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Monitoring Citrix Real Time User Experience: See What Performance Your Users Are Getting

User experience is the biggest and most important factor in determining the success of Citrix rollout in an organization. When end-users are happy with their virtualized applications and desktops, then everything is hunky dory and Citrix admins can focus on operations and maintenance.

Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2 and Director Kickstart on CentOS 7

The easiest way to get started with Icinga is a single-node installation. If you are new to the Icinga world, here you have a kickstart for installing Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2 and Icinga Director on CentOS 7. With these steps you will have a ready Icinga environment for monitoring your infrastructure.

SAI Something Linux: Monitoring Linux with Splunk App for Infrastructure

Metrics and logs go together like cookies and milk. Metrics tell you when you have a problem, and logs/events often tell you why that problem happened. But it’s always been harder than it needed to be to get both types of data onto a single screen, especially when the sysadmins using the tools aren’t necessarily daily experts in managing those monitoring platforms.

NHS on Its Final Leg of Pager Replacement

If you’ve been following the U.K. healthcare landscape, you would know that the country has been considering replacing pagers for the longest time. This may soon materialize, partly accelerated by the challenges that doctors are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pager replacement initiative not only signifies a pivotal shift from the aging infrastructure, but it also indicates how pagers have failed to thrive in today’s unprecedented times.

Top Seven E-commerce Platforms in 2020

The introduction of e-commerce stores has made life so easy for the people. It does not make a difference if you are the consumer or a seller. For a seller, it provides the opportunity to express the worth of their brand and product(s). For a consumer, it gives them an all in one platform, where they can shop for multiple categories. With this, the most significant ease for both parties is to opt for e-commerce business is that you can do all this without taking a step out of their house.

Logging Best Practices Part 2: General Best Practices

Isn’t all logging pretty much the same? Logs appear by default, like magic, without any further intervention by teams other than simply starting a system… right? While logging may seem like simple magic, there’s a lot to consider. Logs don’t just automatically appear for all levels of your architecture, and any logs that do automatically appear probably don’t have all of the details that you need to successfully understand what a system is doing.

BIRCH for Anomaly Detection with InfluxDB

In this tutorial, we’ll use the BIRCH (balanced iterative reducing and clustering using hierarchies) algorithm from scikit-learn with the ADTK (Anomaly Detection Tool Kit) package to detect anomalous CPU behavior. We’ll use the InfluxDB 2.0 Python Client to query our data in InfluxDB 2.0 and return it as a Pandas DataFrame. This tutorial assumes that you have InfluxDB and Telegraf installed and configured on your local machine to gather CPU stats.

Launching Desktop Central Cloud: Embrace UEM the SaaS way!

Desktop Central is a holistic unified endpoint management (UEM) solution that offers a dynamic approach to securing and managing user devices, including desktops, laptops, smartphones, and tablets. Already established as a leader in the UEM field, ManageEngine adds another feather to its cap by now offering a cloud-based UEM solution. Desktop Central Cloud gives you 360-degree control over all your network endpoints.

Diagnosing out-of-memory errors on Linux

Out-of-memory (OOM) errors take place when the Linux kernel can’t provide enough memory to run all of its user-space processes, causing at least one process to exit without warning. Without a comprehensive monitoring solution, OOM errors can be tricky to diagnose. In this post, you will learn how to use Datadog to diagnose OOM errors on Linux systems.