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Service and process monitoring: At a glance

With Site24x7 Server Monitoring, you can track the availability and system-level metrics of your servers, including CPU, memory, disk usage, and more. But did you know that you can also monitor the performance of each and every service and process running on your servers? Don't fall behind Almost all applications rely on a large number of services (for Windows) and processes (for Linux) to run smoothly and effectively.

Kafka monitoring: Metrics that matter

Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that acts as a publish-subscribe messaging queue by receiving data from various source systems and making it available to various systems and applications in real time. Key advantages for utilizing Kafka are that it provides durable storage, meaning the data stored within it cannot be easily tampered with, and it is highly scalable, so it can handle a large increase in users, workloads, and transactions when necessary.

Speed up ticket resolution in your ServiceDesk Plus help desk with automation

Helping businesses deliver a seamless customer experience and ensure zero downtime has always been a key aspect of ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. One of this service desk solution’s powerful integrations is with Site24x7, wherein tickets are logged for specific Site24x7 alerts like Trouble, Critical, and Down. Once the incidents are resolved in Site24x7, their associated tickets are automatically closed in ServiceDesk Plus.

Speeding up Rails with Memoization

Whoever first said that "the fastest code is no code" must have really liked memoization. After all, memoization speeds up your application by running less code. In this article, Jonathan Miles introduces us to memoization. We'll learn when to use it, how to implement it in Ruby, and how to avoid common pitfalls. Buckle up!

GitKraken Git GUI v7.0: Jira Integration

Jira users rejoice! We know many project managers rely on Jira, and developers are required to use it for issue tracking. The feedback we get from developers is that they don’t enjoy having to context switch to manage issues. Now, the best way to Jira is not going into Jira at all! You no longer have to leave the GitKraken Git GUI to do any of the following: *Paid features for Jira integration; free for GitKraken Boards integration.

Fostering Psychological Safety in Remote Teams

Psychological safety is a crucial component of any organization’s culture. Psychologically safe organizations are free to create, discuss, disagree, take risks, and make mistakes. These organizations are often the ones we see as key innovators in their unique industries. In other words, cultivating a culture of psychological safety is paramount in order to succeed.

Improving the Prometheus exporter for Amazon CloudWatch

A Prometheus CloudWatch exporter is a key element for anyone wanting to monitor AWS CloudWatch. Exporting CloudWatch metrics to a Prometheus server allows leveraging of the power of PromQL queries, integrating AWS metrics with those from other applications or cloud providers, and creating advanced dashboards for digging down into problems. But, who watches the watcher? Despite those advantages, using the wrong exporter or an incorrect configuration can have bad consequences in production environments.

On-call On-boarding Checklist

And it starts with the company culture. Irrespective of how small or large your team is, it’s wise to invest some time in creating a good on-call onboarding plan. A humane on-call is the mark of a good engineering culture. Being on-call means that you’re expected to be reachable for any issues that may occur during your shift. It’s easy to lose any and all motivation by just anxiously anticipating that mid-dinner ping.