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The Cost of NOT Monitoring Every Application

If you’ve been building or supporting applications for a while, you’ve probably experienced the uncomfortable postmortem meetings that inevitably follow significant service interruptions. You know how it works. There was a critical outage in one of your apps and it took the team an entire week to track down and fix the issue. Customers and revenue were lost. Now you’re sitting in a large conference room with executives to discuss what happened and why.

Jenkins and JFrog Pipelines: CI/CD Working Together to Release Your Software

As a software producer, you need to keep releases moving, even as you need to move your technology ahead. Transitioning your Jenkins continuous integration (CI) pipelines to a newer, optimized system can’t be a roadblock, and your enterprise can’t afford the work stoppage a rip-and-replace rework would require. We understood that deeply when we built our CI/CD solution, JFrog Pipelines.

How we use the powerful new Icinga PHP Library to build the Icinga DB Web UI

When building Icinga DB Web we completely rewrote the basic Icinga Web UI. The “monitoring module”, which it was called before. While this existed for some time and the and the underlying concepts were already used in the Icinga Director, we took the chance and brought our Web UI to a new level. In Icinga IPL every UI element is represented by a PHP class.

4 Important Benefits of Remote Checks with Software Agents

One of the biggest impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the number of employees asked or required to work from home. Whilst the capability to work completely remotely has been available for many years now, some companies have been reticent to take advantage of this due to the managerial and technical difficulties involved in managing remote teams and networks.

Elastic Stack 7.7.0 released

We are pleased to announce the general availability of version 7.7 of the Elastic Stack. Like most Elastic Stack releases, 7.7 packs quite a punch. But more than the new features, we’re most proud of the team that delivered it. A feature-packed release like this is special during normal times. But it’s extra special today given the uncertain times we are in right now.

Rackspace Boosts IT Operations Management with AIOps

As part of its pledged “fanatical” commitment to the success of its 125,000 customers across the globe, Rackspace optimizes its IT operations to the fullest. That way, this leading MSP ensures the highest quality and reliability of its vast portfolio of IT services across public and private clouds, and dedicated servers. “We support everything from gaming to e-commerce, telecommunications, medical, aviation — you name it.

Virtana Announces New Funding from its Major Investors

San Jose, CA, May 13, 2020 – Virtana, the leader in enterprise hybrid cloud migration and optimization, announced today a new $15 million investment from HighBar Partners and Benhamou Global Ventures. The funding will allow Virtana to help more customers optimize performance, cost, and capacity in on-premises and cloud data centers.

How to enrich logs and metrics using an Elasticsearch ingest node

When ingesting data into Elasticsearch, it is often beneficial to enrich documents with additional information that can later be used for searching or viewing the data. Enrichment is the process of merging data from an authoritative source into documents as they are ingested into Elasticsearch. For example, enrichment can be done with the GeoIP Processor which processes documents that contain IP addresses and adds information about the geographical location associated with each IP address.