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Carrier reduced MTTR and gained visibility across multiple IT environments

Hear Rich Johnston, Director of Hosting Platforms, describe Carrier’s observability goals to create a unified view of their IT environment for predictive monitoring. Rich describes Carrier’s desire to see issues before customer complaints, and how LogicMonitor implemented extensive visibility on a single platform, including multiple cloud platforms, networking, compute, storage, and more. LogicMonitor helped Carrier quickly and easily deploy dashboards to see how their technology performed, while reducing root cause analysis and shortening resolution time.

From Monitoring to Action - Get Faster Incident Response with Change Forensics

In this post you’ll learn how Kosli’s Change Forensics gives DevOps, Platform, and Site Reliability Engineers the ability to rapidly pinpoint and understand changes and events in their infrastructure and applications, and get to the cause(s) of an incident quickly.

Meet Elemental: Cloud Native OS Management in Kubernetes

Wouldn’t it be great if Rancher could provision and manage not only Kubernetes clusters but also the OS running on the cluster nodes? This is the goal we had in mind when we started working on Elemental. Elemental adds to Rancher the ability to install and manage a minimal OS based on SUSE Linux Enterprise technology, delivered and managed in a fully cloud native way. This simplifies the infrastructure (you only need a container registry) and day 2 operations.

Qovery Demo Day Summary - June 2023

Join us for a recap of the latest updates from Qovery Demo Day, held on June 29th, 2023! Our event provides insight into what we accomplished in the past month and what's to come while showcasing some exciting new features with a special guest: Hamza, Senior Solution Engineer at Doppler. From our new deployment and audit logs to parallelize build and deployment and demos, get ready for an exciting look at what's new with Qovery and what’s next! ✨

Docker Compose Logs: Guide & Best Practices

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. It allows developers to streamline the process of configuring, building, and running multiple containers as a single unit with a docker-compose.yml. This configuration file specifies the services, networks, and volumes required for an application, and their relationships and dependencies. The docker-compose logs command displays the logs of all services defined in the docker-compose.yml file.

Redcentric gained flexible monitoring capabilities across multiple cloud environments

Hear Paul Mardling, Chief Technology Officer, and Ed Jackson, OSS Manager, describe Redcentric’s complex hybrid infrastructure and their difficulties with monitoring tool sprawl when their cloud deployments expanded. Redcentric used LogicMonitor to gain flexible monitoring capabilities across multiple cloud environments to keep up with developer needs. Out-of-the-box data sources and fast, agentless monitoring helped them see everything across thousands of devices in their IT estate, with excellent customer support to help at a moment’s notice.

How Schneider Electric reduced MTTI and alert noise by consolidating monitoring tools

Hear Observability and Monitoring Strategist, Arun Mandayam, describe challenges that Schneider Electric faced around data interpretation and difficulties when using multiple monitoring tools. Arun describes how LogicMonitor helped consolidate monitoring tools, enabled them to onboard new cloud accounts, network devices, and on-prem systems on a unified platform, and helped significantly reduce MTTI and alert noise.

Patch management automation: Is it worth the hype?

Patch management is a term that’s familiar to all within the depths and boundaries of endpoint security. While the addition of “automation” to this term might make it seem like one among the thousands of other automated tasks, cybersecurity experts have been going gung ho over it in the last few years. If you’re reading this, it probably doesn’t make sense to explain to you what patch management automation or automated patch management is.

Blackfire is now even closer to home!

As you probably already know, Blackfire and Upsun joined forces back in June 2021. And since then our collective teams have been working together to provide a seamless integration for a complete Git workflow and Observability solution. Blackfire was already part of the Upsun product experience for Enterprise and Elite users for quite some time now thanks to the Upsun Observability suite.

Synchronizing mental models

In the heat of an incident, having a clear and shared understanding of what’s going on is absolutely crucial to effective response. But often what actually happens is that people involved in incidents build their own picture and narrative of the event, shaped by their own expertise, their past experiences, and what they’re seeing and hearing as the incident develops. The pictures and perspective people build is often referred to as a mental model.