Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Cloud automation can do a lot for your organization, making it possible to automate resource creation, management, and housekeeping tasks. If you’ve thought that cloud automation is out of reach, or you’re curious to learn what it can do, we’re excited to announce a brand new webinar that can help! Discover cloud automation in action and walk away with code that you can get up and running within an hour.

In this article, we will look at what Puppet is and why it is important to monitor Puppet server metrics. We will also analyze the tools that help us monitor Puppet’s performance. Ultimately we will learn about the benefits of using Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to monitor Puppet server metrics. Sign up for MetricFire free trial today or book a demo with the MetricFire team to understand how you can take advantage of its monitoring solutions.

For most organizations, GitHub is mission critical. Your GitHub repositories likely also contain some of your organization’s most sensitive data. GitHub provides tools to help you protect and govern this data, with tools such as audit logs, code scanning alerts, and secret scanning alerts. However, analyzing these logs and alerts through GitHub’s UI can be challenging. For example, looking for trends in your code scanning alerts over time through GitHub’s UI is just not possible.

Web servers are among the most important components in modern IT infrastructures. They host the websites, web services, and web applications that we use on a daily basis. Social networking, media streaming, software as a service (SaaS), and other activities wouldn’t be possible without the use of web servers. And with the advent of cloud computing and the movement of more services online, web servers and their monitoring are only becoming more important.