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SolarWinds: Up, Down, Gone: A Tale of Applications and Flow

Business productivity relies on users being able to access critical applications. Do you have visibility into how application traffic is flowing through your network? See how SolarWinds® Bandwidth Analyzer Pack (BAP) can help speed up troubleshooting and help you develop remediation plans to keep your users online. Join us for a webcast where we walk through troubleshooting common scenarios.

SolarWinds: Solving for Both Sides: Security for Inside and Outside Threats

At SolarWinds, we build products designed to address IT management and security needs, aligning with how today’s technology professionals work on a day-to-day basis. Companies simply must increase their vigilance and implement better security around access to their systems and data—from both the outside and inside. IT operations professionals need to monitor their environment around the clock to protect their organizations against external cyberattacks and insider threats, via policies and procedures that limit access to sensitive systems and data.

Instrumental

Instrumental is an application and infrastructure monitoring service for large scale web and mobile apps. We go beyond basic hardware, server and performance monitoring. If it moves, our customizable metrics can graph it, and our powerful query language will help you analyze your data.

Monitoring Apache Spark applications running on Amazon EMR

We recently implemented a Spark streaming application, which consumes data from from multiple Kafka topics. The data consumed from Kafka comprises different types of telemetry events generated by mobile devices. We decided to host the Spark cluster using the Amazon EMR service, which manages a fleet of EC2 instances to run our data-processing pipelines.

Could knowledge sharing transform your company culture?

When you take a step back and think about society’s big technological breakthroughs — the printing press, the television, the Internet — they were revolutionary because they completely disrupted the way that the world shares knowledge. If you haven’t heard of it, knowledge sharing is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: it’s the exchange of information between different people, teams, organizations, or communities.

Monthly Snap October: Icinga Camps and Meetups

We’re in OSMC mode in October which typically means that expectations are high, time is limited and everyone is busy preparing talks, demos, implementing new features … but also fixing things. Icinga 2.10 brings support for namespaces, improved TLS connection performance and much more. Community members tackled some bugs already, 2.10.1 is released and 2.10.2 is waiting for test feedback from the snapshot packages.