along.