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How to Monitor Amazon Redshift

In the first post of our three-part Amazon Redshift series, we covered what Redshift is and how it works. For the second installment, we’ll discuss how Amazon Redshift queries are analyzed and monitored. Before we go deep into gauging query performance on Redshift, let’s take a quick refresher on what Amazon Redshift is and what it does.

Log4net for .NET Logging: The Only Tutorial and 14 Tips You Need to Know

If you’ve been writing code for any reasonable amount of time, then it’s virtually impossible that you haven’t handled logging in any way, since it’s one of the most essential parts of modern, “real life” app development. If you’re a .NET developer, then you’ve probably used some of the many famous logging frameworks available for use at this platform. Today’s post will cover one of these frameworks: log4net.

What Your IT Chatbot Can Look Like Running on Full Power

Gartner once wrote that by 2020, “the average person will have more conversations with bots (chatbots) than with their spouse”. That prediction might seem a bit farfetched and probably more of a sign for relationship disaster, but there is some truth there: for many people chatbots are already an integral part of modern-day life. From turning on the lights, to picking our favorite songs and ordering food—we use chatbots for almost everything and expect them to work all the time.

SolarWinds Launches Identity Monitor to Empower IT and Security Pros with Automated Account Takeover Prevention

Cork, Ireland - October 8, 2019 - SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced the launch of SolarWinds® Identity Monitor. The easy-to-use solution is designed to help IT and security professionals strengthen their security posture and combat instances of account fraud, loss of revenue, brand damage, and spam by automating account takeover (ATO) prevention. This launch further underscores SolarWinds commitment to making security solutions accessible for every organisation that needs them, helping to fill a gap not met by many enterprise software vendors.

Centralize your logs with Datadog and Fluent Bit

Fluent Bit is a lightweight, multi-platform tool that can collect, parse, and forward log data from several different sources. Because Fluent Bit has a small memory footprint (~450 KB), it is an ideal solution for collecting logs in environments with limited resources, such as containerized services and embedded Linux systems (e.g., IoT devices).

How to Monitor Kubernetes With Blue Matador

Kubernetes is the defacto solution for production-ready container orchestration in 2019. Organizations of any size are able to take advantage of Kubernetes’ quick setup, feature-rich API, and growing community to deliver value quickly and at scale. Since Kubernetes is central to many infrastructures, properly monitoring your Kubernetes clusters is critical. In this post, we will go over how Blue Matador monitors each piece of your Kubernetes cluster automatically.

Streamline Workflows with Dashboard Tokens

LogicMonitor dashboards are powerful tools for viewing, troubleshooting, and drawing insights from your monitoring data in a variety of ways. Using LogicMonitor, you’ll likely interface with dashboards more than most other functionalities, so it’s important to optimize your workflow as much as possible. Dashboard tokens allow you to streamline dashboard creation and editing as well as limiting human error, especially at scale.

Announcing ServiceDesk Plus 11.0 with rapid-start enterprise service desk capabilities

In late 2017, we announced enterprise service management (ESM) capabilities for our cloud model of ServiceDesk Plus. It helps organizations worldwide create unique service desk instances for each of their business functions like HR, travel, and facilities, and manage service delivery across their enterprise from a central platform. Now, we’ve expanded our ESM footprint to our on-premises model of ServiceDesk Plus.

Windows Containers and Rancher 2.3

Container technology is transforming the face of business and application development. 70% of on-premises workloads today are running on the Windows Server operating system and enterprise customers are looking to modernize these workloads and make use of containers. We have introduced support for Windows Containers in Windows Server 2016 and graduated support for Windows Server worker nodes in Kubernetes 1.14 clusters. With Windows Server 2019 we have expanded support in Kubernetes 1.16.