There is a moment in every company when 24x7 support is needed. Congrats! The next step is to start building an on-call team. In this article, we'll go through some of the aspects you should consider. We'll keep it small and, in a future article, go deep into each step.
Victoria University is a world-renowned educational institution based in Melbourne, Australia. The public research university has several campuses comprised of six academic colleges, six research institutes, seven research centers, and a polytechnic institution. It provides courses in higher education and technical training. The IT staff at Victoria University chose OpManager to monitor its IT infrastructure and enhance its network performance.
Everyone loves automation, and it can be easy to assume that the more you automate, the better. Indeed, falling short of achieving fully autonomous processes can feel like a defeat. If you don't automate completely, you're the one falling behind, right? Well, not exactly. Although automation is, in general, a good thing, there is such a thing as too much automation. And blindly striving to automate everything under the sun is not necessarily the best strategy. Instead, you should be strategic about what you do and don't automate.
Today we will look at monitoring Hashicorp’s Nomad platform using a combination of Prometheus and Grafana. But first, a quick recap of all 3 tools.
In today's complex, multi-cloud environments, IT and engineering teams are under increasing pressure to respond to errors affecting their entire system. Therefore, IT operations, DevOps, and SRE teams are all striving to gain complete observability across these increasingly complex and diverse computing environments. But what exactly does observability mean?
The world is getting back to normal… I attended my first conference after three years of almost no travel and Gartner did not disappoint. The Gartner IT Symposium//Xpo™* drew thousands of attendees to Orlando, Florida from around the globe and I think everyone was as excited (and - a bit - nervous) as I was to be back together again. As Gartner does annually, they identified Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023.
