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In this blog, we compare Instana and Sysdig - two popular monitoring tools which claim to show APM metrics without need to instrument code.

In this blog, I will discuss about how to set up Prometheus and Grafana in EKS and how to monitor Python based applications using Prometheus.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we delve into the increasing adoption of XaaS models across enterprises to achieve agility, pervasive automation, and digitization of business verticals.

If you run Microsoft’s Hyper-V as your virtualisation platform rather than the ever popular VMware ESX then you probably want a way to manage your Hyper-V hosts as well as the virtual machines that reside on this. Well you can do a lot of the functions that SCVMM does with the free tool for managing Hyper-V, the Hyper-V Manager (which comes as part of the Windows Operating System). System Centre Virtual Machine Manager is also called System Centre VMM or SCVMM for short.

Monitoring and optimizing enterprise infrastructure is a complex undertaking with mission-critical workloads running across physical, virtual, container, and serverless resources. Agent-based monitoring delivers holistic control, rapid root cause(s) diagnostics, contextual alerting, and automated remediation for multi-generational infrastructure.

They say that a job isn’t the best way to earn the most money and to become financially stable. If you want to be more financially stable, then the best way to do that is to start a business. Nowadays, there are a lot of ideas and potential businesses that you can start. One of these types of businesses is starting an online store. No matter what type of product you are selling, so long as you have a specific niche, then you are sure to find a customer that fits your target profile.

As you’re juggling deployments, writing code, and attending meetings there’s not a great deal of time left for staying up to date with the latest trends in tech. The culture around performance is getting stronger — performance is absolutely a feature, yet the pressure is on to deliver more without sacrificing quality. The good news is that there are companies who have achieved their performance goals — and more.

The sports market has suffered a host of cybersecurity problems from FC Barcelona Twitter account being hijacked to the FIFA data breach. Now Magecart are taking advantage of cybersecurity patches. We discuss the latest Magecart victims and the reasons why so many sports websites fall under attack.

Today we are releasing Grafana 5.4.5 and 6.3.4. These patch releases include an important security fix that affects all Grafana versions between 2.0.0 and 6.3.3.