Typically when tuning SCOM we talk about saving time and reducing alert noise, but today I’m going to make a quick post on saving database space through tuning. If you’d like to get an idea of what your current database usage is, take a look at this tool from scom2k7.com. This will give you a breakdown of where space is used in the SCOM Data Warehouse.
The most common problems and outages in a Kubernetes cluster come from coreDNS, so learning how to monitor coreDNS is crucial. Imagine that your frontend application suddenly goes down. After some time investigating, you discover it’s not resolving the backend endpoint because the DNS keeps returning 500 error codes. The sooner you can get to this conclusion, the faster you can recover your application.
Organizations today use a wide range of apps and services as part of their IT infrastructure. This includes a combination of private and public clouds, third-party apps, security services, databases, and so on. With such a complex infrastructure in place, organizations face the challenge of monitoring the uptime of all these services to ensure continuous business availability.
When Mattermost first started, it didn’t make sense for us to have an office; it was just myself and one other person. They were writing code the whole time, and I was on the phone the whole time, and being in the office we ended up interrupting each other. So eventually we started working from our homes and only got together when we needed to catch up.
Today’s tech tip is focused on one of Catchpoint’s web tools that deserves attention: the Catchpoint Recorder. What is the Catchpoint Recorder? It’s a Selenium-based Chrome extension that allows you to capture, automate, and replay multi-step transactions. Monitoring multi-step transactions as well as single pages is essential to identifying problems and detecting site-wide outages.
Do you know how much it costs to operate your software per customer, at each pricing tier? The past six months have been highly unusual to say the least. For some companies, the disruption and shift to work from home meant 100x in usage almost overnight; for others usage completely collapsed in the same time period. These sharp swings in utilization have been disruptive to cloud unit economics. Both scenarios are risky and require extreme elasticity from the technical infrastructure.
Elastic on Azure gives you the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, Elastic Security as well as the Elastic Stack. You can quickly and easily search your environment for information, analyze data to observe insights, and protect your technology investment. Elastic Cloud lets you deploy your way, whether as a managed service, or with orchestration tools you manage in Azure. You can easily get started with Elastic Cloud on Azure through our listing page on the Azure Marketplace.
Welcome back once again! This is the third and final part of this series on using the Elastic Stack with ServiceNow for incident management. In the first blog, we introduced the project and set up ServiceNow so changes to an incident are automatically pushed back to Elasticsearch. In the second blog, we implemented the logic to glue ServiceNow and Elasticsearch together through alerts and transforms as well as some general Elasticsearch configuration.
