Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Running your software on dynamic infrastructure means that your monitoring platform needs to change dynamically. Variables let you reuse a single dashboard for all your services. Select the service you want to inspect from a drop-down menu, and watch panels update to only show you metrics from that service. Grafana lets you create dynamic dashboards using template variables. Any variables in your queries interpolate the current value of the variable before the query is sent to the database.

Have you ever lost power to a server? Did it ever reboot on its own? Wouldn’t it be nice to prevent power outage to IT devices? If this is something you’ve experienced in the past, there are ways to simplify power monitoring and avoid some of the outages that can be caused by power issues. This article will focus on using power consumption data from a rack power distribution unit (rPDU) and how to simplify the process.

Technology touches almost every corner of the world economy. Even when it’s an indirect relation, in many cases tech is an essential, vital part of our societies. It just can’t fail without causing too much distress and losses. Not only financially, but especially to the human aspect.

When a customer notifies you that your website is down, it has far more severe consequences than just embarrassment. Website downtime can mean loss of money, reputation, credibility and in a lot of cases, the overall feeling of security of your customers. As a survey report from Gartner showed website downtime can cost nearly $5,600 per minute to some companies. So, what are the issues that can cause website downtime, and how can you prevent it?

Every evolution in technology starts with the people behind it. So understanding the context, roles, and objectives that gave rise to DevOps — and now DevSecOps — isn’t just an exploration of timing and technology; it’s central to how we define organizational success. In this post, I’ll recap a conversation I had with Gareth Rushgrove, Director of Product Management at Snyk, a cybersecurity platform that helps developers identify vulnerabilities in their applications.

Are you currently using Flux with InfluxDB? Have you written a great Flux function that would be useful to the community? If the answers to these questions are “Yes!”, then I encourage you to contribute your awesome work to Flux, so that others can appreciate you and your work. Today, we’re sharing how you can contribute a custom Flux function in a Third Party Flux Package.