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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Heat monitoring system: Heat maps with Pandora FMS

One of the great pleasures of life, next to sunbathing parallel to a swimming pool, walking along the beach at sunset or eating chocolate in all its aspects, is the fact that we can relate, in this blog, elements of science fiction with elements that we can count on today in real life and that no one seems to have noticed. That’s why today, in “Pandora FMS News“, we’ll talk about temperature monitoring, something that’s already available to everyone.

Generating Jaeger gRPC services and using Jaeger in JUnit with Testcontainers

In this article you will learn how to generate Jaeger model classes and gRPC services from protobuf definitions. The generated code can be used to write integrations or it can be used in tests to query tracing data from Jaeger-query service. This is the use case we are going to look at in more detail.

What Is SDLC? Understand the Software Development Life Cycle

The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) refers to a methodology with clearly defined processes for creating high-quality software. in detail, the SDLC methodology focuses on the following phases of software development: This article will explain how SDLC works, dive deeper in each of the phases, and provide you with examples to get a better understanding of each phase.

InfluxDB is Now Available in Google Cloud Marketplace

In February, we announced the general availability of InfluxDB on Google Cloud, as well as a rich set of integrations that allow you to use our time series data platform to monitor your Google Cloud services, store sensor data from Google IoT core, and send your time series data to Pub/Sub for analysis on Google AI Platform.

The COVID-19 Crisis and the need for Citrix XenApp 6.5 Monitoring!

The COVID-19 crisis has put organizations in a position where 100% of employees need to work remotely from their homes. Popular technologies used for supporting remote employees include Citrix virtual application and desktops, virtual desktop technologies based on VMware Horizon, cloud-hosted desktops (DaaS), or just VPN connectivity. Until now, remote access from home was something a small percentage of employees used.

Honeycomb at OSU Libraries & Press

This is a guest post by Ryan Ordway, DevOps Engineer at Oregon State University. At Oregon State University Libraries & Press (OSULP) we have been using Honeycomb for about 18 months. We were in the beginnings of automating our infrastructure and needed an APM solution that we could scale with. New Relic was becoming too expensive, and we couldn’t afford to monitor our whole infrastructure and trace all of our applications anymore. Thus began our Observability journey.

Topology Maps: Connecting the Dots for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

In this article, learn: Given that enterprises use a mix of physical, virtual, and cloud native infrastructure, it can be a struggle to maintain the availability and performance of digital services. OpsRamp's Topology Explorer delivers visual representations of dependency relationships between application components and hybrid infrastructure that feed into both service maps and service-centric AIOps.

How IT Pros Will Help the World Come Out Stronger After COVID-19

In 2016, we wrote about the exponential value of computer networks and the importance of IT professionals as champions of the network, “doing their part to secure, maintain, and advance the engines that keep everything running.” Today, those words ring true in ways we could never have predicted four years ago.