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7 Tips for Hyper-V Monitoring that Will Boost Your VM Performance

Hyper-V is one of the most popular virtualization software, especially for Windows systems and servers. However, no software or tool can be optimized to your advantage without proper monitoring. Now, you’re probably already monitoring your Hyper-V environments, but are you doing it the best way? This post will reveal seven important tips that can help reinforce your efforts to Hyper-V monitoring, especially cluster monitoring, which is a hard task.

The 18 most popular data source plugins for Grafana in 2021

As a composable solution, Grafana allows you to bring your data into dashboards natively without having to extract it, load it, or transform it. We believe in a “big tent” philosophy, which allows you to choose the tools that best suit your observability strategy, and with our plugins, Grafana is interoperable with more than 100 data sources.

Infrastructure as Code, part 1: create a Kubernetes cluster with Terraform

This series shows you how to get started with infrastructure as code (IaC). The goal is to help developers build a strong understanding of IaC through tutorials and code examples. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is an integral part of modern continuous integration pipelines. It is the process of managing and provisioning cloud and IT resources using machine readable definition files.

What is Kubernetes Lens?

As a DevOps Engineer, one day you’re performing magic in the terminal, settling clusters, and feeling like a god. On some other days, you feel like a total fraud and scam. Errors and bugs appear from everywhere, you don’t know where to start, and you don’t know where to look. Sadly, days like this come far too often. To be more specific, what often causes these bad days is none other than Kubernetes itself.

A Comprehensive Guide Of Website Navigation: How You Can Improve Your Site?

Do you want to give your visitors excellent navigation so they can land on their desired page correctly? Easy navigation around a website is of the up-most importance when it comes to website performance. In this guide we will share a detailed guide for you to make organized website navigations on your site.

How to determine the source of SaaS latency

One of the positive things that came out of events in 2020 was that many of us started working from home. At first, it was kind of weird. But once we realized that what we needed was available online, it became easier. All we had to do was figure out a few new apps, like Slack, Asana and Google Docs. Then, after a couple of weeks of working from home, many of us started having thoughts like, “I wonder if I could wear shorts and my favorite slippers?

Achieve Breakthrough Performance in Your Microsoft Environment

In a world where 1.145 trillion MB of data is generated every day, the art of database management has become more important than ever. I use the word “art” because it captures a sense of the wizardry needed to effectively manage data. After all, our world is dominated by mobile devices and hybrid IT environments. Database migrations happen regularly, and data resides both on-premises and in the cloud. All these things have brought a new complexity to database management.

Visualize and manage all of your services in one place with Dynamic Service Graph

In this digital era, technology systems are becoming increasingly complex. No longer can a single SME (subject matter expert) understand every facet of the system they run. Instead, much of this knowledge is siloed and exists as tribal knowledge within certain teams. Additionally, the rate of change is faster than ever, with code deploying and new services shipping at a rate unimaginable a few years ago.

Serverless Cost Optimization: 4 Ways To Lower Your Costs

Serverless services save time. When you switch to serverless architecture, you offload redundant cloud management activities to your cloud provider and gain more time to focus on the most important parts of your business — development and innovation. Even better, you only pay for what you use, so you don’t have to worry about committing to reserved instances or committing to a savings plan. But there’s a catch.