The phrase “better safe than sorry” gets thrown around whenever people talk about monitoring or getting observability into your AWS resources but the truth is that you can’t sit around and wait until a problem arises, you need to proactively look for opportunities to improve your application in order to stay one step ahead of the competition.

OpsRamp was recently featured in the 451 Research Impact report, OpsRamp Keeps Up With The Competition, Investing in ML, Kubernetes Monitoring. This report, written by Nancy Gohring, 451 Research’s senior analyst for Application and Infrastructure Performance, demonstrates how OpsRamp is one of the few vendors that has organically built and delivered a transformational SaaS solution for modern IT operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering teams.

In recent years, IT professionals have been progressively realizing that successful IT strategies actually depend on a simple question: who? Indeed, for once, instead of asking “what” or “how much,” they are shifting their focus towards the people ultimately impacted by IT decision making – their employees.

There is a lot to love about Kubernetes. It offers one of the best ways to deploy and run applications on a large pool of resources. With its easy-to-use UI and out-of-the-box capabilities like RBAC, monitoring, auditing, logging, and more, Rancher makes it easy to stand up and manage enterprise grade Kubernetes. Using Rancher, IT Operators can point to their cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) or datacenter and create a cluster with just a few clicks.

If you’ve been following Elasticsearch-related news over the past few months, you’ve most likely heard about a series of cases in which sensitive data stored in Elasticsearch clusters was exposed. Here’s a recap just in case — Equifax, CITI, AIESEC to name just a few.

As you probably know, source maps allow you to view source code context obtained from stack traces in their original, untransformed form. This view is particularly useful when attempting to debug minified code (like UglifyJS) or transpiled code (like TypeScript or ES6). We’ve made the analogy before, but source maps act as the decoder ring to your secret (minified or transpiled) code.

We've added a small but useful feature to Oh Dear! last month, which allows you to customize the recipient of your invoices.

Errors are a fact of life in web development, and even the world's greatest brands are not without fault. Errors can create unhappy customers, deter new ones and reduce revenues. An error monitoring solution offers a clear view of the most important errors based on how often they occur and how they impact users. It will give your engineering team confidence to deploy faster, and debug problems quickly, so they can get back to building new features.

Tigera is excited to announce several new capabilities with Tigera Secure Enterprise Edition 2.3, extending the ability to uncover sophisticated Kubernetes attacks. Tigera Anomaly Detection capabilities provide insight into unusual behaviors that compromise the security and performance of Kubernetes environments.

Ensuring that a Citrix infrastructure is working well is no easy job! Here are several free tools and scripts that can help you with your daily activities.