Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In today’s fast-paced business world, an issue with your network or servers, can certainly create serious problems, which is why having a reliable monitoring software in place is essential. The team from Pandora FMS has been helping businesses for years to improve efficiency and keep their IT resources running smoothly, which is why they’ve gathered some tips before you below. Here are eight tips for choosing the best monitoring software.

The official Go client for Elasticsearch is one of the latest additions to the family of clients developed, maintained, and supported by Elastic. The initial version was published early in 2019 and has matured over the past year, gaining features such as retrying requests, discovering cluster nodes, and various helper components. We also provide comprehensive examples to facilitate using the client.

An incident management process is a set of procedures and actions taken to respond to and resolve critical incidents: how incidents are detected and communicated, who is responsible, what tools are used, and what steps are taken to resolve the incident. Incident management processes are used across many industries, and incidents can include anything from IT system failure, to events requiring the attention of healthcare professionals, to critical maintenance of physical infrastructure.

SEO is a very important aspect of the digital marketing strategy for a business website or a blog. With that being said, precaution needs to be taken when implementing this marketing strategy and you should have a reliable tool to gauge the performance of your SEO strategy. With plenty of tools and services on the market, it is often overwhelming for SEO professionals and digital marketers to choose the best. Sitechecker is a known-name and many SEO professionals recommend it.

There is nothing more frustrating for IT Professionals than having to go to multiple places and sometimes into multiple systems to track down an issue. Yes, it is the job, but with Enterprise Alert, we provide a single pane of glass that contains all events, policies, and alert notifications in one place. The next question we asked is, “Is all of the relevant data easily accessible, and can it be viewed from one central screen”?

As a former ‘customer side’ telecom professional, I’m in the fortunate position of having regular and open discussions with CEOs and CIOs across the industry. We talk about the issues and challenges facing the telecom industry and the exciting opportunities for change and growth. Not surprisingly, a major topic among us in recent months has been the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons learned from this period.

We are excited to partner with AWS in launching AWS Bottlerocket, a container optimized operating system. Bottlerocket gives DevOps teams speed, efficiency and security in containerized environments.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we highlight the urgent need for ethical AI due to increased adoption of AI enabled technologies by businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Kubernetes versions are released multiple times per year, and you must upgrade your EKS cluster periodically to stay up to date. In this blog post we will go over the steps required to safely upgrade your production EKS cluster managed by Terraform. At Blue Matador, we use Terraform to manage most of our AWS infrastructure, and our EKS cluster is no exception. We use the eks module, which provides a lot of functionality for managing your EKS cluster and worker nodes.

This is it! This is the project you’ve been waiting for. The one that’s going to define your career and challenge you and totally transform “the way things are done around here.” The project your team will point to five years from now as the inflection point that ushered in a new era of awesome. If, that is, you can get the project approved, prioritized, and properly resourced.