If you’re logging onto a service or running remote command line operations over a network link via the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, the last thing you need is for your session to be cut off by a faulty connection. This scenario is all too common – but for Linux users, the Screen utility can prevent it from occurring.
Blue Monday is here! Yes, we’ve all heard about and experienced the Monday blues, but what is Blue Monday?
We had a busy 2019 with a substantial number of Amazon Web Service (AWS) integrations into Site24x7, each providing a seamless monitoring experience for our customers. The increasing number of paid AWS monitors is proof that we enhanced the monitoring expectations in 2019. In case you missed any updates about the AWS monitoring platform, here's a year-end review.
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In the first Five worthy reads of this year, we’ll explore data democratization in detail, from its definition to its pros and cons, and provide some ways to use it for data empowerment.
Ever walk into a corner market, push on the door and find it won’t open? You look down at the handle and are reminded by a sign on the door that you have to “pull” to open it? The LogicMonitor platform uses an agentless collector to pull metrics from thousands of devices and resources into a unified monitoring view (no agents required). We currently offer more than 2,000 LogicModules out-of-the-box that gather metrics from all kinds of systems using many different protocols.
We recently received a notification from a concerned user, because he had found a “vulnerability” in Pandora FMS. Besides, not just any vulnerability but one that seemed to give root access to the system. Next, this user called k4m1ll0 wrote a post in Medium warning the community about this vulnerability. If you want to read the original post, click here.
IT spending remains solid, with a nod to Azure, AI, edge. January is the month to plan ahead which often means taking a closer look at budgets. Spiceworks surveyed more than 1,000 technology buyers in companies across North America and Europe, finding that 44% of businesses plan to increase tech spend in 2020, up from 38% in 2019; an equal number (44%) said that spending would stay the same.
AWS offers a variety of services to solve specific needs. There are some core services, like EC2 and VPC, that let you create an infrastructure for your applications that scales easily. But if you’re new to AWS and also new to infrastructure, you might need to invest some time reading before you deploy your application to AWS. I remember my first time using AWS; the sysadmin explained to me what systems we were using in AWS to run the company’s main application.
An extended period of website downtime is the stuff of nightmares for companies large and small. For a company such as Amazon, even one single minute of downtime can cost as much as $220,318.80 according to the latest calculations. For smaller companies, that figure will be minuscule in comparison, but it’s a number which can quickly snowball the longer your website is offline.
