Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a managed compute platform for containers that was designed to be simple to configure, with opinionated defaults to help users get started quickly. ECS customers can run containerized workloads on either Amazon EC2 instances or the serverless Fargate platform without having to maintain a control plane—and can easily integrate ECS with other AWS resources, like Network Load Balancers, to architect their infrastructure.

Software errors are annoying – they are troublesome for IT departments and affect many company processes. A software error is essentially a mismatch between what is expected of the program and the produced output. Sometimes these software errors could have negligible impact, while on other occasions, they could wreak absolute havoc, especially for industries like banking, healthcare, airlines, and stock markets.

Logz.io is always looking to improve the user experience when it comes to Kubernetes and monitoring your K8s architecture. We’ve taken another step with that, adding OpenTelemetry instrumentation with Helm charts. We have made Helm charts available before, previously with editions suitable for Metricbeat and for Prometheus operators.

I’m a Data Architect and I’ve been working with data and databases for years at companies like LA Fitness, Dell and now Kingston Technology in Fountain Valley, California. Over all of that time, I’ve used SQL Monitor. I loved it from the beginning and the latest updates to the global overview dashboard and other features have stepped it up another few notches.

In the face of unexpected crises or disruptions, maintaining business continuity has become more important than ever. Last year, businesses around the world had to shift to a remote workforce model overnight. Were their IT departments prepared for this massive shift?

In this post we’ll review some of the essential ideas in Load Balancing to help you understand how to get the best configuration for your application. Load balancing is an essential part of any application deployment to provide high availability, performance and security. We’ll focus on understanding and selecting scheduling and persistence algorithms and using the new LoadMaster Network Telemetry feature to validate the results.

Every enterprise has its arsenal of tech tools to tackle an array of different challenges. If you’re using SquaredUp for SCOM, you already have the best dashboard for SCOM data – but what if you could track all the metrics from all your tools on a single dashboard? Typically, to get the full picture of your infrastructure, you need the right toolset to connect to Web API, a SQL database, or through other means.

Choosing the appropriate tools and approaches to utilize for application performance management can quickly become confusing. That's why it's important to remember that the ultimate goal of monitoring is to figure out two things: And there may be no better beginning point than incorporating real-user monitoring (RUM) using a performance monitoring solution to get as close as feasible to meet both objectives.

In the past year, Microsoft Teams has become one of the top videoconferencing and telecommunications platforms that have helped keep businesses productive throughout this global pandemic. Pivoting to remote/hybrid work environments in the long term is more easily achieved with a service like Microsoft Teams, which makes ensuring and maintaining optimal service on your end that much more important. Behold the key to help improve business productivity and optimize your Teams performance.

I recently got a couple of Philips Hue Play lights to spice up my home office setup, and after a bit of tinkering with the APIs, I decided it would be a fun project to create my own personal NOC room, using them to visualize the status of some system I’m monitoring.