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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.”

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.

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.

Five worthy reads: Agile, the perfect ingredient for your organization's operations management

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore how the agile philosophy can help organizations manage their operations.

Container Orchestration in 2019

How are you deploying your applications in 2019? Are you using containers yet? According to recent research over 80% of you are. If you are within this group, were you initially sold on the idea of containers but found that in reality, the complexity involved with this approach makes it a difficult trade-off to justify? The community is aware of this and has come up with a remedy to ease the pain, and it’s called container orchestration.