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Level Up Your Nutanix Hyperconverged Monitoring

The demand for hyperconverged systems is being fueled by enterprise IT’s need to be more flexible and to emulate the services and speed of public cloud providers. Hyperconvergence eliminates separate storage vendors, storage device troubleshooting and storage networks while providing more granular scalability. The adoption of hyperconverged infrastructure with distributed computing architecture enables large IT teams to add resources on demand with increased flexibility.

Deleting ServiceNow Records via List Filter

When doing testing and development I frequently want to clean up all of the records between releases to give myself a fresh start. Using the list view is helpful, but can be slow if you have more than 100 or so records to delete. The below script is run via the Scripts – Background view to take the results of your list view and delete the records, logging if they are successfully deleted or not with each one.

Custom HTTP Request Headers

One of the latest under-the-hood upgrades to our User Journey and Page Performance monitoring system has been to introduce the ability to set custom HTTP request headers. This was actually a requirement from one of our clients who was beginning to have trouble maintaining the whitelist of IP addresses that our requests might come from in their Web Application Firewall (WAF).

Popular Slack Alternatives

Slack has been one of the driving forces changing workplace messaging over the last several years, bringing engagement and productivity to professionals across all industries. In January 2019, the company announced it had more than 10 million daily active users, which is quite an accomplishment. But, for a number of reasons, not every organization can use Slack. For starters, Slack is expensive for many organizations that outgrow the company’s free offering.

Setting up a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins, Nexus, and Kubernetes

This is the first in a series of tutorials on setting up a secure production-grade CI/CD pipeline. We’ll use Kublr to manage our Kubernetes cluster, Jenkins, Nexus, and your cloud provider of choice or a co-located provider with bare metal servers. A common goal of SRE and DevOps practitioners is to enable development and QA teams. We developed a list of tools and best practices that will allow them to iterate quickly, get instant feedback on their builds and failures, and experiment.

Let's talk about the BGP protocol and its monitoring

The BGP protocol has become a fundamental part of the operation and performance of the Internet. Therefore, it is obvious that we should undertake the BGP monitoring process when monitoring applications or those services that are offered being Internet the basis of its communication.

Virtual Instruments Reinvents Hybrid Infrastructure Management with Latest Generation of AIOps-Enabled VirtualWisdom Platform

Virtana, the leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads, today introduced the latest version of VirtualWisdom, the industry’s most comprehensive hybrid IT infrastructure management and AIOps platform.

A Guide to Protecting Privacy in the 21st Century

Let’s be honest: we are facing big problems surrounding privacy online today. It has come to light over the past couple of years how the adtech industry harvest and abuse user data to construct eerily detailed profiles on individuals, in order to sell these in real time bidding auctions to online advertisers, who out-bid each other for the opportunity to serve users individualized marketing in the micromoments, they visit a website.

Archiving Log Files: Feature Guide for File Storage and Archiving

Every organization that handles large volumes of data should implement an archiving system to separate active from inactive data, including log files. With recent changes in data laws in the EU and the growing needs for log archiving, finding a quality file storage and archiving solution is more important than ever. We will discuss the reasons for archiving data and show you how to successfully store logs and use the Archive feature in Graylog Enterprise.