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How Cox Automotive's IT Operations Team Relies On Monitoring To Help Bring 27 Company Brands and Over 700 Applications Under One Roof

Cox Automotive is a global company with over 40,000 auto dealer clients across five continents. The company, which houses Kelly Blue Book, Autotrader, and 25 other brands, was built through acquisitions. Its IT Operations team is tasked with bringing them together under the Cox Automotive umbrella and ensuring “a good, consistent experience” for its customers worldwide.

Releasing Icinga Web v2.9.2

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.7.6, v2.8.4 and v2.9.2. All are standard bugfix releases and include fixes found by the community since the latest releases. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please make sure to also check the respective upgrading section in the documentation. This release is accompanied by the minor releases v2.7.6 and v2.8.4 which include the fix for the flattened custom variables.

Three Key Takeaways from The State of Digital Operations Report 2021

2020 heralded a year of increased complexity and customer demands, which isn’t going away. In this new normal, organizations will still be tasked with keeping up this break-neck pace. So, what did digital operations look like in 2020 compared to 2019?

Monitoring Kubernetes the Elastic way using Filebeat and Metricbeat

In my previous blog post, I demonstrated how to use Prometheus and Fluentd with the Elastic Stack to monitor Kubernetes. That’s a good option if you’re already using those open source-based monitoring tools in your organization. But, if you’re new to Kubernetes monitoring, or want to take full advantage of Elastic Observability, there is an easier and more comprehensive way. In this blog, we will explore how to monitor Kubernetes the Elastic way: using Filebeat and Metricbeat.

How to monitor Cassandra database clusters

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed NoSQL database management system that was released by Facebook almost 12 years ago. It’s designed to handle vast amounts of data, with high availability and no single point of failure. It is a wide-column store, meaning that it organizes related facts into columns. Columns are grouped into “column families.” The benefit is that you can manage data that just won’t fit on one computer.

AI in Predictive Maintenance and Forecasting

Industry 4.0 is taking every industry by storm with unprecedented advancement with innovative technology solutions. Its key technologies such as automation, AI, ML, Data Analytics and IoT enables industries to drive business operations with automated data-driven intelligence. Integrating the physical and digital systems, the manufacturing industry is increasingly adopting intelligent manufacturing in this Industry 4.0 era.

Sysdig: Improve Your Capacity Planning for Kubernetes

As the number of Kubernetes clusters grows higher, the ability to get an accurate view of your overall capacity and especially limits and requests becomes more difficult. Costs can rise and it will also make deployments more difficult to schedule. Join us to discover an easier way to find out which clusters are over or underutilized, where in your environment has room to grow, and which workloads are the most greedy. We will show you how to identify unused resources and how to rightsize the capacity of your clusters.

Sysdig: Simplifying the Prometheus Experience

Prometheus is the second most popular cloud native project and is used by DevOps teams to monitor cloud native workloads. It's clear that companies want to standardize on this open source platform. However, as the number of Prometheus servers grows, maintaining scale and operations to support servers, exporters, queries, dashboards, and alerts becomes a burden. SREs and developers need an easy-to-use Prometheus monitoring solution that integrates into DevOps workflows without breaking open source standards.