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AWS Centralized Logging Guide

The key challenge with modern visibility on clouds like AWS is that data originates from various sources across every layer of the application stack, is varied in format, frequency, and importance and all of it needs to be monitored in real-time by the appropriate roles in an organization. An AWS centralized logging solution, therefore, becomes essential when scaling a product and organization.

InfluxDB as an IoT Edge Historian: A Crawl/Walk/Run Approach

The question of how to get data into a database is one of the most fundamental aspects of data processing that developers face. Data collection can be challenging enough when you’re dealing with local devices. Adding data from edge devices presents a whole new set of challenges. Yet the exponential increase in IoT edge devices means that companies need proven and reliable ways to collect data from them.

How to Lower CPU Usage

Is your Central Processing Unit (CPU) maxing out and slowing your PC to a crawl? There's a good chance you have experienced this issue if you run high-demand software for things like graphic design, video editing, or gaming. It can be frustrating enough without factoring in how hard it can be to trace down the source of the problem. In this article, we'll look at how to remedy high CPU usage on your machine or machines.

Advanced Automation in NinjaOne: Auto-Install Applications

This blog post is a companion piece to our Advanced Automation in NinjaOne webinar, providing step-by-step instructions for setting up the Auto-Install Applications example explored during that webinar. The full webinar recording provides multiple examples, tips, and suggestions. This blog post and webinar recording should be consumed together, click here to jump ahead to an in-depth explanation of the auto-install example or you can view the entire recording below.

Grok Pattern Examples for Log Parsing

Searching and visualizing logs is next to impossible without log parsing, an underappreciated skill loggers need to read their data. Parsing structures your incoming (unstructured) logs so that there are clear fields and values that the user can search against during investigations, or when setting up dashboards. The most popular log parsing language is Grok. You can use Grok plugins to parse log data in all kinds of log management and analysis tools, including the ELK Stack and Logz.io.

SolarWinds Orion + Squadcast: Alert Routing Made Easy

SolarWinds Orion is a scalable infrastructure monitoring and management platform. It is designed to simplify IT administration for on-premises, hybrid, and software as a service (SaaS) environments, in a single pane of glass. SolarWinds Orion ensures you do not have to struggle with numerous incompatible point monitoring products, as it consolidates the full suite of monitoring capabilities into one platform with cross-stack integrated functionality. Squadcast is an end-to-end incident response tool.

Why DevOps is all about creating one team

A Contract Solutions Architect for a manufacturing software development company, Tonie Huizer has 20+ years’ experience working with Azure, SQL and other Microsoft technologies. A Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate, he has the knowledge to design, build, test, and maintain cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure.

The Best Open Source Logging Tools

Users of open-source log collectors and log monitoring solutions often preferred these solutions due to them being well suited for speed, flexibility and their ability to attract talented contributors who are willing to invest time to maintain technology projects they are passionate about. In this post, we’ll look at some of the best free and open-source logging tools out there today.