As businesses embrace more cloud-native technologies and IT infrastructure becomes more dispersed, they must connect their business goals and end-user experience with the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure. This change necessitates infrastructure monitoring to assure compatibility with cloud environments, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualized systems, and other components.

Today, in those much needed training videos, we will delve into the exciting and mysterious universe of basic monitoring of computers with Linux operating systems. Ready to unlock the hidden secrets of your devices? Well, let’s go! Before you dive into this adventure, make sure you have Pandora FMS environment installed and running. Done? Well, now we will focus on how to monitor those Linux computers that allow you to install the software agent devoted to this operating system.

As businesses increasingly migrate to the cloud, the ability to monitor these environments becomes critically important. Digital Ocean is a popular choice for developers due to its simplicity and scalability. However, effectively monitoring resources and applications within Digital Ocean can pose unique challenges. Hosted Graphite and Telegraf provide powerful solutions for these challenges, allowing users to visualize data, track system metrics in real time, and troubleshoot issues quickly.

In this article, we’ll cover our newest feature- Microsoft Teams notifications! We’ll walk you through how to set it up, and we’ll take a look at why we are constantly making the MetricFire experience better.

With the latest suite of integrations between Megaport and Oracle Cloud, boosting performance and reducing costs across your cloud suite is easier than ever.

One of the most exciting implementations to come out of Apache Spark™ on Kubernetes is the dynamic creation, mounting, and remounting of a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) within a Spark application. We’ve spoken previously about how PVCs can be used to recover shuffle data and prevent application failure after a spot kill has occurred, negating one of the biggest drawbacks of spot instance usage in Spark workloads.

More than three decades have passed since Stephen R. Covey made the world highly effective. His 1989 bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, inspired just about everyone. How could anyone pass up the chance to become highly effective by adopting just seven new habits!?

Rust has been the language most loved by developers for the last 8 years and it is seeing increased adoption by software companies of all sizes. However, its many high-level rules and abstractions create a steep initial learning curve which can leave the impression that Rust is the preserve of a select few but this couldn’t be any further from the truth. Let’s examine why Rust is often a great choice and take a look at how to get started with it on Ubuntu.

One day a few years ago, Sushil Kumar, our head of DevOps, was worried. A key admin on his team in charge of private and public cloud infrastructure had just given notice that he was leaving in two weeks. Even after scheduling a knowledge transfer session to other team admins, Kumar saw that their operations would be at risk. And he was right. Kumar and his team spent the next 18 months dealing with the fallout.