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12 Easy Ways to Improve Command Center Operations | Netreo On-Demand Webinars

Command Centers often struggle with limited visibility — especially shared visibility between teams. Additionally, teams are using loosely coupled discrete tools that create information silos. As a result, there is lack of communication causing redundant efforts and slow issue resolution. So, how do you address these challenges to improve Command Center operations?

5 Little Known Ways to Simplify Systems and Network Monitoring | Netreo On-Demand Webinars

Some of the most common challenges in systems and network management include over-alerting, too much administrative overhead, and consistently being stuck firefighting issues instead of preventing them. To help overcome these issues, we’ve identified 5 simple ways to simplify monitoring within your IT infrastructure.

5 Tips to Manage Multi-Cloud and Serverless Enterprise Environments | Netreo On-Demand Webinars

More than 60% of enterprise workloads are already hosted in the cloud, and that number is only expected to rise in 2019. 81% of enterprises are using a multi-cloud strategy. And yet, many organizations struggle with managing application performance and user expectations, even after the day to day administration of the server hardware has disappeared into the cloud. This expert led webinar explores real-world solutions to the most common cloud management challenges, and how to make the most effective use of your tools, process, and monitoring strategy to make sure you’re exceeding your SLAs and business objectives.

Database Monitoring and Performance

dbaddon.mp4 - Google Drive Sign in Most modern web applications are heavily reliant on persisting data with relational databases, and so it’s no surprise that a large part of application performance monitoring relates to keeping an eye on database performance to ensure that our SQL queries are as efficient as possible. With this in mind, Scout features a Database Add-on module, and in this video, we are going to take a closer look at what it has to offer.

Markley Group Gains Better Visibility, Automation with OpsRamp

Markley Group is a Boston-based data center leader that provides co-location and private cloud services through a three-million square foot data center portfolio. The company was founded in 1991, when there was no such thing as the cloud. Today, many of its customers are experimenting in public cloud but often have workload requirements which are better suited or more affordable running on private infrastructure, according to Patrick Houston, Director of Engineering at Markley Group.

Configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector

The OpenTelemetry Collector is a new, vendor-agnostic agent that can receive and send metrics and traces of many formats. It is a powerful tool in a cloud-native observability stack, especially when you have apps using multiple distributed tracing formats, like Zipkin and Jaeger; or, you want to send data to multiple backends like an in-house solution and a vendor. This article will walk you through configuring and deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector for such scenarios.

Enhancing the DevOps Experience on Kubernetes with Logging

Keeping track of what’s going on in Kubernetes isn’t easy. It’s an environment where things move quickly, individual containers come and go, and a large number of independent processes involving separate users may all be happening at the same time. Container-based systems are by their nature optimized for rapid, efficient response to a heavy load of requests from multiple users in a highly abstracted environment and not for high-visibility, real-time monitoring.

Implementing infrastructure as code with Ansible

If you’re here, it means that your application is a hit, coming through a long way of development and deployments. Your application is finally in a stage where you or your team need to set up more servers than you can handle manually, and you have to provision them fast. There’s also the need to make sure that all of them have the same configuration, packages, and versions in order for your application to have the same behavior in all of them.