Recently, we began using IP geolocation within StatusGator to learn where are users are located. We are happy to say that it’s working out well. We hoped to use these insights to tune our marketing. To that end, we added the Ahoy gem to help collect information related to how our advertising campaigns are going. The Ahoy gem also uses the geolocation gem to lookup IP addresses. This significantly increased the number of IP geolocation lookups.

The world of DevOps is a pretty confusing place for folks just starting out. Even figuring out what “DevOps” means can be hard. Is it CI/CD with Kubernetes and Serverless to drive Agile product iterations? Or is it SSH-ing into a box and restarting Apache? You guessed it. All of the above and most things in between.

In many projects, the product development workflow has three main concerns: building, testing, and deployment. Each change to the code means something could accidentally go wrong, so in order to prevent this from happening developers adopt many strategies to diminish incidents and bugs. Jenkins, and other continuous integration tools (CI) are used together with a source version software (such as GIT) to test and quickly evaluate the updated code.

Cron job failures create chaos for your users and your team. After analyzing over a million failure reports these 4 problems emerged as the most likely causes of preventable job failures.

Lately, IT teams are looking for Docker monitoring tools as legacy products like cAdvisor and Sysdig cloud do not offer greater insights. Docker monitoring needs a crucial change in the way your agents, plug-ins, and monitoring works to support containers. Many enterprises have started deploying significant production workloads on Docker, it seems there is a substantial shift towards adopting Docker.