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How MetricFire Can Help Monitor IoT Devices Using Telegraf and Mosquito

The growing popularity of IoT devices has revolutionized the way we interact with technology. From smart homes to industrial automation, these devices have become an integral part of our lives. However, managing and monitoring a large fleet of IoT devices can be a daunting task. With the sheer volume of data being generated by these devices, it becomes crucial to have a robust monitoring system in place.

Collectd Plugins

Collectd is a data collection software that allows you to fetch metrics from a machine being monitored locally and push them to Graphite. Everything is done by plugins. The collectd plugins can collect metrics on CPU, memory, Postgres, JVM, and many more metrics. Plugins can also be used to push these metrics to Graphite, aggregate data, send alerts, and send notifications to email.

The Future of Configuration Management Software is Policy Enforcement

The old way we’ve thought about configuration management software has passed — we need a new perspective that takes into account the importance of policy enforcement. Let’s dig deeper into what this means for DevOps, your overall security and compliance strategy, and IT.

Komodor Announces the Availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service [Amazon EKS] Blueprints as an Add-On

We’re pleased to announce that the Komodor platform has published an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Blueprints CDK Add-On. Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that streamlines the deployment and scaling of cloud-based or on-prem K8s clusters.

Checkly Was Recognized In Two 2023 Gartner® Hype Cycle Reports For Monitoring as Code

Checkly Is Innovating the Future of DevOps With a Monitoring as Code (MaC) Workflow Including a Ground-Breaking Command Line Interface. Checkly today announced it was recognized for (MaC) in two Gartner Hype Cycle reports: Hype Cycle for Monitoring and Observability, July 10, 2023 and Hype Cycle for Site Reliability Engineering, July 17, 2023. We believe this acknowledgment underscores Checkly's commitment to innovation and its leadership role in the MaC movement.

Understanding The Cloud Options Available To Your Business

Businesses in all sectors of industry and commerce have undergone some dramatic changes in the last few decades. One of the key changes has been the move to the digitalization of the modern workplace. Previously, storing and retrieving physical documents, data and information were common practice. Today, this is considered to be incredibly outdated in most organizations and almost all important pieces of data and information are now held in the digital domain.

Using An Infrastructure Monitoring Dashboard

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.

Why and how to use Rust on Ubuntu

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.