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Auvik Use Case: Keep Clients Up to Date on the Value You're Providing

“What have you done for me lately?” It’s an honest question that doesn’t always have an easy answer. Fact is, you’re doing a lot of proactive work behind-the-scenes to prevent network disruptions and unnecessary downtime. But if you’re not heroically putting out fires in front of your clients, they might think they’re paying you for nothing.

Monitoring Automation with Icinga - Certificate Monitoring

In our ongoing efforts to make it easier to automate monitoring environments we recently introduced a new module for Icinga Web 2. This module is first and foremost a platform which lets you have an overview over all the certificates you are using in your environment to prove the identity of your devices. You can take a quick glance or a very detailed look at them.

Introducing Distributed Tracing with Zipkin with Logz.io

Distributed tracing has become a de-facto standard for monitoring distributed architectures, helping engineers to pinpoint errors and identify performance bottlenecks. Zipkin is one of the popular open source “tracers” available in the market, and I’m now happy to inform our users that we’ve recently introduced a new integration that allows users to easily ship trace data collected by Zipkin to Logz.io!

How PostgreSQL and Grafana Can Improve Monitoring Together

TimescaleDB is an open source database packaged as a Postgres extension that supports time series, but “it looks as if it were just Postgres,” said Timescale’s Head of Product, Diana Hsieh. “So you can actually use the entire ecosystem. You can use all of the functions that are enabled in Postgres – like JSON indexes, relational tables, post JSON – and they all work with Timescale.”

How eG Enterprise Helps Citrix Customers: 4 Best Practices to Achieve Citrix Performance Success

With the rapid evolution of Citrix and digital workspace technologies and the advent of cloud computing, Citrix performance management has become a herculean challenge for Citrix administrators. When an end-user calls in complaining of a slow application or desktop, it is extremely tedious and time-consuming for Citrix pros to figure out why it is so and what is causing that. Troubleshooting takes hours, affecting business productivity.