Grafana presents some of the most versatile tools for visualizing and understanding the real-time performance and reliability of systems, regardless of where your data lives. But one question our customers frequently ask is, “Can I use Grafana to understand the health and performance of my business?” More often than not, our answer is yes.
LogicMonitor currently provides a solution for monitoring groups of nodes with the same functionality, which we call services. With companies moving towards more auto-scalable and transient architecture, LogicMonitor is able to continually monitor these services, which are always changing. We also needed a way of determining if these nodes are being used effectively. It can become an unnecessary cost if there are multiple underutilized nodes.
Confidently testing in production is crucial for engineers to deliver software quickly. In this blog, we’ll discuss what our team at CircleCI has learned while changing our critical systems.
Software engineering teams have always looked for ways to increase code creation efficiency, reduce code vulnerabilities, and improve security processes. Many are now shifting security left, establishing security controls and testing — specifically integration testing — at an earlier phase in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Have you established a business automation workflow? If you’re committed to running an efficient operation that fires on all cylinders, you should be embracing automation at every level of your workflow. Automation is no longer the future - it’s here now. Failing to make use of workflow automation tools will leave your business running at a disadvantage. The inefficiencies of not utilizing a business automation workflow are costing organizations 20-30% of their annual revenue.
Every developer knows there are some utilities that are completely indispensable from their workflows. The programmer’s toolbelt, if you will. These toolbelts are usually different from person to person, but if there is one tool that everyone should use or at least know how to use, it is tcpdump. If you are unfamiliar, tcpdump is a tool that allows you to dump and inspect live network traffic being observed on a network interface.
In around 2003 I worked as a level one tech for a very large customer contact center (1,500 call center agents) for a major American hardware vendor. This was around the height of adware and other greyware hitting Windows XP.
The short answer? Right about now would be a good time to flip the switch if you’re still using a rigid and outdated legacy ITSM tool! Legacy ITSM tools are not built for the intermittent changes the world throws at us. The lack of performance and efficiency in legacy ITSM tools restricts organizations from keeping up with technology changes and growing the business.
Sometimes the best way to understand something is to take it apart and see how it works. This blog post will help you take the lid off your Calico eBPF data plane based Kubernetes cluster and see how the forwarding is actually happening. The bonus is, unlike home repairs, you don’t even have to try to figure out how to put it back together again! The target audience for this post is users who are already running a cluster with the eBPF data plane, either as a proof-of-concept or in production.
