In a recent experiment with my colleagues, I polled them about the following: “What would they do if the lights went out as you worked at night?” Besides identifying the funny and who-you-want-in-case-of-an-emergency responses, most of my colleagues checked to see if the problem might be broader than their own home.

This blog article will cover how to monitor your nginx web server with Bleemeo, what is monitored and graphed by default and how to go further by configuring custom dashboards to have a global overview of your infrastructure.

For teams that build or maintain modern applications with their end-users in mind, the acquisition of Rigor means that Splunk now offers the most comprehensive synthetic monitoring solution on the market. Rigor, now Splunk Synthetic Monitoring and Web Optimization, provides best-in-class synthetic monitoring capabilities enabling IT Ops and engineering teams to detect and respond to uptime and performance issues within incident response coordination and throughout software development lifecycles.

In buildings today, there are numerous systems that require regular maintenance or that need attention as quickly as possible if problems are detected. This applies, for example, to heating systems, air conditioning, cooling, ventilation, elevators or fire alarm systems. Modern facility management systems are able to reliably monitor such systems.

As we look to continue to provide value to our Remediate customers, we focused on how we create simple and effective workflows in the product. Our customers have told us there are some really important quality of life features that would go a long way in helping reduce the pain and frustration of remediating vulnerabilities and enable them to better communicate with their security partners.

Monitoring AWS RDS may require some observability strategy changes if you switched from a classic on-prem MySQL/PostgreSQL solution. AWS RDS is a great solution that helps you focus on the data, and forget about bare metal, patches, backups, etc. However, since you don’t have direct access to the machine, you’ll need to adapt your monitoring platform.

Site Reliability Engineers are expected to know everything that’s happening, all of the time. That’s a lot of things! To help you sift through the noise, we’ve developed a feature that lets you find accurate data about your organization on-demand. You can do this by sending custom-designed commands to FireHydrant directly from your integrated Slack account.

Telepresence 2 was recently released and (like Telepresence 1) it is a worthy addition to your Kubernetes tool chest. Telepresence is one of those tools you cannot live without after discovering how your daily workflow is improved. So what is Telepresence? It is too hard to describe all the functionalities of the tool in a single sentence, but for now I would describe it as the “Kubernetes swiss army networking tool”.

Every engineering team has their own approach when it comes to development methodologies. Most teams have embraced popular frameworks, Agile Scrum seems to be the most popular, both putting their own spin on it and choosing the parts that work for them. Despite any differences, we’re all out to achieve the same goal. We want a process that scales with our organizations and results in happy teams, high velocity, and quality software.

The exponential growth of machine generated data in recent years has created the need for solutions purpose-built to handle extremely high-frequency telemetry data. This has driven increasingly more organizations to adopt time series databases and address the unique challenges around ingesting, analyzing, and storing massive amounts of time-series data.