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Tuning to save resources

Typically when tuning SCOM we talk about saving time and reducing alert noise, but today I’m going to make a quick post on saving database space through tuning. If you’d like to get an idea of what your current database usage is, take a look at this tool from scom2k7.com. This will give you a breakdown of where space is used in the SCOM Data Warehouse.

LogicMonitor Recognized as a Strong Performer in Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations

As our CEO Kevin McGibben stated during LogicMonitor’s Level Up virtual customer conference last month, “LogicMonitor is well on its way to becoming a unified IT observability platform.” As of this morning, we are one step closer to fulfilling our product vision of becoming the most comprehensive, extensible, and intelligent monitoring platform in the world.

How to monitor coreDNS

The most common problems and outages in a Kubernetes cluster come from coreDNS, so learning how to monitor coreDNS is crucial. Imagine that your frontend application suddenly goes down. After some time investigating, you discover it’s not resolving the backend endpoint because the DNS keeps returning 500 error codes. The sooner you can get to this conclusion, the faster you can recover your application.

KMC - Observing and Optimizing Your Rancher Env (with Datadog)

Kubernetes has exploded in popularity due to its versatility, ease of use, and powerful autoscaling abilities. With Rancher, teams can seamlessly manage their Kubernetes and cloud-native workloads. Getting observability into such a dynamic technology, however, remains challenging.