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Are you interested in learning how to monitor Nginx? In this post, we'll show you all about how Nginx works and how you can use Hosted Graphite to monitor it. First, we'll read what Nginx monitoring is all about and how it can together work with Prometheus. Nginx, pronounced like “engine-ex”, is an open-source web server that, since its initial success as a web server, is now also used as a reverse proxy, HTTP cache, and load balancer.
Switch port monitoring is one of the most crucial facets of network management. It not only provides insights into network switch port status but CPU load, memory utilization, historical port utilization, and more. Investing in switch port monitoring improves network-related performance across your organization and optimizes port usage. As a result, you'll enhance security, reduce cybercrime, optimize networks, enhance compliance, and safeguard your entire IT infrastructure.
International Internet Day (10/29) is an occasion for people to celebrate the great invention that transformed the way we live, work, and communicate. The day is an annual reminder of how far we have come since the creation of the internet and where it might take us in the future. Let us look into how the internet invaded every aspect of our daily lives and became indispensable.
Being a network admin of an enterprise network, you know better than anyone how disastrous network downtimes might be. The cost of downtime study conducted by Gartner in 2014 found that network downtime costs $5,600 per minute on an average, but this number can range from $2,300 to $9,000 per minute. With organizations moving towards sophisticated networks built on hybrid infrastructures, network downtimes are becoming more frequent and costly.
Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for cloud-based applications. As companies migrate more and more workloads, ensuring reliable connectivity and performance are critical not just for user applications but also for the cluster itself. In this article, we will discuss how augmenting your system monitoring with in-cluster synthetic testing can give you proactive indicators that something might be headed for trouble.
