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12 Tools to Provide a Killing Content for Your eCommerce Blog

With so much competition in the world of e-commerce, managing to reach the level of exposure targeted and to maintain your site visitors engaged isn’t easy. You need to use effective strategies that allow you to boost the appeal of your platform, maintain rankings up and decrease bounce rates.

The results of our 2019 "Future of Monitoring and AIOps" survey are in

IT operations is at a crossroads. The increasing complexity of IT infrastructure and software is challenging IT teams and the business. So this year we decided to focus our survey on what IT Ops execs, managers and practitioners think about the current state of their operations, the future of their systems and the role automation and AIOps might play in their transformation.

The 5 Whys: Why Use Monitoring at All?

Customers today are faced with a wide variety of industry terminology: APM, IOTA, BPM, OI, BAM and AIOps, just to name a few. Using different terminology like this might help large vendors expand their market size with different positioning offerings, but it certainly doesn’t help their customers understand what they’re getting. Companies spend tens of millions of dollars to solve their problems with the wrong solutions and struggle to get value from it.

How Adopting OnPage can Transform Your Organization

OnPage provides a reliable incident alerting solution, built for today’s healthcare providers and IT professionals, ensuring that important notifications are sent to the right individuals at the right time, every time. Adopting OnPage as a pager service or IT alerting solution equates to HIPAA-compliant exchanges, without human errors or complications.

How to Collect Kubernetes Data

Now that we understand what machine data is available to us, how do we get to this data? The good news is that Kubernetes makes most of this data readily available, you just need the right tool to gather and view it. The solution we will discuss here heavily utilizes open source tools for collection and data enrichment because of their deep integrations and overwhelming community support.

SDLC Models in 2019: How They've Aged and What's Current

The software development life cycle (SDLC) started to become a formalized process for software development in the 1960s. That’s pretty much when software systems started to exist. With its loosely defined development phases, the SDLC has become a software development term that gets a lot of people talking. The SDLC, however, is more of an acronym packed with meaning than a specification or framework for software development.

The 10 Most Common HTTP Status Codes

As a typical Internet user, nothing is more frustrating than waiting for a web page to display, only to receive a “Page Not Found” 404 error status code. Sure, we try reloading the page, and sometimes that gets the gremlins to start working, but most times, the issue is out of our hands. For all of us typical users, we either go onto the next thing or find a different site. There’s a lot going on in the background that most of us are completely unaware of.

New CFEngine Hub packages released

Due to a number of vulnerabilities found in the version of Apache we bundle with CFEngine Hub, we have upgraded the CFEngine Hub packages to use an updated version of Apache. We upgrade from Apache 2.4.39 to Apache 2.4.41. We are now releasing a new version, CFEngine Hub 3.12.2-5. Only new Hub packages are being released, as no other packages are affected by these vulnerabilities.

Deduping HA Prometheus Samples in Cortex

One of the best practices for running Prometheus in production environments is to use a highly available setup, in which multiple Prometheus instances all scrape the same targets. This means multiple instances have all your metrics data, so if one fails, the data is still available on another. Ideally, each instance would run on a separate machine.

A Tale of Two Realities: Do Your Execs Know What It Takes to Manage ELK?

We’ve all experienced it – executives with unrealistic expectations who vastly underestimate the amount of time our work can take. Most of us assume that to be the exception and not the norm. But when it comes to monitoring and troubleshooting, that seems to be the all too commonplace.