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The More You Monitor - What is Observability?

Are you embracing the key tenets of Observability in your IT infrastructure management? In this episode of The More You Monitor we’ll unpack the foundational elements of Observability and how enacting this concept can ensure high availability and pre-empt business problems. For more tips and resources check out: Or, e-mail us @ marketing@logicmonitor.com

Deploy Kubernetes Clusters on Microsoft Azure with Rancher

If you’re in enterprise IT, you’ve probably already looked into Microsoft’s Azure public cloud. Microsoft Azure offers excellent enterprise-grade features and tightly integrates with Office 365 and Active Directory. It also provides a managed Kubernetes service, AKS, that you can provision from the Azure portal.

Episode 16: Using Redis for Distributed Sessions in ASP.NET Core

We need distributed session. Spoiler: We DON'T roll it ourselves. In-memory sessions stop working as soon as there is more than one server. Most production environments have more than one server so the session issue needs to be dealt with. There are two options for sessions in a web farm. First, a load balancer can be used to lock each user on a specific box. This lets us continue to use in-memory sessions. The second is switching from in-memory to distributed session storage.

All about emojis

In person, you can easily tell someone’s mood based on their body language and how they speak, but that’s much more difficult with text alone. Emojis are a great way to add tone to a piece of text and also help make text-based conversation feel more casual, relaxed, and fun. Thanks to emojis, we can chat with much more real emotion than you might get by being careful about your word choice or by including just the right number of exclamation marks and periods at the end of a sentence.

5 Reasons You Should Start Analyzing Your Logs

In IT environments, all software applications and systems produce logs with varying levels of details or context about different events. These log files are automatically generated, and you can see them as a time-stamped record of events. Traditionally, organizations maintained logs locally or in a self-hosted setup. This was done primarily to meet various compliance mandates.

Pairing Atlassian and Artifactory for 360-Degree DevOps

In agile development, planning, coding, and builds are an ongoing loop. But when a circle is broken, you can’t travel it at full speed. For users of Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Jira, JFrog’s integrations can help Artifactory bridge the gaps for continuous velocity. In a previous blog post, we discussed how to provide Jira information as a critical “why” in your build information.