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Crisis management during a downtime - How to communicate with customers

A website downtime for any online business can be a time of great concern, anxiety, stress, and panic. So many questions will go through the mind of the website owner, such as; A website downtime is indeed a nervy period for any online business, but most especially for small and medium scale businesses still trying to find their feet in a highly competitive and unforgiving business environment.

Tech Talk: Galileo Cloud Compass

A video chat with the developers who bring right-sized cloud costing information in real-time. It all started with a casual conversation about the cloud and infrastructure monitoring among the team at Galileo and our parent company, The ATS Group. From there, it quickly evolved into a discussion on how we can alleviate a source of frustration for many of our customers.

How to Build Grafana Dashboards with InfluxDB, Flux and InfluxQL

We’re excited about today’s release of Grafana 7.1, which extends Grafana’s built-in InfluxDB datasource to run queries in both the Flux language and InfluxQL. This means it’s super easy to connect Grafana to InfluxDB — whether you use InfluxDB 1.8 or 2.0, Flux or InfluxQL. Because this InfluxDB datasource is built into Grafana 7.1, there is no separate plugin to download and install.

Derek Saves the Day with Network Monitoring

Network Monitoring solutions, much like the diagnostic and surgical tools of a medical professional, make it easier for the IT team to discover and locate devices installed within the network or operated via the cloud. These systems make it easier for the IT operations team to understand the ongoing issues in real-time, as and when they occur. Whether it is uptime, disk space, or any other performance issues.

A developer's guide to optimizing PHP performance

With its open-source nature, PHP has evolved into one of the most popular languages among web developers. According to w3techs, 78 percent of websites across the globe use PHP as their server-side language. Even amongst the top 1,000 ranked sites, PHP is dominant, being used by more than 50 percent of them.

Gardener, SAP's Kubernetes-as-a-service open source project, is moving its logging stack to Loki

Kristian Zhelyazkov is a developer at SAP working on Gardener, the SAP-driven Kubernetes-as-a-service open source project. In this guest blog post, he explains why the project is moving its logging stack to Loki.

Goliath Technologies Joins IGEL Ready Program as a Technology Partner

Goliath joins a growing number of forward-thinking businesses that are integrating and validating their products through the new IGEL Ready program Philadelphia, PA and San Francisco, CA – July 15, 2020 – Goliath Technologies, a leader in end-user experience monitoring and troubleshooting software, and IGEL, the edge OS leader for cloud workspaces, today announced that Goliath has joined the new IGEL Ready program as a technology partner.

Prometheus vs Nagios

Production environment stability and high availability are the holy grail of every SaaS company. R&D organizations put a lot of effort into achieving these goals by implementing different monitoring and alert methodologies and by utilizing a variety of systems and tools. Mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) and mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) are two crucial KPIs that help R&D management personnel determine the efficiency and proficiency of their teams’ responses to production incidents.

Managing Docker Logs with ELK and Fluentd

This article provides an overview of managing and analyzing Docker logs and explores some of the complexities that may arise when looking through the log data. We will go through the default logging approach, as well as look at some more advanced configurations that will make diagnosing issues in your Docker-hosted applications much easier going forward.