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Together, Mattermost and GitLab make ChatOps more secure than ever before

Modern IT organizations are increasingly using ChatOps to operate critical business systems and move forward faster. ChatOps is a new way of working that brings people, files, conversations and tools (via commands) together on a central enterprise messaging workspace, accelerating decision making and innovation while increasing agility.

Announcing Icinga Tour 2019

We’re happy to announce our Icinga Tour 2019! The Icinga Tour is a series of Icinga Camps on different dates spread all over the globe through the year. We’re organising this series of events in coorporation with our local partners. Through the past years we hosted various Icinga Camps, for this year we decided to start with defined dates to give everyone the chance to plan ahead.

The Need of Cloud for Pharmaceutical Companies

Pharmaceutical companies are witnessing a shift in the way they function where innovative products, beyond the pill concepts, automated machine systems, etc. are defining new boundaries. Eroom’s law acknowledges the fact which states the cost and time taken to develop a new drug almost doubles every nine years.

Announcing Graylog v3.0 Beta 1

Today we are releasing the first public beta of Graylog v3.0. This release includes a whole new content pack system, an overhauled collector sidecar, new reporting capabilities, improved alerting with greater flexibility, support for Elasticsearch 6.x, a preview version of an awesome new search page called Views, and tons of other improvements and bug fixes.

Scalability Worst Practices - How Not to Design Applications

Scalability is a core requirement of modern applications. Applications need to be able to handle sudden changes in demand without losing resilience or performance. With the popularity of cloud computing and microservices, DevOps teams have a countless number of platforms and tools for deploying scalable applications. However, true scalability involves much more than just migrating an application to the cloud.

Check configuration upgrades with the Sensu Go sandbox

As a followup to my previous post, I’d like to walk you through using the Sensu Go sandbox to test upgrading different parts of the event pipeline from Sensu 1.x to Sensu Go. First up we have a Sensu 1.x check configuration using the check_ssh command from Nagios Plugins. This walkthrough can be used as a pattern for converting existing Sensu 1.x check configurations into Sensu Go.

Case Study: How One of the Largest Medical Care Providers in North America Made 200k+ Patients' Happier

This leading medical care provider manages thousands of facilities and dozens of various patient portals. They needed to find an efficient way to analyze and monitor different services, to obtain maximum availability of their systems – so that patients/doctors get the information they need without interruptions. By implementing XpoLog: Their environment consists of multiple applications, centralized in a main data center, which interacts with all their facilities.

Why Should You Bother With Information Technology Operations Analytics?

Your organization’s IT system is a complex network of intercommunicating devices that can provide you with an abundance of useful data - if you apply the right practices to gather and filter it. However, to realize how each of these sources interacts and interconnects with one another, you need will to master the art of Information Technology Operations Analytics.