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5 Things Only Experts Know About Server Monitoring

Server monitoring is a valuable tool when it is set up and configured correctly. With a server monitoring service, there are several things you can do if you have the right knowledge. Obtaining that knowledge is easy when you have experts in your employee or on contract. For others, access to experts is not as easy to come by.

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips - Monitoring Tasks and Finding the Source of Runaway Cardinality

So you’re using InfluxDB Cloud, and you’re writing millions of metrics to your account. You’re also running a variety of downsampling and data transformation tasks. Whether you’re building an IoT application on top of InfluxDB or monitoring your production environment with InfluxDB, your time series operations are finally running smoothly. You want to keep it that way.

Discover InfluxDB on the Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public (Amazon ECR Public)

We are excited to partner with AWS and announce the availability of InfluxDB on the new Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public announced this week at AWS re:Invent. With this new registry, developers can now find their favorite open source products from within the AWS developer experience. At InfluxData, we believe it is important to bring our product — InfluxDB — to the platforms and ecosystems where our developers are building. And of course, many of our developers are building on AWS.

Something Else To Be Thankful For: Splunk Security Essentials 3.2.2

Well, it’s been a while since you read a blog dedicated to the latest release – okay, the latest several releases – of Splunk Security Essentials (SSE). We have been busy behind the scenes, however, so let’s catch you up on SSE’s latest features, which include the new version of our content API, and externally with updates from MITRE and the release of ATT&CK v7.2 (with Sub-Techniques) and ATT&CK v8.

Virtana Platform Demo Launch

The Virtana Platform’s embedded intelligence leverages machine learning and advanced data analytics to provide you with a deep understanding of application workloads so you can make data-driven decisions about their cloud migration. The platform is cloud agnostic so you can unify workload migration, optimization, and management across all the leading public cloud providers to meet your workload performance and cost requirements.

Building a Multi-tenant Ruby on Rails App With Subdomains

According to a definition of multitenancy, when an app serves multiple tenants, it means that there are a few groups of users who share common access to the software instance. An excellent example of an app that supports multitenancy is the Jira platform, where each company has its subdomain to access the software, for example, mycompany.atlassian.net.

Setting up IT budget for 2021

The global COVID-19 pandemic crisis has proved to be a catalyst for change for organizations. Businesses have been spurred to continue investing more in IT budget to secure and support their remote workforce operations in spite of slow revenue growth due to the pandemic. According to a survey of more than 1,000 businesses by Spiceworks Ziff Davis, 76 percent of them plan on implementing long-term IT changes in their IT budget and 44 percent plan on accelerating their digital transformation plans.

Netdata and StackPulse: Per-second metrics meet automated remediation

Teams of all types use Netdata to monitor the health of their nodes with preconfigured alarms and real-time interactive visualizations, and when incidents happen, they troubleshoot issues with thousands of per-second metrics on Netdata Cloud. But based on the complexity of the team and the infrastructure they monitor, some parts of their incident management, such as pre-planned communication and escalation processes, or even automated remediation, need to happen outside of the Netdata ecosystem.