Centralized Log Management offers the visibility you need to optimize your cloud usage to keep infrastructure costs down. Cloud-first infrastructures are the future of modern business operations. As organizations like Google and Twitter announce long-term plans for enabling a remote workforce, maintaining a competitive business model includes scaled cloud services adoption. While the cloud offers scalability that can save money with pay-as-you-need services, managing the costs is challenging.

We are glad to introduce IPHost mobile app (currently available for Android 4.4 or newer). To start using Push notifications on your Android device(s), please upgrade your IPHost installation to v5.3 or later version. You would also need an Android mobile device running free IPHost mobile app. We have added a quick start reference for IPHost mobile app; it typically takes less than 5 minutes to install the app, connect it to the IPHost desktop installation and commence receiving Push notifications.

Exciting news for our Heroku community — Raygun Real User Monitoring (RUM) is now available on the Heroku Marketplace. Now, you can monitor performance trends, identify and diagnose performance problems, and improve your customers’ experience directly through your Heroku account.

In the world of SRE, incidents are unplanned investments in reliability. Why? Because they are valuable opportunities to learn and grow. This perspective can be difficult to communicate to other stakeholders. Some may be upset about the cost incurred or the affected customers. Others might not understand why incidents happen in the first place. It is important to show how the lessons of an incident are relevant to each stakeholder role.

We just released a Magic Dashboard for Garbage Collection stats for our Node.js integration. If you are leaking memory, this dashboard will help you discover and fix this problem. No setting up is required, this dashboard will magically automatically appear among the rest of your dashboards. ✨

Several months ago I started the practice of using CFEngine Enterprise and its Mission Portal UI on a daily basis to manage the connected devices in my home. To start, I brought up an old desktop machine, cfengine-hub, to use as my hub and downloaded Enterprise, which is free for use up to 25 hosts. The next step in using best practices is to deploy policy from a version control repository.

New year, new SRE! We’ve said goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021. Here’s some of the most exciting Tweets, content, and events happening in the SRE and resilience engineering community so far this year.

This article is a full tutorial on HAProxy monitoring and the best tools to get it done right. We will be looking into how to collect HAProxy metrics using a collectd daemon, push them into Graphite and visualize them in Grafana. To follow the steps in this blog, sign up for the MetricFire free trial, where you can use Graphite and Grafana directly in our platform.

Network security has changed a lot over the years, it had to. From wide open infrastructures to tightly controlled environments, the standard practices of network security have grown more and more sophisticated. This post will take us back in time to look at the journey that a typical network has been on over the past 15+ years. From a wide open, “chewy” network, all the way to zero trust networking. Let’s get started.

Are you in two minds when it comes to learning new programming languages? Probably you may feel the same when you first heard about Rust programming language. Good things require some effort and here's what I have to say after using Rust programming language in production for a 6-month duration – It is great and Simply superb! Let's get the clear practical experience picture with Rust at Qovery.