As you may be aware, we recently rolled out some exciting new features to your off-site status page. In the coming weeks, I’ll be highlighting some of these and taking a closer look at how each may be used to enhance your experience with StatusKeeper and hopefully make your job a little easier.
We live in exciting and worrying times. In serverless and containers, we have two amazing technologies that provide productive, machine-agnostic abstractions for engineers to work with. And yet, there seems to be an unbridgeable chasm between the two camps. If you have read anything I wrote in the last two years, you know that I am firmly in the serverless camp. But I was also an early adopter of containers.
Time for another roundup of recent StackStorm Exchange pack updates. It’s easy to miss the new packs and updates to old ones. This month it’s Bolt, Backups, Slack, Jenkins and more. Read on for details.
You were sold the promise of the cloud. The performance gains were going to make everything better. Costs would go down since you’d only be paying for the resources you were actually using. It sounded magical. You’d look like a star and save your company money. Unfortunately, when all was said and done, the cloud didn’t deliver.
We’ve just added an integration with Mattermost which means you can now get all of your StatusCake alerts through to this application. Mattermost is a deployable, cloud based, open source alternative to services like Slack, HipChat, and Pushover. The focus is on security and collaboration, with all of the usual essential team functionalities such as File Sharing, Custom integrations, threaded conversations and group messaging.
This article describes two Windows Performance Monitor disk queue length counters—Current Disk Queue Length and Average Disk Queue Length—identifies potential problems, and provides basic solutions.
What’s A Flat On-Call Structure? A flat on-call structure is an on-call schedule that has multiple people getting notified of the same incident at the same time. There’s no escalations, no hierarchy, no layers.
Prometheus monitoring is fast becoming one of the Docker and Kubernetes monitoring tool to use. This guide explains how to implement Kubernetes monitoring with Prometheus. You will learn how to deploy Prometheus server, metrics exporters, setup kube-state-metrics, pull, scrape and collect metrics, configure alerts with Alertmanager and dashboards with Grafana.
When your pager goes off at 3:00 a.m. and you need to begin your investigation, where do you start? Before you can attack the problem, you need to know the lay of the land: What else is potentially affected by this failing service? What are its dependencies? Where are the probable root causes? With the new Datadog Service Map, you can visualize the topology of your application to answer these questions and more.
Because email is communication is prevalent in today’s business landscape, use Uptime.com’s email server checks to continually monitor email server status. Let’s get familiar with the three different types of email checks you can implement. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) checks monitor the flow of email across the Internet.
