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NiCE: VMware monitoring made easy | NiCE VMware Management Pack 5.0

Health and performance monitoring for your business critical VMware environments is key. The NiCE VMware Management Pack helps you taming highly dynamical virtualized environments. Even overcoming the specter of service outages has become viable. Learn how to leverage your existing investment, reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies that will last beyond your expectations.

Rancher: Kubernetes Master Class: Deploying your Applications in a Repeatable Way on Kubernetes

Helm Charts have proven to be very useful for developers looking to create repeatable deployments of their applications. Rancher, with its built in Helm interface, allows developers to deploy their applications using Helm charts. This training will go over using Rancher's pre-provisioned catalog apps, as well as demonstrate the creation of metadata for custom catalog apps to provide the Rancher questions interface to users who wish to deploy their own Helm Charts.

Elastic: Elastic Uptime: Actively Monitor the Availability of Your Systems and Services

Web applications continue to rely on an increasing number of services, both internal and external. Operation teams face a wider footprint of things to monitor that are not all in their control. By using the new Elastic Uptime solution, they can detect when services are down or responding slowly. With alerting, they can get proactively notified even before those services are called by the application.

Squadcast

Squadcast is an Intelligent Incident management, monitoring & Alerting platform that improves your reliability by helping SRE and DevOps teams to adopt IT Incident Management best practices like intelligent alert routing, on-call rotations, collaboration, response automation, root cause analysis, blameless postmortems, etc.

What Do People Love About Rancher?

More than 20,000 environments have chosen Rancher as the solution to make the Kubernetes adventure painless in as many ways as possible. More than 200 businesses across finance, health care, military, government, retail, manufacturing, and entertainment verticals have recognized that Rancher simply works better than other solutions.

Introducing the Rollbar Pipe for Bitbucket Pipelines

Automating your deployment process is a critical step towards adopting continuous delivery. For teams that use Bitbucket for hosting their source code, Bitbucket Pipelines provide an easy way to automatically build and deploy when changes are made in your origin repository. The Rollbar team is excited to participate in the launch of Bitbucket Pipes, which make it even easier to configure your pipeline.

6 Things To Consider When Choosing A Log Management Solution

The days when you could simply SSH into a server and perform a fancy grep are long gone. If you’re reading this article, chances are either you are looking to move from that obsolete approach to a centralized logging approach with a log management tool, or you are looking for an alternative log management tool to replace your existing solution. Problem is, there are so many different tools out there, making a choice can be overwhelming. So how do you pick the right solution?

Avoid Prolonged Downtime With a Website Backup and Recovery Plan

Website downtime is inevitable. Extreme weather, equipment upgrades, or major site updates are all ripe conditions for downtime. However, there’s always a problem we don’t see coming. A website backup and recovery plan is essential to keep unplanned downtime from severely impacting your business. If you already have a plan, use this guide to revise or make changes to your existing one.