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CEO explains how Cove Data Protection exceeded his expectations

When Glen Buhler, CEO of Oxygen Technologies received the business case for Cove Data Protection, he could hardly believe it. He was even more shocked when his team implemented it, and exceeded his expectations. List to Glen explain how Cove Data Protection as a choice for backup is saving his company up to $250,000 a year and lots, and lots of time.

Monitoring MongoDB performance metrics (WiredTiger)

This post is part 1 of a 3-part series about monitoring MongoDB performance with the WiredTiger storage engine. Part 2 explains the different ways to collect MongoDB metrics, and Part 3 details how to monitor its performance with Datadog. If you are using the MMAPv1 storage engine, visit the companion article “Monitoring MongoDB performance metrics (MMAP)”.

Supply Chain Security Workshop

More and more attacks are aimed at the entire supply chain, which means that we developers are increasingly targeted by the attackers. Attacks like the SolarWinds hack show us that making sure you don’t use vulnerable dependencies isn’t enough. The attackers have their sights set on the entire development process with its components. In this workshop, we will look at the first steps and try them out in practice which will enable you to integrate the topic of security into your everyday life as a developer.

Go Beyond the Status Quo with Puppet Enterprise

From the largest physics laboratory in the world to a telescope network scattered across the planet to a design firm building roads and parks around the globe to an air navigation service provider that guides 1.2 million flights each year, 40,000 companies rely on Puppet to automate their infrastructure – with security and compliance baked right in. Puppet’s IT automation suite incorporates security, compliance, and innovation from day one to power Day 2 operations (and beyond), so your teams can spend less time managing IT infrastructure and more time changing the world.

Nastel XRay Release 1.5

Nastel XRay 1.5 release builds on industry analyst acclaim for leading AIOps & transaction observability vendor. Nastel Technologies, the leader in integration infrastructure management (i2M) solutions, announced today significant enhancements to its versatile AIOps and Transaction Observability solution, including machine learning for integration management, and visualization of business flows and IoT locations.

Pandora's Flask: Monitoring a Python web app with Prometheus

We eat lots of our own dog food at MetricFire, monitoring our services with a dedicated cluster running the same software. This has worked out really well for us over the years: as our own customer, we quickly spot issues in our various ingestion, storage, and rendering services. It also drives the service status transparency our customers love. Our customers include large multinational coffee brewers, game companies, and other data science/SaaS companies.

Getting started with severity levels

An incident can take many forms. It can look like a small issue that locks a few customers out of their accounts or a huge catastrophe that brings down your entire product for a full day. How you respond to the incident should vary based on the impact of the incident. And that’s where severity comes into play. Defined severity levels are crucial to any good incident management program.