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Extending InfluxDB with Serverless Functions

Data ingestion and data analysis are the yin and yang of a time series platform. There are many resources to help you ingest data. Typical ingestions are agent-based, imports via CSVs, using client libraries, or via third-party technologies. Once your time series data arrives, analysis completes the circle and often leads to additional data collection, and so on and so forth.

Respond to Incidents Faster with iLert

iLert is an alerting and on-call management solution for ops teams and helps you to respond to incidents faster. It extends monitoring tools such as Icinga with advanced alerting through SMS, phone calls, and push notifications and lets you easily manage on-call duty with schedules and escalations. iLert is a SaaS company based in Germany and has been an integration partner with Icinga for over 5 years. This blog post outlines some of the features by using Icinga along with iLert.

Working from home: telecommuting open tools

«Every cloud has a silver lining». Popular sayings are wise and pragmatic. This year we added coronavirus and telecommuting to our daily vocabulary. Both words are compounds and the first one represents a danger that has massively propelled the second, whether we like it or not. Therefore, regarding remote working, in this post I will tell you all about the telecommuting open tools that we can use at home. Let’s go!

Can Observability Improve IT Ops? BigPanda's Field CTOs have the answer.

A Harrowing Landscape The increasing complexity of modern services is forcing IT Ops teams to employ a growing landscape of disparate tools to monitor the health of their IT Stack. In fact, the number of tools has grown so much in the last few years, that one wonders how IT Ops teams are even able to effectively configure, maintain, ingest, and process all the events that these tools create.

Serverless trends in 2020 you should know about

This post was originally published in JAXenter.com. Serverless is a relatively novel concept and cloud architectural model but has been advancing very quickly over the past 5 years. In this article, we’ve compiled a list of recent changes that are likely to shape how development teams use Serverless in practice. In this article, we’ll be heavily focussing on AWS serverless services. The cloud provider has been investing heavily in the advancement of Serverless.

IT Eases WFH Transition, Cuts Down Agency's Bureaucracy

Though there is an entire industry devoted to telling you otherwise, most people prefer to work for large organizations. On the one hand, their appeal makes perfect sense. Big employers offer higher salaries, better benefits, and a longer employee tenure. Yet, there are some noticeable wrinkles that come with life in a large organization. Chief among them, bigger companies often exhibit a poor overall Digital Employee Experience.

Why External Synthetic Monitoring is Required to Complete the APM Stack

With the digital landscape shifting everything on the web, and companies fighting for better user experiences, your sites and applications are no longer just a part of your business, it is the business. But how do you to go about it and remain successful? This is where monitoring and performance management comes into the picture. Not only just for business people, IT teams have also a significant role to play in business growth and revenue optimization.

Launching the new Monitive

It’s been a long journey since I decided that the current version of Monitive is just not good enough for our customers. That it doesn’t scale how it should. That its interface isn’t responsive or suitable for mobile devices. That the inner workings are not flexible enough to allow further extensions and features. All this, because it was the very first usable iteration of Monitive, crafted around 2011.