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2018 Website Outages: Key Lessons from Popular Website Downtime

Now that companies depend on the cloud for access to key services and business operations, downtime has a larger impact on productivity. Uptime is just as critical to small businesses as it is to major ecommerce retailers on Black Friday. Even the public relies on various services like Alexa and email to be available throughout the day. Looking at major outages over the past year provides insight into how companies prepare to handle these events.

CloudReady Dashboards Tips & Tricks Part #3

This is the third part of a series on the CloudReady dashboards and visualizations. The first part covered basics like Overviews, Refresh, and Layout settings. The second part covered more advanced dashboard usage like layout pinning, capture and embedding. In this third part we’ll cover key widgets, their usage and settings.

Part II: Anomaly detection within monitoring: how can you get started?

In a previous post we introduced anomaly detection as a group of techniques used to identify unusual behavior that does not comply with expected data pattern. In this article we will find out how we can apply anomaly detection within monitoring.

9 Gifts for Your Stressed-Out MSP Colleagues

The sprint to the end of the year can be crazy for MSPs—new maintenance templates have to be made, calendars and expenses need to be updated in the PSA, and everyone has to mentally prepare for the in-laws to visit. Don’t let the Most Hectic Time of the Year affect your bottom line or the health of your team. These nine gadgets will help boost personal productivity, reduce stress, and eliminate distractions so you can help everyone stay focused and productive.

Tracking VueJS SPA user behaviour with Google Analytics

In the past I used to use the right tool for the right purpose. This led me to employ a lot of tools, and with most turning out to use subscription-based billing, increasing our costs much more that I would have hoped for. So, I adopted a new strategy: Use as few tools as possible, but use them as much as possible.

Handling Sensu Plugin handlers in Sensu Go

In case you missed it, Sensu Go is here! And, as I wrote about previously, one of the hurdles with migrating workloads from the original version of Sensu to Sensu Go are the changes in the internal event data structure. The existing handlers and mutators in the community maintained Sensu Plugins collection might not work as expected in Sensu Go because of these event data model changes. But friends, I’m here to tell you that we’ve got this problem licked.

Infrastructure UI for Kubernetes and Docker using Elasticsearch and Kibana

The Elastic Stack comes with powerful data visualization capabilities. Filebeat and Metricbeat modules, as well as, Elastic APM ship with pre-built Kibana dashboards that serve as a great starting point for exploring logs, metrics, and APM data in Kibana. On top of that, the Infrastructure, Logs, and APM UIs enable common workflows for correlating the data coming from different operational contexts.

NiCE VMware MP 5.00 Preview Release

Be the first to get a complete picture of the health and performance of your business critical VMware environment using the new NiCE VMware Management Pack. The NiCE VMware Management Pack delivers first-rate monitoring for business critical, highly dynamical virtualized environments. Leverage your existing investment and reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies now.