Monitoring Jenkins is a serious challenge. Logging is often overlooked, but it provides a wealth of information about the health of your Jenkins instance. The following are some approaches to generating informative logging to these issues, that can help to monitor and provide suitable explanations of where the problems lie; even identifying what the possible solutions are.
When it comes to dashboarding, Kibana is king. Since its release Kibana has changed the way businesses visualize data. Kibana is a fairly intuitive platform and offers some seriously impressive ways to visualize data. In this kibana dashboard tutorial, we are going to help you unlock the full potential of the platform and help you become a Kibana guru. When it comes to visualizing data Kibana is well suited for monitoring logs, application monitoring, and operational intelligence.
You may have noticed how on sites like Google you get suggestions as you type. With every letter you add, the suggestions are improved, predicting the query that you want to search for. Achieving Elasticsearch autocomplete functionality is facilitated by the search_as_you_type field datatype. This datatype makes what was previously a very challenging effort remarkably easy.
Your website is the face of your business - it should urge the customer to buy your product. Knowing this, you spend weeks on a great web design and user experience. But that’s only the visible part, what about your site’s infrastructure? In order to make your website as optimized as possible, you need metrics about everything such as customer behavior, load speeds, proxy request counts, load balancers and more.
As one of the most effective ways to dramatically reduce cloud compute infrastructure costs, EC2 spot instances have always played a role in managing cloud costs, with the eye-popping potential of up to 90% cost reduction. However, the fact that AWS can interrupt them at any given time, has not done much for their popularity. Yet in today’s volatile global economy, companies need to explore how to use this powerful means of cost reduction all while ensuring high availability.
The perception that Netdata is only capable of short-term metrics storage is a myth. It’s a pervasive myth we still see in blog posts and through community engagement, despite it being false for more than a year. However, like all myths, this one on metrics storage began with a kernel of truth. When Netdata first flourished as an open-source project in 2017 and 2018, the default metrics database was RAM-only.
The dawn of virtualization and virtual machines or VMs have brought about massive changes in the industrial and commercial sector. Every organization, be it large or small, are now implementing virtual machines on different scales, and it’s saving them a lot of money and resources. But while virtualization is an incredibly powerful computing technology, it is by no means simple to handle.
IT change management is one of the most important aspects of your service management and IT operations—so much that it can make or break an IT enterprise. In this blog, let’s go through what changes are, in the context of IT operations, and how to set up an IT change management function and go about managing changes in your IT ecosystem. Read on.
We’re in the early autumn season here in the northern hemisphere, with the weather getting cooler and the nights longer. That growing chill in the evenings encourages staying inside and reading by a fire for enjoyment and enlightenment.
