This is the first in a series on server monitoring. The primary focus of these posts is monitoring in a *nix environment. Monitoring servers is important. Whether it be finding an issue in a test environment prior to deploying or debugging an issue in production, we need access to information on our server to be able to tease apart what went wrong.
OpsGenie is pleased to announce an enhanced integration with Zendesk, building off of our existing bidirectional integration to now support incidents.
Ahoy there. Continuous shipping: a concept many companies talk about but never get around to implementing. In the first post of this three-part series, we discussed the use case for continuous shipping. Let’s move on to part two: the integration and deployment stages of the continuous shipping process. Part three will wrap up the series with a look at the monitoring and feedback phases. All aboard that’s coming aboard.
How much time do you spend every week trying to find things? At home, it’s finding your keys and, at work, it’s finding the root cause of a bug or an old pull requests that introduced the bug. Since we’re not in the business of tracking your keys, Bitbucket Server 5.13 is making it easier to discover repositories and find pull requests tied to a given commit. You can also enjoy support for Git v2, with faster no-op fetches.
Citrix Director is a web-based monitoring console for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop virtualization platforms that allows administrators to control and monitor virtual applications and desktops. Starting with version 7, Citrix Director is the default management tool, replacing the erstwhile Citrix EdgeSight.
Today we’ve introduced an overhaul of our reporting tool which will make it much easier to get the exact data you want sent out to the people who need to see it. Previously it was only possible to send an automatic report for all uptime tests in your StatusCake account.
Data safety is a major concern for users when surfing the Internet. The complete knowledge of what their computer is sending across the browser to the website they are visiting might not always be clear to most users, but the reassurance that that data is in safe hands and will not be misused is sufficient.
Say hello to custom domains with support for SSL! One of the most requested features is finally here, in release v1.13, you are now able to easily configure a custom domain for your status page. Start by creating a CNAME record in your DNS manager that points from your domain to dns.statuspal.io,
Not all problems or issues in web development can be detected during development or testing. There are even web application errors that are hard to catch like runtime errors. Most PHP developers or server administrators will just look at the web server or database logs once an issue arises. They would just grep the logs for errors or timestamps in which the error occurred. This method of troubleshooting PHP problems requires a high technical skill and would take a long time to find the root cause.
This week we announced the dates for GrafanaCon LA and officially opened up the CFP! While we can’t predict the weather, we can be almost certain it will be blizzard-free this time around. Also, if you’re going to be in Munich next week for PromCon, please be sure and say hello!
