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Installing the HG Heroku Monitoring & Dashboards Add-on

HG or HostedGraphite provides a complete infrastructure and application monitoring platform from a suite of open-source monitoring tools. Depending on the setup, you can choose Hosted Graphite as your data source and view all required metrics on beautiful Grafana dashboards in real time. Hosted Graphite offers a wide range of tools, add-ons, and plugins that make it possible to measure, analyze, and visualize large amounts of data about your applications with ease.

Is Your Ecommerce Site Ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday?

The holiday shopping season is one of the most stressful periods for operators of retail and ecommerce businesses, as the seasonal surge of holiday shoppers can put massive amounts of stress and strain on even the most well-architected websites. Here’s a recent example from 2021: The Office Depot website suffered an outage during Cyber Monday that knocked the online shop offline for hours, impacting the ability of customers to place orders online.

Sunbird Named a Top 10 Most Innovative Data Center Company to Watch by CIO Insights

We are proud to share that Sunbird was recognized by CIO Insights as one of their 10 Most Innovative Data Center Companies to Watch. "We will present the leading data center companies in the world and their contribution to making the world more digital-friendly," said Richard Thomas, Editor, CIO Insights. "They are constantly innovating and disrupting the data center space with their ability to look at the future.

Scaling Ingest With Ingest Telemetry

With the introduction of Environments & Services, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in the creation of new datasets. These new datasets are smaller than ones created with Honeycomb Classic, where customers would typically place all of their services under a single, large dataset. This change has presented some interesting scaling challenges, which I’ll detail in this post, along with the solution we used, and how we leveraged Honeycomb’s own telemetry to scale Honeycomb.

How IT Departments Can Manage the Infrastructure to Boost Microsoft Teams Call Quality

The person speaking to you can only hear a sort of robot voice and the dreaded pixilation of your face on a video chat has descended on your important call with your team or, much, much worse, with a VIP client – does panic set in? Well, if your IT team doesn’t have a good way to boost Teams call quality then yes. Inconsistent Teams call quality is a problem plaguing businesses in every sector, and it’s an issue that can have a real negative impact on an organization.

What Is Splunk & What Does It Do? An Introduction To Splunk

Hi! We’re Splunk, and we’re glad you’re visiting us today. Honestly, we hear from people far and wide about “What does Splunk do?”, “Does the name Splunk mean something?” And of course, “How can I learn Splunk?” I wrote this article to help answer all these questions for you and point you towards whatever question you want answered.

Dashboard Design: Visualization Choices and Configurations

There are many visualization types and configurations available to choose from. In general, keep your visualizations as simple and straightforward as possible to avoid distraction and highlight only the most important information. If there is too much unnecessary information on the page it can be overwhelming and focus can be misdirected to unimportant details.

Configuring notifications for your CI builds with Slack and Twilio

CircleCI notification orbs were built to deliver messages to the appropriate channels when a build is successful or when it fails. This helps everyone involved in a project stay up-to-date with the status of the latest build. In this tutorial, you will explore and implement notifications sent to a Slack channel and also sent via SMS. To accomplish this task, you will make use of the Slack and Twilio orbs from the CircleCI orb registry.

SD-WAN Troubleshooting: How to Troubleshoot SD-WAN Networks

SD-WAN networks are more popular than ever. With the increasing use of cloud-based applications, many businesses rely on SD-WAN services to deliver optimal Internet, cloud, and UC performance. But like all networks, SD-WAN can experience network issues that affect user experience and network performance. So keep reading to learn how to troubleshoot SD-WAN networks using Network Monitoring.

Kubernetes Monitoring: Metrics, Tools & Best Practices

Monitoring any type of resource can be challenging. But Kubernetes monitoring is a special kind of challenge. Not only are there a variety of different Kubernetes layers and resource types to monitor, but collecting monitoring data from Kubernetes can be difficult if you use a managed Kubernetes service that limits your access to the underlying infrastructure. For all of these reasons, Kubernetes monitoring requires a different approach.