Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

What if You Could Autonomously Monitor Across Your Databases?

When DevOps teams talk about monitoring a database, the primary motivation is to ensure that the database won’t suffer a performance hiccup. Long queries, timeouts and table scans are among the most popular causes behind lousy customer experience. However, in recent years, more data has been shifted to cloud databases.

Predictive Analytics Use Cases In The Retail Industry

In an expanded and commercial industry space new and innovative opportunities are presented to retail organizations from several novel sources of data, log files, and from transaction information to sensor data to achieve unmatched value and combative advantage in their respective fields. In order to attain customer satisfaction and to flourish their business, people across the organization must be empowered, so that swift and accurate decisions can be attained.

Logback Configuration Example: Tutorial on How to Use It for Logging in Java

Troubleshooting issues in your applications can be a complicated task requiring visibility into various components. In the worst-case scenario, to understand what is happening and why it is happening you will need metrics, logs, and traces combined together. Having that information will give you the possibility to slice and dice the data and get to the root cause efficiently. In this article, we will focus on logs and how to configure logging for your Java applications.

Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 5 [Monetization]

In our previous blog post, Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 2 [Authentication], you learned that when you operate HAProxy as an API gateway, you can restrict access to your APIs to only clients that present a valid OAuth 2 access token. In this post, we take it a step further. You will learn how to leverage tokens to grant some users more access than others and then charge for the service.

Looking Back as We Move Forward: A Pandemic Journey

Until recently, work has been thought of as a place you go, rather than a thing you do. While cloud technology has made a ‘digital workplace’ possible, for many businesses, this has been a long-term ambition. But what happens when this changes overnight? Suddenly more people are at home than in the office, and the typical 9-5 model doesn’t apply anymore. This is the reality that businesses the world over had to face head-on a year ago when the pandemic hit.

Skylight 5: Now with Source Locations!

This week we released Skylight version 5.0, which represents a major undertaking that has involved every person at Tilde and every part of our ever-growing stack. In addition to major internal refactors, this release also modernizes our native Rust code, and introduces Skylight's newest feature, Source Locations.

The Big SCOM Survey: Results and expert analysis

What’s the future of SCOM? How do others set up their SCOM landscape? What tools are SCOM Managers using to help streamline processes? The answers are all here. The Big SCOM Survey 2021 is the first of what we hope to be an annual survey where we measure the pulse of the SCOM community, get insights and share best practices. This year, we asked 27 questions and had 118 respondents – and we’d like to share our findings with you.

SLF4J Tutorial: Example of How to Configure It for Logging Java Applications

Logging is a crucial part of the observability of your Java applications. Combined with metrics and traces gives full observability into the application behavior and is invaluable when troubleshooting. Logs, combined with metrics shortens the time needed to find the root cause and allows for quick and efficient resolutions of problems.