There are multiple ways to interact programatically with Icinga. Last week Henrik demonstrated how to connect to the Icinga 2 API through the Icinga 2 Console. Working with the Icinga 2 API is probably the most obvious way to interact with Icinga. Still, I would like to suggest to you another option: How you can fetch data from Icinga Web.
In this How-To, we’re going to look at a specific Catchpoint synthetic monitor that helps you analyze the health of systems built around the Internet of things (IoT). Now, IoT is obviously a huge category, so in this case, we’re going to look at systems that utilize the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport or MQTT for short.
In the software lifecycle, you need to know what is affecting the customer from your frontend code to your underlying infrastructure. However, no one to date has solved for monitoring the health of software code vs. systems at the level that we have taken on — or at the scale that our customers require, as everything from grocery shopping to gaming is now digital.
Some may consider kicking off another new year with their organization a daunting continuation of 2020, however, this is not the case with LogicMonitor. Personally, coming up on my two-year anniversary, I have felt intrinsic energy from day one. With two years under my belt at LogicMonitor, and witnessing first-hand the organization growing at a rapid rate, I thought I would reflect on the opportunity at hand for my colleagues and myself.
The primary goal of our solutions is to help companies achieve specific business goals; whether that’s maintaining and improving the user experience and overall productivity, gaining valuable insight from enhanced visibility into your organization’s IT infrastructure, developing proactive strategies that mitigate the impact of service interruptions or issues, or all of the above, Martello is proud of the products and services we are able to provide.
Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get what you need for observability: Prometheus and Graphite for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for tracing, all integrated within Grafana and managed by the Grafana Labs team. You can go from zero to beautiful graphs, insightful logs, and preconfigured alerts in minutes. Built with modern distributed systems techniques, Grafana Cloud allows you to grow with your applications and infrastructure and easily scale past 100M+ metrics.
As part of a modern software development team, you’re asked to do a lot. You’re supposed to build faster, release more frequently, crush bugs, and integrate testing suites along the way. You’re supposed to implement and practice a strong DevOps culture, read entire novels about SRE best practices, go agile, or add a bunch of Scrum ceremonies to everyone’s calendar.
Picture the scene. It’s 9am on a cold, wet, January Sunday morning in 2015 and I’m trudging up Merrion Street in Leeds. Recently made redundant, I’m on my way to a coffee shop that I’m desperately hoping is open. Am I a coffee aficionado desperate for a fix? Am I getting pumped for a gym session? Do I just enjoy walks in the rain? No. I’m on my way to a job interview.
Application slowdowns, poor Internet speed, and laggy video calls are always frustrating. Whether you’re working in an office, or working from home, it’s important to keep an eye on the applications that matter most. In this article, we’re teaching you how to monitor the network performance of Google apps, including Google Meet, Google Workspace, Gmail & Google Calendar.
