Icinga Camp Berlin is happening right now, and as promised in my talk about “Dev and ops stories: Integrations++” we are proud to bring you Dashing for Icinga 2 in its v2.0.0 release ?

It has been around 2 years since we changed our looks, so it is right about time to try something fresh! In addition to design changes, we also updated our free tools - Website Availability Test and Website Speed Test. Even though Availability Tool functionality is the same, Website Speed Test tool has been redesigned completely - now we test website speed from 11 different checkpoints around the globe, to give you a good overview of how your website performs far away from your datacenters.

Philadelphia, PA – March 6, 2018 – Today Goliath Technologies announced the release of their new Goliath for VMware Horizon product suite. This innovative product provides a different approach to VMware Horizon monitoring that brings together VMware Horizon session data, end user experience, metrics from the underlying infrastructure, and proactive application availability monitoring into a single product and console.

Automation and efficiency go hand in hand and is something that has been mentioned in IT since the 70’s. Nevertheless, 40 years on, and the majority of companies still have to internalize and embrace automated processes.

We already wrote about monitoring posgresql queries, at the time we thought that we completely understood how PostgreSQL works with various server resources. Working regularly with the statistics of PostgreSQL queries, we noticed some anomalies and decided to dig a bit deeper for better understanding. Through this process, we found that while the behavior of postreSQL is kind of strange at first glance (or at least very peculiar), the clarity of its source code is quite admirable.

Icinga is coming to Berlin for the 3rd time next week, and we are super excited to share the latest developments with you. And of course to meet again with our awesome community and have a couple of G&Ts :) If you can’t make it, our first Icinga Camp New York happens on March 16th the week after!

Uptime Robot offers multiple ways to get notified of downtime. And, here comes another exciting one. Thanks to its bot framework and API support, it is now possible to get down/up/SSL notifications via Telegram messaging app.

We’ve finally made the finishing touches on the elasticsearch monitoring and officially released it. Only after three complete reworks did we manage to achieve really nice results and detect all the issues in any ES cluster setup.

Today we are announcing Kamon 1.1.0 with a couple bugfixes and a small but important improvement on context propagation, plus several minor updates on other modules that sort of went under the table for Akka, Akka Remote, Akka HTTP, Play Framework, Http4s and our sbt-aspectj-runner plugin.

Want to periodically monitor DNS records for your website? Here are step by step instructions how to accomplish this with AppBeat.