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14 Alternatives to Monitis for Ping and Web Monitoring

Monitis, once a stand alone monitoring solution, has become Teamviewer Web Monitoring. If you don’t like or don’t need the changes offered you may be looking for alternatives to Monitis. Monitoring is integral to your growing suite of web and application monitoring, and it can be difficult to find a replacement that will do everything you need in one software.

Kubernetes Logging Simplified - Pt 2: Kubernetes Events

In my first post in the Kubernetes Logging Simplified blog series, I touched on some of the ‘need to know’ concepts and architectures to effectively manage your application logs in Kubernetes – providing steps on how to implement a Cluster-level logging solution to debug and analyze your application workloads. In my second post, I’m going to touch on another signal to keep an eye on: Kubernetes events.

Using Telegraf plugins to visualize industrial IoT data with the Grafana Cloud Hosted Prometheus service

One of the biggest challenges with data visualization for complicated software systems is getting quick access to the underlying data and connecting it to some form of cloud-hosted solution. Traditionally it has required quite a bit of middleware and upfront setup with additional tooling.

ITSM Request Portal in Jira Service Management

At the heart of ITSM is the belief that IT should be delivered as a service. Day-to-day ITSM can be as simple as a request for new hardware or a collaborative response to reports of a business-critical outage. Customers submit requests through a custom Jira Service Management portal, filling out tickets with information tailored for an agile response, and simultaneously kicking off workflows. Tickets land in the IT team’s queue, where incoming requests are sorted and addressed.

Conquering the Next Normal: Monitoring Techniques to Keep Up With the Pace of Change in 2021

In 2020, IT pros across the globe had to make snap decisions to keep the business running. Now, organizations are revisiting those decisions, ensuring they work as expected and adjusting as needed. The unavoidable truth is the only way to know how things are operating now is to monitor them. The question in the mind of many IT practitioners is whether monitoring solutions are up to the task of encompassing the vast array of technical solutions organizations embraced in the last year.

Deploying infrastructure with an approval job using Terraform

If you are looking for an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, Terraform probably tops your list. In this tutorial, you will learn how to automate the deployment of changes to your infrastructure using Terraform and CircleCI workflows. The workflows will use Approval Jobs. For this project, we will deploy the infrastructure we build to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).