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Top 10 cAdvisor Metrics for Prometheus

cAdvisor (container advisor) is an open-source container-monitoring platform developed and maintained by Google. It runs as a background daemon process for collecting, processing, and aggregating data into performance characteristics, resource usage statistics, and related information about running containers. With built-in support for Docker and literally any other container type out of the box, cAdvisor can be used to collect data on virtually any type of running container.

Preventing PII in Test environments

Data privacy and security are a top concern for most organizations. It’s easy to see why given changes over the past few years. These types of protections can be great for us as consumers. However, they also make it extremely difficult to create realistic production simulations in pre-production. It’s hard to rapidly develop new applications if you can’t iterate against realistic data.
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Network automation tools and their importance in today's networks

A network, as we all know, is the linking of two or more devices for resource sharing, file exchanging, or electronic communication. In a huge network organization consisting of more than 10,000 devices, managing every device manually is a hectic task and near impossible for network admins. To overcome this challenge, a software-based feature known as network automation was invented. The main purpose of network automation is to automate tasks and reduce both the workload and human errors. This automation works through a network automation tool.

Elastigroup now supports multiple AMI architectures in a single group

Today, we are excited to announce that, Spot by Netapp’s Elastigroup can support the use of multiple AMIs in a single Elastigroup. The release of this feature allows customers to utilize both AWS Graviton and x86 instances in the same groups and allows the Elastigroup autoscaler to launch instances based on the best spot pricing and availability in real time.

Preventing A $70K Cost Spike In 4 Clicks - And Protecting Our Profit (Video)

At CloudZero, the thing we do better than any other cost solution is connect the dots between cloud cost and your businesses. While other solutions offer reporting and dashboards that answer, “How much did we spend?”, CloudZero also enables you to answer “Why?”. Was it because you onboarded a new customer? Did your team push new code? Or did usage of a feature tick up after some clever UX adjustments?

How to Find the Ghost Servers Haunting Your Data Center

It's almost Halloween, and we have a spooky and scary story for you. Don’t jump out of your seat, but did you know that most data centers are haunted and overrun by the undead? That’s right. Ghost servers (also known as zombie servers) are everywhere. In fact, up to 30% of servers in any data center may be ghost servers. Ghost servers are servers that are deployed in cabinets and powered on but are sitting idle without performing any useful function.

Goats on the Road: DevOp Struggles

The best part of my job is talking to you, our prospects, and customers, about your logging and data practices. I love listening to what you are doing and hope to accomplish, so I can get a sense of the end state. My goal is to brainstorm solutions that provide overall value across the enterprise, and not just aim for a narrow tactical win with limited impact. In late September, I hung out at a local DevOps conference in Brooklyn with the NYC Cribl sales team.

Routing alerts from AWS Elastic Beanstalk via CloudWatch

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers 100+ services, each focusing on a specific area of functionality. However, it can be challenging to pick the right services for the task and also to provision them. AWS Elastic Beanstalk, lets you easily deploy and manage applications without the need to learn about the underlying infrastructure that runs these applications.