Now that companies depend on the cloud for access to key services and business operations, downtime has a larger impact on productivity. Uptime is just as critical to small businesses as it is to major ecommerce retailers on Black Friday. Even the public relies on various services like Alexa and email to be available throughout the day. Looking at major outages over the past year provides insight into how companies prepare to handle these events.

I’ve lived in the virtualization and cloud world for a really long time. During that time, I’ve also seen the impacts on users when you don’t have a good performance monitoring and troubleshooting system in place. That said, what if you have managed services? Do you understand what challenges managed services providers (MSPs) face when working without a monitoring and troubleshooting tool? How are you effectively resolving common VDI performance as well as connectivity issues?

This is the third part of a series on the CloudReady dashboards and visualizations. The first part covered basics like Overviews, Refresh, and Layout settings. The second part covered more advanced dashboard usage like layout pinning, capture and embedding. In this third part we’ll cover key widgets, their usage and settings.

In a previous post we introduced anomaly detection as a group of techniques used to identify unusual behavior that does not comply with expected data pattern. In this article we will find out how we can apply anomaly detection within monitoring.

You've got bugs, but they're hiding inside your minified JavaScript. Source maps are the key to finding them. Unfortunately, they can be difficult to set up. Luckily, you're a flippin' Honeybadger. We've got your back with the documentation and tools you need swat those bugs.

Be the first to get a complete picture of the health and performance of your business critical VMware environment using the new NiCE VMware Management Pack. The NiCE VMware Management Pack delivers first-rate monitoring for business critical, highly dynamical virtualized environments. Leverage your existing investment and reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies now.

Apache Tomcat is a server for Java-based web applications, developed by the Apache Software Foundation. The Tomcat project’s source was originally created by Sun Microsystems and donated to the foundation in 1999. Tomcat is one of the more popular server implementations for Java web applications and runs in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed some key Tomcat and JVM metrics that are exposed through Java Management Extensions (JMX). Now that you are familiar with metrics necessary for monitoring Tomcat, we can look at how to collect and query that data.

In Part 2 of this series, we showed you how to collect key Tomcat performance metrics and logs with open source tools. These tools are useful for quickly viewing health and performance data from Tomcat, but don’t provide much context for how those metrics and logs relate to other applications or systems within your infrastructure.

Icinga Director v1.6.0 has been released with Multi-Instance Support, Configuration Baskets and improved Health Checks. We’re excited to announce new features that will help you to work more efficiently.