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When it comes to monitoring your Elixir application, it's challenging to make sense of the many metrics and statistics that you can read from the internals of the Erlang virtual machine. In this post, we'll be looking at the scheduler utilization metric in order to understand what it is, why we should monitor it, and how to monitor it.

In collaboration with the AWS team, we have recently released the new Athena data source plugin for Grafana. Athena is an interactive serverless service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena supports a wide variety of data formats including CSV, JSON, ORC, Arvo, and Parquet. Athena also integrates with AWS Glue Data Catalog, which allows you to create tables and query data based on a central metadata store of many AWS services, such as CloudFront, ELB, and more.

Many organizations aspire to a world where everything is in the cloud. But, in reality most IT enterprises still rely on traditional on-prem monitoring technologies. As a market-leading monitoring tool, SCOM is ideally placed for the job; monitoring both on-prem workloads or workloads that link up to the cloud. So, as SCOM is central to most companies’ monitoring, it is essential you understand how to be successful with SCOM!

Most of existing solutions for SNMP monitoring need you to configure complex dashboards. With Bleemeo, you can start in 30s to monitor your existing SNMP equipments. You need to add an extra component that will be in charge of fetching metrics of all your network equipments.

There’s little doubt that cloud computing is now the absolutely dominant force across enterprise computing. Most companies have switched from buying their own hardware and software to renting both from vendors who host their services in vast anonymous data centers around the globe.

In software, it’s essential to monitor logs of system activities. Today we’ll unravel what Linux logs are and how you can view them. Logging is a must for today’s developers and why Retrace was designed with a built-in, centralized log management tool.

SAP is one of the most business critical enterprise applications. As a result, keeping it secure is a top priority for managed service providers. In the last year SAP has notified its customers of multiple high risk vulnerabilities, through its SAP HotNews email alerts, which require urgent patching – but the challenge for MSP clients is to know “do these impact me?”

Site24x7 is one of the oldest website monitoring services, having been in operation since 2006. They are now owned by Zoho. They provide website monitoring, server monitoring, and application monitoring. Clients include Groupon, Getty Images, Xerox, and Harley-Davidson.

As more and more IT organizations move towards containerized workloads and services, it is more important than ever to have insight into the containers and the services running within. Leading the container orchestration charge is Kubernetes (aka k8s – the 8 represents the letters omitted from the middle of the word). In fact, about two-thirds of IT engineers have seen their Kubernetes option increase during the pandemic as there becomes more need for scaling and performance.

A growing number of BMC users are looking for a suitable replacement for BMC’s Middleware Management (“BMM”) solutions. The most frequently cited reasons for which these organizations are looking to replace their BMC software include: Nastel’s core business is Integration Infrastructure Management (i2M). Nastel believes that the Integration Infrastructure (commonly known as “middleware”) is the nervous system of every digitally integrated business.