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Integrating AppSignal With Microsoft Teams

We’re constantly looking for interesting integrations for our performance incidents, exception incidents, anomaly detection and uptime monitoring notifications, and our latest addition is an integration for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams is a hub for team collaboration in Microsoft 365. It integrates people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective.

How to achieve acceptance testing through abstraction

Beaker is a Puppet testing harness focused on acceptance testing via interactions between multiple (virtual) machines. It provides platform abstraction between different Systems Under Test (SUTs), and it can also be used as a virtual machine provisioner setting up machines, running any commands on those machines, and then exiting. Recently, Vox Pupuli, a collective of Puppet community authors, has taken over responsibility to care and feed Beaker for its continued widespread community use.

Using AWS Timestream for System Health Monitoring

Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a preview of Timestream in November 2018 before releasing the full version in October 2020. AWS Timestream is a time series database that can process trillions of events daily. It is faster and less costly than relational databases offered by AWS for processing time-series information. In this article, we will look at what Timestream can do compared to some other AWS databases, and how to use Timestream to help monitor the health of your system.

Be ready for anything in a world of digital everything

PagerDuty is a digital operations management platform that empowers the right action, when seconds matter. With over 500 integrations and powerful automation capabilities, we make it easy to stay on top of urgent, mission-critical work and keep your digital services always on. For the developers and IT teams working in real-time operations, PagerDuty makes sure you can focus on what matters most. And stay ready for what’s next.

How to use Cloud Logging to detect security breaches

If your system's security has been breached, what can you do to stop this attack and not make the situation worse? In this episode of Cloud Security Basics, we show how you can use Cloud Operations Suite to check for security breaches. Watch to learn some best practices when dealing with and handling malicious attacks!

Crazy Like a Fox: Redis as Your Primary Database

Redis is fast. It’s fast because the data is all in memory. Persistence options are limited. Because of this, many people say, “Redis is for transient data only!” However, sometimes the need for speed and ease of operations can outweigh the durability downsides! In this talk, we look at a real SaaS business using Redis as its (only) datastore. You’ll learn why we decided to go all-in on Redis and the challenges we faced. You’ll learn how we operationalized the setup, handle backups and restores, and how we’ll scale out. Are we making a terrible mistake? You be the judge!

Monitoring and Tuning Open-Source Databases

By continuously running a well-built general-purpose database performance monitoring facility, organizations can gain constant visibility into the availability and responsiveness of their databases and database management systems (DBMSs). When such a tool is equipped with analytics to compare historical metrics against current values, administrators can immediately understand how current values and behaviors stack up against prior averages and typical baselines.

Do You Know Where Your Cloud Is? Understanding Shadow IT

The public cloud has greatly increased the flexibility of businesses everywhere. Need another petabyte of storage? You’re but a few mouse clicks or a couple lines of code away from allocating all those disks with effectively no lead time. At the same time, it makes it easy for business units, a functional organization, or a disgruntled vice president with a corporate card—who may be frustrated with your IT for various reasons.