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Monthly Snap September: Icinga Meetup Salzburg, OSMC & Release Updates

Our first Icinga meetup in Salzburg, Austria is happening this week. Join fellow community members :) OSMC is near, just one month to go …. meet Jan-Piet on MQTT, Claudio as a first-time speaker on container monitoring, Nicolai with infrastructure visualization and Carsten with his “Einhornmagie” :-)

The Value of Loyalty in Word Of Mouth Marketing

People aren’t loyal to companies. They’re loyal to values, relationships, and experiences. While someone may say they’re 100% loyal to a certain brand of coffee, for instance, it is more likely that they absolutely prefer the taste of that brand compared to other brands at the store. However, if they are truly loyal to the brand and the company, then there is probably something more to that story.

Improve Heroku Geolocation Performance with the Geolite2 Buildpack

Recently, we began using IP geolocation within StatusGator to learn where are users are located. We are happy to say that it’s working out well. We hoped to use these insights to tune our marketing. To that end, we added the Ahoy gem to help collect information related to how our advertising campaigns are going. The Ahoy gem also uses the geolocation gem to lookup IP addresses. This significantly increased the number of IP geolocation lookups.

How to install a High Availability Database Cluster with Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS relies on a MySQL database for configuration and data storage. A database failure can temporarily bring your monitoring solution to a halt. The Pandora FMS high availability database cluster allows you to easily deploy a fault-tolerant, robust architecture.

Sentry's New Java Agent: Adding Context to Your Stack Traces

We’re enhancing the existing Sentry Java SDK with our new Java agent. The thing is — it’s still in beta, and we need your feedback. Once downloaded, the agent will enhance your application stack traces on Sentry by adding the names and values of local variables to each frame. Specifically, the agent provides much more detail about the current state of the application at the time of the error than you would usually have.

Key metrics for Elasticsearch performance monitoring

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable, distributed, open-source RESTful search and analytics engine that offers log analytics, real-time application monitoring, click stream analytics, and more. Elasticsearch stores and retrieves data structures in real time. It has multi-tenant capabilities with an HTTP web interface, presents data in the form of structured JSON documents, makes full-text search accessible via RESTful API, and maintains web clients for languages like PHP, Ruby, .Net, and Java.

Jenkins in a Nutshell

In many projects, the product development workflow has three main concerns: building, testing, and deployment. Each change to the code means something could accidentally go wrong, so in order to prevent this from happening developers adopt many strategies to diminish incidents and bugs. Jenkins, and other continuous integration tools (CI) are used together with a source version software (such as GIT) to test and quickly evaluate the updated code.