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Monitoring is a critical aspect of cloud computing. At any time, you need to know what’s working, what isn’t, and have the ability to respond to changes occurring in a given environment. Effective monitoring begins with the ability to collect performance data from across an ecosystem and present it in a useful way. So the easier it is to manage monitoring data across an ecosystem, the more effective those monitoring solutions are and the more efficient that ecosystem is.

They are like 5 stages of an incident: 1. Assess impact 2. Inform customers (statuspage) 3. Identify the issue 4. Mitigate the issue 5. Resolve the incident Then there’s followup and further work. Also important to note that (2) should be ongoing as you progress. Updating the status page should be done within reasonable periods – e.g. every 15-20 mins unless you specify otherwise.

What a difference a year makes. Each year, data center, lab, and edge sites become more complex, more distributed, and more difficult to manage. Managers must stay up to date on the latest trends and advancements in data center management best practices and technologies to maintain uptime, increase the efficiency of capacity utilization, and improve the productivity of people.

Holiday season's peak traffic is the most challenging period for SREs and on-call engineers. In this blog, we have highlighted the things that SREs can do to make the holiday season less chaotic. The recently concluded Black Friday weekend could have potentially been the most challenging shift for on-call engineers working in the Retail or E-Commerce sector. Since such peak-traffic events push the system to the limits, engineering teams are engulfed in a lot of tension preparing for it.

Software upgrades are typically about offering new upgrades and improvements that enhance the end user experience, offer greater efficiency, and provide a more feature-rich product. These are also some of the reasons why Uptrends has released a new version of the Full Page Check monitor, which offers lots of benefits over the previous version. The demand for more metrics has grown over time not only for how the elements load but also how the page is presented to the end users.

Big Data, a serious shift toward rapid experimentation, is the need of the day for most firms who are interested in reaping its potential benefits and constructing a wise and clear path to the changeover. Big Data has been the topic of discussion for a few years and is a method for businesses to acquire large amounts of data on their customers in order to deal with that data while respecting customer privacy and adhering to ethical guidelines.

Your streaming data is a valuable asset. Find out why you should be hoarding and analyzing it.

As we continue to adapt following the pandemic, which has impact us all both personally and professionally, we take this moment to commemorate the IT veterans we've lost to the pandemic. With the pandemic drastically changing the way we do business, we have conducted a study to understand the state of IT management at the height of these radical changes and analyzed how to offer a holistic approach to changing IT management needs to prepare for the post-pandemic IT world.

Yesterday was my worst day for a very long time. We spent so much time promoting our Qovery Engine to the open-source community and getting those ~3800 stars. I woke up and discovered that we had lost all the stars and forks from our repository. But what happened?