Give your Icinga Web 2 a new look – with official ‘Color Blind Theme’ introduced in version 2.7.0! Not just for people with impaired colour vision – with a fresh and well rounded new palette, the new theme is a real looker!

The definition for APM (Application Performance Management) has evolved greatly over the past years. It has moved from specifically referring to the monitoring of an application’s experience, its code and the timing of its different building blocks, to a broader term that is used for anything related to the performance of the app. It also often includes all the related monitoring, log management and more.

The following first appeared in Dataconomy. How are dynamic IT operations affecting company culture? What do businesses need to understand about data driven AI to successfully drive their operations into the future? Risks that previously stayed inside organizational units, such as IT Ops, now leak across domains, influencing decision-making for the entire company.

More than half of workers across all industries say they’ve experienced job burnout this year, and when you zone in on tech, the number jumps to 60%. It’s so common the World Health Organization has recognized it as an occupational phenomenon. Symptoms of burnout start off small, with employees experiencing reduced efficiency and energy, lowered levels of motivation, reduced job satisfaction, decreased productivity, increased absenteeism, poor workplace morale, and increased turnover.

It’s one thing to write code that works. But what about clean, readable, concise code? That’s another thing entirely. To create an app that solves one problem? Not that hard. What about one that not only solves the problem, but it’s also easy and pleasurable to use? Now we’re talking. You could apply the same reasoning for many software properties, which would make for a long article. Instead, let’s focus on only one of those properties: performance.

By Des Nnochiri Whether it’s for network and system administration, database management, web services, or other business functions, chances are you’ll need robust servers as part of your IT infrastructure armory. Traditionally, a server running a Linux operating system has been the preferred option for enterprise use. But which Linux distribution (or distro) is the right one for your particular use case?

Harbor, developed by VMware and hosted by the CNCF, is an open source registry for container images and Helm charts. Hosting Harbor within your infrastructure gives you a number of advantages over using the default Docker registry, such as role-based access control, security scanning, and replication of resources between registry instances. Since a failed Harbor deployment can spell trouble for your containerized workloads, monitoring your self-hosted container registry is critical.

Pharmaceutical Company gets Office 365 right by advanced monitoring and clear dashboards.

Friday, August 2, marked the second beta release for Loki, a long overdue version 0.2.0. Why did it take so long? In large part this was my fault. Having done some work to create a release process for version 0.1.0, I found myself focusing on other things, so improving that process ended up on the backburner. This entire time, in the back of my mind, I was delaying a new release until I could improve that process.

User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) is a relatively new category of cybersecurity tools that utilize machine learning (ML) algorithms to detect abnormalities in the behavior of the users and entities that belong to an enterprise network. UEBA monitors and continuously learns from the behavior of various user accounts and devices in the network, and establishes a baseline behavioral profile for each using statistical and probability models.