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4 Steps to Monitor Your Cron Jobs Using PushMon

It is imperative to keep a close watch on all the Cron jobs you have defined on your system, this would include checking errors and validation of codes. For monitoring of defined Cron Jobs, a developer can use a “Hosted monitoring system” like PushMon. This kind of a system is defined as a push monitoring system as it depends on receiving signals from Cron jobs for monitoring and error notification. A system like PushMon has the following 4 steps in its monitor of your Cron job.

Docker image scanning - How to implement open source container security (part 2).

In this article we will cover Docker image scanning with open source container security / image scanning tools. We will explain how to to deploy and setup Docker image scanning: both on private Docker repositories, and as a CI/CD pipeline validation step. We will also explore ways of integrating image scanning with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes runtime configuration features and runtime security tools like Falco.

5 questions on the latest ITSM trends

Last month, Atlassian attended SITS 2018, The Service Desk and IT Show. We staffed a busy booth, demoing our software and learning about challenges facing the support managers, analysts, IT directors, and CTOs in attendance. Our own Principal Solutions Engineer, Paul Buffington, also spoke to an overflowing crowd about best practices for incident management. We sat down with Paul to get his thoughts on some of the most noteworthy ITSM trends.

Mattermost 5.1: New GIF selector, auto-linking plugin, subpath support and more

Mattermost 5.1 has new features that will help your team accomplish even more: GIF selector – express yourself more clearly by adding the perfect GIFs for the occasion without leaving the Mattermost interface, Auto-linking plugin – link messages to other content automatically to increase productivity and empower workers to easily find information they need.

PagerDuty Now Available on AWS Marketplace

SAN FRANCISCO – July 16, 2018 – PagerDuty, a global leader in digital operations management, today announced that it has expanded its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is now available on AWS Marketplace. This enables AWS customers to purchase subscriptions to PagerDuty more easily and quickly.

How to Create an Effective Incident Response Playbook

Oftentimes, enterprises struggle to notify customers, employees, partners and other key stakeholders about incidents. Yet failure to maintain constant communication with key stakeholders may slow down incident response. Worst of all, a lack of communication may put customer relationships in danger and lead to revenue losses, brand reputation damage and other long-lasting business issues.

Paul Dix | Flux (#fluxlang): a new (time series) data scripting language

Paul will outline his vision around the platform and give the latest updates on Flux (a new Data Scripting language), the decoupling of query and storage, the impact of hybrid cloud environments on architecture, cardinality, and discuss the technical directions of the platform. This talk will walk through the vision and architecture with demonstrations of working prototypes of the projects.