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Kubernetes observability tutorial: K8s cluster setup and demo app deployment

The easiest way to get the Elastic Stack up and running for this tutorial, is to spin up a 14-day free trial of our Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud. A few clicks (no credit cards) and you’ll have your cluster up and running. Or if you prefer, download the Elastic Stack and install locally. All of the instructions in this tutorial can be easily amended to work with a standalone Elasticsearch cluster on your own hardware.

3 Reasons to Use Auvik's Remote Management Features

In today’s world, it isn’t always practical or possible to be on site to troubleshoot every network issue that pops up. Whether you’re under mandatory stay-at-home orders because of a global pandemic, in the middle of a surprise snowstorm, or sleeping cozy in your bed 60 miles away, being able to access remotely the network would make your life infinitely easier. With Auvik’s remote management features, it’s possible.

Enterprises that halted IT cloud migrations have been hit with 2.5x outages during global pandemic, new research highlights

Survey respondents who continued their cloud journey experienced less IT performance issues—Virtana and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) to present full survey findings during June 25th webinar

How To Keep Track Of Your Android Applications

Keeping track of application usage and the installation of software on your Android phone or tablet is an essential activity, both for device management and your overall security. In this regard, it’s also advisable to monitor how your Android applications are tracking you, in terms of your physical location, activities on the local device, and online. Here are some tips on how to achieve this.

Best Practices for Database Performance Monitoring

Like application monitoring, database performance monitoring is a critical discipline. If there isn’t a code issue, there’s a good chance you have a database issue. Key metrics such as CPU and memory usage can give you important insights into your database’s performance. In addition, by monitoring slow queries, and inordinate number of database requests, you can combine this knowledge to optimize both.

Observability Redefined: 3 steps to improve your IT infrastructure

Are you already applying IT observability to keep up with rapid changes in your IT operations landscape? Currently, the fast adoption of new infrastructures, including hybrid clouds, containers, and microservices, challenges the market. As organizations move towards these highly dynamic architectures, the requirements for traditional IT monitoring change dramatically. More data keeps on coming, and having the time and skill to keep up with this ongoing stream seems to get harder and harder.

API Management Trends 2020

APIs revolutionized the digital landscape by introducing a new level of programming flexibility and ease of integration. Organizations turned to APIs to push innovation and creating an API economy. It was a key driver in the eCommerce industry, businesses like eBay leveraged APIs to generate additional revenue. eBay introduced APIs twenty years ago providing developers a platform to build applications that improved businesses. Today, eBay’s APIs generate over a billion dollars in business.

Your services are backed by SLAs. What's backing your SLAs?

You’ve made promises to your customers and end users, quantifying them in SLAs (service-level agreements) to instill confidence that those commitments will be honored. SLAs give users peace of mind. But what about your peace of mind? How can you guarantee your hybrid infrastructure and applications are continuously meeting or exceeding those SLAs? I’m going to explore how to ensure SLAs are met to maintain productivity and protect revenue.

Webinar Highlights: How EnerKey Uses InfluxDB and Azure to Save Customers Millions

EnerKey’s CTO Martti Kontula recently presented on how EnerKey uses InfluxDB Enterprise and Microsoft Azure to power their IoT platform which enables their customers to save millions of euros! Their analytics platform uses sensor data to detect energy usage fluctuations triggered by weather and geospatial data. If you missed attending the live session, we have shared the recording and the slides for everyone to review and watch at your leisure.