Often I am asked how I always seem calm and poised during incidents. This persona is not entirely accurate as I am more like a duck in these scenarios, calm on top of the water, but paddling frantically under the water. I have learned some tricks that have helped me stay calm and drive incidents to resolution.
Today we are happy to announce the general availability of CFEngine 3.12.0 LTS beta. The release of 3.12.0 beta took longer than expected. As a result we have decided to adjust our release schedule, and we releasing 3.12.0 beta now and later this year 3.12.0 will be the next official LTS release.
In the previous two parts of OpenTracing series, we provided a good OpenTracing overview, explaining what OpenTracing is and does, how it works and what it aims to achieve and looked at Zipkin – a popular open-source distributed tracer. In this blog post, we will look at Jaeger, a newer open-source distributed tracer developed under the CNCF umbrella.
We’re excited to announce that Sensu 2.0 Beta is now publicly available for testing! Sensu 2.0 is easier to install and operate, requiring only a single sensu-backend process and sensu-agent process that communicate directly with each other. Our new API-driven approach gives you more flexibility when integrating Sensu into your existing infrastructure and tools. We believe this newest release is built to scale and meet the needs not only of your infrastructure today, but for years to come.
Development and operations (DevOps) teams must measure their day-to-day progress. Otherwise, these teams won’t know how they are performing at a given moment. Worst of all, DevOps teams that lack data-driven insights risk falling behind, missing service-level agreement (SLA) requirements and encountering various service problems that could put a company, its employees and its customers in danger.
As one of the most requested features we are happy to officially introduce the Uptime and Response time graphs. Setting up an uptime graph requires zero configuration, it’ll be added automatically to your status page (for startup & business subscribers) and you can choose to hide it in the design page of your admin panel.
Help desk technicians form the front line of support in identifying, troubleshooting, and preventing end user performance issues (and costly downtime) for key applications and services. They need to quickly identify the scope of the issue and route the critical details required to fix the issue – fast. Goliath Technologies increases the troubleshooting and remediation abilities of help desk technicians by placing a vast array of tools at their fingertips.
Helping to protect IT environments from cyber attacks and comply with tightening compliance standards, SIEM systems are becoming the cornerstone for security paradigms implemented by a growing number of organizations.
How do you capture and organize billions of measurements per second such that you can answer a rich set of queries effectively (percentiles, counts below X, aggregations across streams), and you don’t blow through your AWS budget in minutes? To effectively manage billions of data points, your system has to be both performant and scalable. How do you accomplish that? Not only do your algorithms have to be on point, but your implementation of them has to be efficient.
Born to be wild. We’ve been busy with bringing Elasticstack integration into full shape with the Icinga 2 feature and the corresponding Icinga Web 2 module. Both of them were thankfully funded and sponsored by VW. Elasticsearch 6 support is sponsored by a customer too, this will hit 2.9 later in June. Earlier in 2017 we’ve also released the Logstash output for Icinga.
