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Using the REST API Monitoring Support in WhatsUp Gold

With the REST API Monitoring in WhatsUp Gold's Application Performance Monitoring (APM), you can monitor applications by creating components in a custom Application Profile. For example, if you need to monitor PAS for OpenEdge, you can use the integrated Application Profile to query its OEManager and HealthCheck APIs. Our team of engineers has developed a comprehensive technical guide detailing exactly how to set up this kind of functionality in WhatsUp Gold.

Network Monitoring for Dummies

Network Monitoring For Dummies helps you recognize best practices for monitoring and managing your organization's network, how to grasp network monitoring fundamentals, define alerts and actions, and much more. In this special edition, you'll learn best practices and key concepts for network monitoring from WhatsUp Gold's Product Expert Mark Towler and author and editor Doug Barney.

Gremlin: How to Baseline and Improve Reliability with Automated Scoring

Organizations running complex distributed systems face a reliability gap. Improving reliability starts with measuring it, but most organizations can only observe what's already gone wrong. Teams are beginning to drive reliability improvements by proactively measuring, testing, and automating reliability before incidents. This webinar walks through the practice of automated Reliability Scoring and how it can drive improvements across your organization. You'll learn strategies to help you implement Reliability Scoring and see tools you can use to automate the process at scale.

What Are The Most Popular Text Fonts In 2022?

It's easy to have overlooked some of the tiny details, like how typography has changed rather radically because we've been so preoccupied with how the pandemic has changed the way we work and live in general. Today, sharp, oversized characters are prevalent, along with a steady return to the familiarity and comfort of vintage typefaces like 1970s serifs. In addition, several entertaining new fonts have been released to help us forget about recent international events.

Why Are My Photos Blurry?

Imagine the picture: you return home after a beautiful photo shoot and eagerly run to your computer to look at the wonderful photos you've taken. However, after importing it becomes clear that all the pictures can be scrapped because they are blurry. Even professional photographers have to delete more than one promising shot just because it wasn't sharp enough. Let's face it, protecting your lens is very important. We recommend reading the article about when to use a lens hood on Skylum's blog page.
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How to Test Autoscaling in Kubernetes

In an ideal world, you want to have precisely the capacity to manage the requests of your users, from peak periods to off-peak hours. If you need three servers to attend to all the requests at peak periods and just one server at off-peak hours, running three servers all the time is going to drive up expenses, and running just one server all the time is going to mean that during peak periods, your systems will be overwhelmed and some clients will be denied service.

Cluster Monitoring with Prometheus and Rancher

In this article, we present an overview of cluster monitoring using Rancher and Prometheus as well as provide some brief setup tutorials for both tools. We further introduce a metric visualization tool called Grafana that transforms your Prometheus time-series data into graphs and visualizations. MetricFire specializes in monitoring systems. You can use this product with minimal configuration to gain in-depth insight into your environment.

How to Monitor Redis Performance

In this article, we are going to look at how to monitor Redis performance using Prometheus. This will allow Redis Administrators to centrally manage all of their Redis clusters without setting up any additional infrastructure for monitoring. To follow the steps in this blog, sign up for the MetricFire free trial, where you can use Graphite and Grafana directly on our platform.