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Automating Monitoring & Alerting Infrastructure with Terraform

At iLert we embrace infrastructure as code and try to automate our processes whereever possible. This might reach from niftly little bash scripts to fully blown Terraform projects that spin up whole environments with as little as terraform apply on a CLI. With Hashicorp’s Terraform you can make use of infrastructure as code to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service.

Running Operations Is Hard. PagerDuty + Rundeck Are Here to Help

Rundeck has now joined forces with PagerDuty. What pulled us together? Our shared vision for improving the work lives of those who run modern digital services. As a co-founder of Rundeck, I’d like to provide my perspective on why Rundeck becoming part of the PagerDuty family is a perfect fit for our collective user communities. No matter if you are on a “you build it, you run it” DevOps team or part of a centralized Ops team—operations work has always been difficult.

Alert Fatigue | Are You a DevOps Zombie?

George Romero’s zombie classic, Dawn of the Dead, is the perfect analogy for a lot like the DevOps experience. Your cluster of services is like your Monroeville Mall. Your safe haven where you live and work for years on end, toiling away at survival. But who are the zombies? The answer isn’t always clear when you’re busy chasing down alerts at 2 AM.

How to Integrate AppDynamics with Slack

Using AppDynamics with Slack, your IT and application teams will always be one step ahead of potential issues with your applications, business transactions, internal and external dependency services, and infrastructure running on-prem and in the cloud. Many of our customers using Slack want to be able to quickly alert a Slack channel when AppDynamics detects a customer-impacting performance issue with a critical application. If you’re one of those customers, we have great news for you: the integration is now available and easy to set up.

Secure mobile Authentication with Azure Active Directory

Enterprise Alert is the premier solution for reliable, targeted, and accountable Alerting. At Derdack, we have always aimed to provide the best possible security combined with an easy to use User interface. Part of this UI is the Enterprise Alert mobile App which supports secure 2-factor authentication by integrating with ADFS.

Synthetic User Click Recorder (using Selenium & germainAPM)

Using germainAPM and Selenium, it is now - super easy- to record a Synthetic User Scenario/Click(s), run it 24x7 at a set frequency, be alerted whenever it fails ( indicating an issue on your webapp e.g. broken link, checkout issue, page not coming up, etc), automate execution of script (to self-resolve issues, etc). All this for proactive issue detection and resolution. In addition to this feature, germainAPM offers many other features (real user session recording and replay, automatic functional and technology issue detection, end-2-end analysis, resolution of issues, etc).