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Creating a host through the Icinga 2 API

Learning about the Icinga API can be an eye opening moment for some, and lead to a path of automation and configuration management. But where to start? Well, you can always check out the Icinga API documentation for that. But today, I have an idea for you – I’ll show you how to create a host through the Icinga 2 API.

Challenges of Going Serverless (2020 edition)

While we know the many benefits of going serverless - reduced costs via pay-per-use pricing models, less operational burden/overhead, instant scalability, increased automation - the challenges are often not addressed as comprehensively. The understandable concerns over migrating can stop any architectural decisions and actions being made for fear of getting it wrong and not having the right resources.

Improve Website Performance and Availability with Synthetic Monitoring

Enterprise monitoring tools have traditionally paid attention to the performance of monolithic applications hosted on physical and virtual infrastructure resources. The adoption of cloud native and microservices architectures has brought greater focus to end-user experiences delivered by web applications across different global locations. The bar for a great digital customer experience has never been higher.

Community Highlight: How Supralog Built an Online Incremental Machine Learning Pipeline with InfluxDB OSS for Capacity Planning

This article was written by Gregory Scafarto, Data Scientist intern at Supralog, in collaboration with InfluxData’s DevRel Anais Dotis-Georgiou. At InfluxData, we pride ourselves on our awesome InfluxDB Community. We’re grateful for all of your contributions and feedback. Whether it’s Telegraf plugins, community templates, awesome InfluxDB projects, or Third Party Flux Packages, your contributions continue to both impress and humble us.

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Achieving a 12% performance lift migrating Raygun's API to .NET Core 3.1

Here at Raygun, improving performance is baked into our culture. We don't just think about our application performance, but more broadly, we look at our own infrastructure and ask if there's anything we can do to make it more performant for our business and for our customers. Two years ago, we switched our API from Node.js to .NET Core and achieved a 2000% increase in throughput. To continue that story, we recently upgraded .NET Core 2.1 to 3.1 and saw a 12% increase in performance. We enjoy presenting our performance findings, so in this post, we'd like to give some context into why we upgraded and the conditions that helped us achieve the 12% performance lift.
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How To Monitor Zoom Audio Video Conference Performance

With governments and businesses requiring workers to stay and work from home during this unprecedented global pandemic, enterprises are now more dependent than ever before on real time collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Cisco WebEx. IT staff within these organizations are under pressure to provide their Sr. Management a level of assurance that these tools are working well in this scenario. But with workers running devices IT doesn't own over networks they don't control means IT needs innovate quickly and find tools that can help them and help them fast.

Docker monitoring made easy

Docker is a platform that enables developers to run software in packaged environments called containers. These containers are operating system (OS)-level virtualized elements that share a common Linux server yet have their software, libraries, and configuration files bundled within them. These containers can communicate with each other and exchange information, making it easier to develop and host multiple applications through the CI/CD DevOps methodology.

Maintaining stellar website performance

When was the last time you checked your website’s performance? If your answer is longer than five minutes ago, you’re dropping the ball on one of the most important things you can do to improve bounce rates, Google rankings, conversions, and revenue. In this article, we go over the steps you need to take when maintaining a fast user experience.

Serverless computing: The what, why, and why not

Applications have traditionally been run on servers, which have to be closely monitored to ensure there are no hindrances in production. In the case of serverless computing, you no longer have to manage servers, as the onus falls on cloud service providers. Read along to discover more about serverless computing, including some of its advantages and disadvantages. So what actually is serverless computing?