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Set up Your K3s Cluster for High Availability on DigitalOcean

In this post, we will outline a reference architecture for setting up K3s in a High Availability (HA) configuration. This means that your K3s cluster can tolerate a failure and remain up and running and serving traffic to your users. Your applications should also be built and configured for high availability, but that is beyond the scope of this tutorial. K3s is a lightweight certified Kubernetes distribution developed at Rancher Labs that built is for IoT and edge computing.

Public Team Calendars

Today, we are excited to announce PagerTree has added support for public calendars! Public calendars allow you to share a team’s on-call calendar with the rest of the world. Public Calendars are available on our Pro and Elite pricing plans. If you don’t already have an account, sign up for a free-trial now. By default, all calendars are private, so to make use of this feature you must enable it.

The Love/Hate Relationship with Legacy Software

Legacy systems have a bad rap. But let’s face it: enterprises rely upon them, especially in traditional sectors like financial services, transportation, manufacturing, logistics and government. How do you decide whether to keep, upgrade or outright replace legacy software? How do you balance new competitive needs with financial constraints in IT? OpsRamp’s senior product and engineering leaders, Bhanu Singh and Ciaran Byrne, will share their thoughts on legacy software --the good and the bad--in this live video chat.

[Webinar] Self-healing workflows with the Sensu Ansible Tower integration

Sensu Developer Advocate Jef Spaleta demos our Ansible Tower integration, walking through how it works, showing how you can achieve self-healing workflows and avoid manual workarounds with Sensu + Ansible. You'll also learn all about the Sensu Ansible Tower integration, including how it works with existing playbooks via Ansible Tower Job Templates.

Introducing the MongoDB Enterprise plugin for Grafana

MongoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL databases in the world, used by millions of developers to store application metrics from e-commerce transactions to hospital equipment inventory, from user logins to First World War diaries. MongoDB databases contain mountains of information that SREs, software engineers, and executives can visualize to run their businesses more effectively. Grafana dashboards are most effective when they are layered with context.

Remote Prometheus Monitoring using Thanos

In a previous blog we learnt about setting up a Scalable Prometheus-Thanos monitoring stack. We also learnt about how we can cluster multiple Prometheus servers with the help of Thanos and then deduplicate metrics and alerts across them. MetricFire is a Hosted Prometheus solution, and you can use our product with minimal configuration to gain in-depth insight into your environments. If you would like to learn more about it please book a demo with us, or sign up for the free trial today.