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New Free App for Active Directory

In organizations which uses a Windows server environment, the vast majority of authentication and access control processes are managed within Active Directory. As a central and critical component for managing organizational IT resources, Active Directory logs contain valuable information which must be closely monitored and analyzed.

An in-depth look at 100% Zero Downtime deployments with Terraform

At Checkly, we run our browser checks on AWS EC2 instances managed by Terraform. When shipping a new version, we don’t want to interrupt our service, so we need zero downtime deployments. Hashicorp has their own write up on zero downtime upgrades, but it only introduces the Terraform configuration without any context, workflow or other details that are needed to actually make this work in real life™.

Hello from Atlassian!

It's official and you're the first to know – Opsgenie is the newest member of the Atlassian family! Our commitment to you has always been that we'll provide the world's best alerting and incident management solution, coupled with outstanding customer service. That doesn't change. But we're excited to bring you even more – a fresh new logo, new plans, and much lower pricing.

A Java troubleshooting guide: network, memory leaks and threads

While the term ‘Java troubleshooting’ can apply to many, many scenarios, this post focuses on three particular long-standing Java production scenarios: a denial of service to a Java service endpoint, a memory leak, and troubleshooting a thread deadlock or race condition. Follow along as we use Java inside Docker containers to facilitate quick testing and show you how to use open source sysdig to quickly diagnose each troubleshooting scenario.

Pro Tips: Using Prometheus and Grafana for Monitoring Power Usage

Sure, thousands of technologists around the world are using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their business systems. But how about putting these technologies to work at home? Erwin de Keijzer, a Linux engineer at the Dutch consulting firm Snow, gave a talk at GrafanaCon EU about how he used Prometheus and Grafana to monitor the power usage… of his washing machine. “This is a talk that’s a bit different scale than we’ve heard so far” at GrafanaCon, he quipped.

Monitoring and Logging Requirements for Compliance

Addressing compliance requirements for monitoring and logging can be a challenge for any organization no matter how experienced or skilled the people responsible are. Compliance requirements are often not well understood by technical teams and there is not much instruction on how to comply with a compliance program. In this article, we’ll discuss what some of these new compliance programs mean, why they are important, and how you can comply with your logging and monitoring system.