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Maximize Monitoring in Rancher 2.5 with Prometheus

We dedicate a lot of space in our blog to the topic of monitoring. That’s because when you’re managing Kubernetes clusters, things can change quickly. It’s important that you have tools to monitor the health and resource metrics of your clusters. In Rancher 2.5, we introduced a new version of our monitoring based on the Prometheus Operator, which provides Kubernetes-native deployment and management of Prometheus and related monitoring components.

Key Network Monitoring Challenges Every Remote Team Faces

Remote teams are not a new concept. Several organizations have been outsourcing development and support tasks to nearshore and offshore bases for more than a decade. And remote working is gradually increasing given the benefits it gives, like high productivity levels, lower costs, and access to a global talent pool. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, virtual teams and remote working have truly become mainstream and are being embraced by both employers and employees alike.

JFrog Xray Quick Scan Guide

JFrog Xray is a Software Composition Analysis tool (SCA) which is tightly integrated with JFrog Artifactory to ensure security and compliance governance for the organization binaries throughout the SDLC. This video will take you through configuring your JFrog Platform instance to start displaying security and license information about the artifacts in your JFrog Artifactory as fast as possible.

Generate process metrics to analyze historical trends in resource consumption

Your application’s health depends on the performance of its underlying infrastructure. Unexpectedly heavy processes can deprive your services of the resources they need to run reliably and efficiently, and prevent other workloads from executing. If one of your applications is triggering a high CPU or RSS memory utilization alert, the issue has likely occurred before.

Infinity Welcomes Careful Versioning

Our distinguished competition took a puzzling position of “Imagine there’s no versions”. At Cloudsmith we think that’s crazy. Software versions are what makes software development possible. They make deployment possible. They make distribution possible. How else can you understand and navigate complex dependency trees or be sure your code will interact with a third party’s? Hint - you can’t! You must care about versions. And updates.

Tips and Tricks When Using an All-in-One Monitoring Solution

Modern IT infrastructure is a complex mixture of hardware, software, networking, and ... humans. As the data we manage continues to grow, companies rapidly expand the size of their IT environments. Managing a large-scale infrastructure and ensuring its health, performance, compliance and keeping it running smoothly is not an easy task. But with the help of an all-in-one infrastructure and virtualization monitoring solution, you can easily control everything.

Console Connect Ecosystem Update November 2020

The Console Connect ecosystem is rapidly expanding. To help you keep up-to-speed, each month we are bringing you updates on all our latest data centre, cloud and SaaS interconnect locations, as well as introducing you to some of our newest ecosystem partners. Now, we’ve extended your reach even further! In the last month, we have on-boarded new data centres, cloud locations and new SaaS partners!

How to get started with Ubuntu Desktop on Raspberry Pi

Ubuntu Desktop 20.10 sees much-anticipated support for the Raspberry Pi 🍓 Download an optimised image that transforms a Raspberry Pi 4 (with 4GB or 8GB of RAM) into a complete Ubuntu workstation. This wouldn’t have been possible without the Ubuntu community, the Raspberry Pi Foundations support and their incredible hardware, and you, the users. You can also read more about Ubuntu Desktop on Raspberry Pi.