In this post, we’ll show you how to use Datadog to collect metrics, request traces, and logs from a Rails application running on Passenger, Apache, and MySQL. (Though we will focus on these integrations in this guide, you can also monitor NGINX servers and PostgreSQL database systems with Datadog.)
With millions of downloads for its various components since first being introduced, the ELK Stack is the world’s most popular log management platform. In contrast, Splunk — the historical leader in the space — self-reports 15,000 customers total. But what exactly is ELK, and why is the software stack seeing such widespread interest and adoption? Let’s take a deeper dive.
Terraform is an open source orchestration tool for provisioning, managing, and versioning cloud infrastructure. Terraform uses a configuration file as a blueprint of the desired infrastructure state, and changes the target environment by updating or creating resources to match the defined state. Having a defined outline of your datacenter and following this “infrastructure as code” model allows for repeatable automation.
Kibana 6.3 was released a few weeks ago, together with new versions of Elasticsearch, Logstash and Beats, and despite the fact that this was not a major release, the new capabilities included in this version definitely deserve a close look.
The healthcare industry is currently laden with pagers. The joke is that not even drug dealers use pagers any more. However, almost 80% of doctors do use pagers. The main problems with pagers is that they impede efficient clinical communications and lack security. Here are 6 ways to improve clinical communications.
We've rolled out a bunch of new features designed to make it quicker and easier to monitor large numbers of websites - you can now add, edit and delete website monitors in bulk. Thanks to everyone who have submitted feature requests - this helps us focus the development of Downtime Monkey on the areas that you want.
In the entertainment world, building enterprise apps involves many challenges, such as compatibility with numerous devices and large files like HD videos, along with streaming media to millions of users simultaneously. But today’s entertainment apps are possible only because of a modern approach to software delivery—DevOps brings greater efficiency across the development pipeline.
ServiceDesk Plus users can now use an AD management plug-in to create and manage Active Directory (AD) users from the ServiceDesk Plus console. This plug-in will automatically add all AD user management actions to this help desk tool’s service catalog. Beyond technicians logging into ServiceDesk Plus to execute requests, regular users can access the tool to raise requests for user management actions.
One month after launch Sentry 9 may feel as though it descended from heaven, but it didn’t simply fall out of the sky. It’s a release that was long in the making, touched by virtually every member of our application engineering team. We made 1979 commits to our getsentry/sentry repo alone, with 2698 files changed, 458546 insertions, and 166290 deletions.
Information technology (IT) administrators overwhelmed with the task of maintaining physical infrastructure as their networks expand into cloud and hybrid-cloud systems can now have an enhanced view of their entire IT infrastructure with GroundWork Monitor, a unified monitoring platform by GroundWork Open Source, Inc.
