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Resolving the AddTrust External CA Root certificate expiration

Some of our users have received reports about their AddTrust External CA Root or USERTrust RSA Certification Authority certificate. The problem occurs because the remote server sends a root certificate in the chain that will expire in less than 14 days. Here are the steps to verify this and a few tips on how to resolve it.

3 ITSM Strategies to Help your Remote Workforce Thrive

Remote workforces are becoming the new normal. What could be achieved earlier with a simple visit to your colleague’s desk will now require you to communicate flawlessly across miles. ITSM tools that were earlier used only when systems had issues are now being used to make delivery of different business services easier. Quite naturally, not all organizations are prepared for this ‘new normal’.

Analyze Stuck And Hogging Threads

What is Stuck Thread? A Stuck Thread is a thread which is processing a request for more than maximum time that you configured in admin console. By Default, the WebLogic server comes with 600 secs. If some thread doesn’t return in 600 secs, It gets a flag ‘stuck thread’. How to deal with Stuck Thread? Take thread dumps instantly. Open thread dumps in visualVM. Analyze dashboard from WebLogic console (managed server > monitoring > threads).

How important is network compliance for your remote work environment?

With a majority of the workforce now adopting a work-from-home routine, maintaining the normal functioning of your network and ensuring compliance with industry standards is not an easy job. When employees are working remotely, it is especially crucial to ensure network compliance with industry standards and internal policies to secure your network from cybersecurity breaches.

GrafanaCONline Day 2 recap: The future of worldPing and an industrial IoT use case of Grafana

GrafanaCONline is live! We hope you’re able to catch the great online sessions we have planned over the next couple of weeks. After Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, and VP of Product (and Cortex co-creator) Tom Wilkie kicked off the conference with a keynote discussing the future of Grafana and the upcoming Grafana 7.0 release, GrafanaCONline continued with a focus on Grafana’s global reach.

How to Trigger Alerts From Application Events

EventSources, the sister LogicModule to DataSources, are a useful framework for triggering event-based, contextual alerts from your applications and infrastructure. While DataSources poll your applications and infrastructure for time-series datapoints, EventSources poll (or listen) for interesting events from your log files, SNMP traps, syslogs, Windows Event Logs, and much more.

10 Essential DevOps Slack Apps

A major goal of DevOps is task and process automation. While total automation is possible to a large extent, DevOps engineers can’t just run a process and then leave it. They need to quickly react in the event of downtime and incidents. Usually, it’s important to react as fast as possible because downtime for even a few minutes can cost from $2,300 to $9,000 according to the Ponemon Institute in 2016 and a 14-hour outrage cost Facebook an estimated $90 million in March 2019.

Azure Health Monitoring

Microsoft Azure has been growing rapidly from the past couple of years and many new advancements have been done to increase the productivity of the users. Microsoft has also been constantly working on different monitoring capabilities to keep the users well informed about the status and availability of their resources. One such resource is the Azure service health which notifies the user about the availability and health status of each resource in different Azure regions.