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What is CMDB and How it's Related to IT Asset Management

As an organization, we make sure to learn from our customers and transfer that learning in building a better product. This is a continuous cycle that keeps us ahead of our competitors. In our experience, we have observed that the Configuration Management Database is either a topic of fantasy or a nightmare for a lot of organizations. So, which one is your organization having? Fantasy or nightmare.

You're the Top Gopher! GoCenter Badges Honor Amazing Go Modules

In the holiday spirit, we’re bringing a little cheer to the Golang community by celebrating the achievements of some noteworthy Go module authors. We’re excited to launch a new program within JFrog GoCenter that honors select “Top Gophers.” Using key metrics of success such as number of downloads and imports, quality metrics, and usage in GoCenter, we aim to highlight projects that we think are really helping improve software development for the Go developer community.

Real-World Tips and Tricks to Tune Apache Tomcat for High Performance

Apache Tomcat, developed by the Apache Software Foundation, is an open source Java servlet container that also functions as a web server. While over 10,000 websites rely on Tomcat as a web server, a Plumbr of Java application servers showed that over 60% of websites that use Java technology relied on Apache Tomcat to host the business logic. Production environments must be high performing.

Making on-call superheros

Building a world-class service is as much about maintaining software as it is about developing it. On-call engineers are typically responsible for ensuring the reliability and availability of your service i,e your reputation, and source of revenue. Robust on-call schedules ensure that the right people are ready-to-go during times of crisis. Organizations continue to depend on on-call schedules and incident response processes that are a source of stress/anxiety or panic to employees.

AI: Let's Get Real

The hype has gone off the charts for AI and machine learning tools' potential in IT organizations. It’s time to temper expectations and move towards a sensible adoption path. Artificial intelligence is not fairy dust sprinkled on a data center, despite the enthusiastic proclamations of many IT operations vendors today. A couple of years ago, AI was the bride atop the wedding cake. It was perfect, with promises to render obsolete errors and out-of-control performance issues.

Enhancing AWS security with Graylog centralized logging

AWS is a popular destination for IaaS that offers quickly saleable resources to meet even the largest customer demands. Cloud scalability like this can generate a large amount of logs you need to monitor to keep up with your cybersecurity goals. Getting those logs into a SIEM or centralized log management platform such as Graylog is key to have proactive monitoring and alerting.

Gartner Publishes New Report: Six Smart Steps to ITSM Tools

Information technology service management (ITSM) tools streamline and regulate how IT services are delivered. ITSM tools include help-desk (e.g., ConnectWise Manage and ServiceNow) and monitoring software, providing smart ticketing capabilities and live system statuses, respectively. Unfortunately, Gartner Research reports that organizations tend to overbuy ITSM tools beyond their needs. For instance, organizations purchase unnecessary capabilities and features when adopting new ITSM technology.

AWS Batch: A Detailed Guide to Kicking Off Your First Job

There are always the kind of tasks that need to run periodically, either to analyze and process information (like fraud detection), or to simply do things like send email reports. But for that, we need to have a tool to schedule computer resources and, of course, the script. But what if we only need to worry about coding the script? Introducing AWS Batch. It’s a free service that takes care of batch jobs you might need to run periodically or on-demand. And you only pay for the resources you use.

What Is Log Collection? The Value of Unifying Your Logging

If you work in IT, especially on the decision-making side, then you should be aware of how vital logging is. When things go wrong with software in production, a solid logging approach often is the difference between hours of fruitless troubleshooting and an easy fix. Today, we’re here to talk about logging by covering a specific angle. Namely, we’ll answer the question, “What is log collection?”

Under The Hood: Inside a Status Page Aggregator

StatusGator is a status page aggregator. We monitor the world’s status pages and provide a unified dashboard which tracks the status pages each user cares about. But how do we collect and normalize all this data? To get started with StatusGator, you choose the services you already use from our list. For each service, you select the specific components from their status pages that you depended on.