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Communicate During Events with Opsgenie's New Email Templates

Emails are one of the most popular notification methods of Opsgenie when reaching out to your users. Now, you can create Email Templates which represent your company’s style and streamline communication processes! Email Templates are available for the emails sent out for Mass Notifications and Stakeholder Notifications, and you can customize of the content of the emails depending on your needs.

How Customers Save Time and Money with Mattermost

First, an introduction. My name is Matt Yonkovit. In September, I joined Mattermost as the head of Customer Success. For the last 13 years, I’ve helped customers succeed using open source software. My goal at Mattermost is to build out a world-class support and success program that enables our customers and community to use Mattermost to revolutionize their business processes and workflow.

EKS vs. KOPS

In the past, applications would be deployed by installation on a host, using the operating system package manager. This was a heavy solution with tremendous reliance on the operating system package manager and increased complexity with libraries, configuration, executables and so on all interconnected. Then came containers. Containers are small and fast, and are isolated from each other and from the host.

Automatically Map, Visualize and Troubleshoot Your Citrix Infrastructure with Topology View

One of the single biggest issues that Citrix administrators are forced to deal with is the sheer complexity of their Citrix systems. Not only is there complexity associated with the Citrix software itself, but the Citrix software also has a dependency upon a number of supporting infrastructure components. All of this complexity can make troubleshooting extraordinarily difficult whenever problems arise. An inexperienced administrator may not even know where to start.

Elasticsearch Ingest Node vs Logstash Performance

Starting from Elasticsearch 5.0, you’re able to define pipelines within it that process your data, in the same way you’d normally do it with something like Logstash. We decided to take it for a spin and see how this new functionality (called Ingest) compares with Logstash filters in both performance and functionality. Is it worth sending data directly to Elasticsearch or should we keep Logstash?

Best Practices for Instrumenting Containers with AppDynamics Agents

In this blog I will show some best practices for instrumenting Docker containers, using docker-compose with a few popular AppDynamics application agent types. The goal here is to avoid rebuilding your application containers in the event of an agent upgrade, or having to hard-code AppDynamics configuration into your container images. In my role as a DevOps engineer working on AppDynamics’ production environments, I use these techniques to simplify our instrumented container deployments.

Reserved Instances: Use It or Lose It

Reserved instances are one of those things that, when you first hear about them, you say, “Wow! I could save a lot of money!” And then you start to try and figure out how many you need? What sizes? Which operating systems? In which regions? Should they be convertible? Should I choose a 1-year or 3-year term? All up-front, partial up-front, or no up-front? How much compute am I actually going to need over that term?