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How to Monitor MongoDB Logs

MongoDB is a leading NoSQL database that has proven itself through time as a stable and easy-to-use system of great flexibility. There are numerous tutorials and real-world success stories that show how MongoDB has helped with supporting the database needs of certain organizations and projects. It’s fair to say that using MongoDB proves to be a solid choice for integrating with web-based applications and microservices serving as a database system or even as a monitoring aggregator itself.

How COVID-19 Made IT Experience a Board Level Concern

For the digital workplace team at ABN AMRO, it wasn’t just the COVID-19 crisis itself that was unexpected. If you’d have told us in January 2020 that – within a few months – our tooling and capability would be the subject of direct and regular attention by the board at our company, we would have had trouble believing that, too. ABN AMRO has long had quite a special focus on employee experience in general.

New installation options coming for Ubuntu on WSL

The experience of installing Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) just keeps getting better. Beginning in Windows 10 Insiders Preview build 20246, released today by Microsoft, users can enable a complete WSL experience. This will enable WSL 2, download and install the latest WSL 2 Linux kernel, and then download and install the most recent Ubuntu LTS on WSL.

Announcing the LogDNA Terraform Provider Beta

We’re excited to announce the public beta of the LogDNA Terraform Provider, allowing organizations to manage Views and Alerts programmatically via Terraform. Today, more teams than ever are adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to reduce human error and create efficiently scaled workflows for their infrastructure. Additionally, teams are looking to bring the same benefits of scalability and predictability into their SaaS-based observability stack.

What Are the Pros and Cons of File Sharing?

File sharing is a method used by some organizations where multiple employees have access to the same files. How the files are accessed does vary depending on the user environment. The files could be shared between two computers, where the files are stored on one computer and another user accesses them from their workstation. The files might be stored on a network file server instead of on a local workstation.

Let's start a revolution: Analytics in Action

At ServiceNow, we define analytics as using data to make better, faster decisions to run the company. We use analytics to not only spotlight every corner of our operations, but we also to spark growth, by giving our employees data-driven decision-making capabilities. That means they can take action every single day by using data and digital workflows. In order to drive data-driven decisions, we created a user-centric analytics program based on five major elements, which are listed below. 1.

Yury Niño Roa Shares her Insights on Chaos Engineering and SRE

Blameless recently had the pleasure of interviewing Yury Niño Roa, Site Reliability Engineer, Solutions Architect and Chaos Engineering Advocate at ADL Digital Labs. She’s worked in roles ranging from solutions architect, to software engineering professor, to DevOps engineer, to SRE. Additionally, Yury is an avid blogger and conference speaker who regularly presents at events such as Chaos Conf, DevOpsDays Bogotá, and more.

How to download an Azure VM

If you require a way to download your Azure Virtual Machine to either your on premise VMware or Hyper-V environment, perhaps because the cost of running that Azure VM is too high, or even for some compliance reason this blog will show you how to quickly download your Azure VM easily with Carbon. No need to download your Azure VM via powershell, or even downloading the VHD from the Azure portal. Carbon will download and convert your Azure VM to your hypervisor of choice with just a few clicks.