Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

At times, directing projects in multiple locales from a desktop or laptop feels like conducting an orchestra in the dark. Coordinating with diverse, remote teams of developers producing software on an agile schedule of continual updates and releases can be especially nerve-wracking. At Sleuth, we’re crushing the remote-work challenge because, in 20 years of managing from afar, we’ve learned a thing or two — actually three — about how to do it right.

Developers at Airbnb, BBC, Netflix, and Nike all share something in common: They’re using serverless computing to ship new products and features faster than ever. And they represent a growing trend. As businesses compete to quickly deliver customer value, a whopping 60% of enterprises have already adopted, or are planning to use, serverless architectures.

HashiCorp’s Terraform has emerged as a powerful tool for managing infrastructure as code. Teams can fully describe an application’s infrastructure needs such as physical machines, VMs, containers and more using configuration files. This allows the application infrastructure to be version controlled, reducing human errors during deployments.

Companies are facing major difficulties as a result of the challenges posed by COVID-19, and many professionals cite automation as a key solution to business survival. However, when considering using automation to transform your service management, you need to consider how you leverage Cherwell Service Requests in partnership with automation to achieve the “holy grail” of service request automation.

The biggest challenge in this regard is that a lot of the infrastructure comes from different manufacturers. While these manufacturers provide solid solutions for monitoring their hardware, it can be very difficult to oversee the monitoring of all hardware. A hardware monitoring software with an integrated console can monitor all the hardware in the server ecosystem. Hardware monitoring should be an integral part of managing a server and infrastructure.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is playing an increasingly pivotal role in supporting hybrid-cloud, DevOps environments, where Dev teams need to release updates fast and Ops need to avoid errors and failures in production. Powered by integrations to monitoring, orchestration, provisioning and ITSM tools, Interlink’s SRE solution brings improved understanding of where threats to the health of your IT services might lurk within DevOps workflows.

In recent times, Prometheus has become the standard for application monitoring in the tech space. But what exactly is Prometheus? Over the course of this article, we’ll touch on various subtopics to help answer this question, ranging from where it all started, to its architecture and how exactly it does monitoring. We'll address the various possible integrations/tools that can be used alongside Prometheus, and why Prometheus is a great tool for monitoring these platforms and applications.