Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Manage CloudFront real-time logs in Datadog

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) that minimizes latency by caching your content on AWS edge locations around the world. With CloudFront real-time logging, you can understand how efficiently CloudFront is distributing your content and responding to requests. You can collect CloudFront real-time logs in Datadog—in addition to CloudFront metrics—to get deep visibility into the health and performance of your CloudFront distribution.

Datadog's KubeCon 2020 guide

The CNCF’s KubeCon North America 2020 is the premier event for adopters and technologists to learn about and work with the Kubernetes community—and it’s coming up in just a few days. With so much to do and learn within a short period of time, it can be challenging to know where to focus your time. Now that we’re living in an age of all-virtual conferences, that challenge has only increased.

5 key benefits of using an IP scanner

In todays IP-centric world, it’s becoming increasingly complex to support network-intensive adaptations like cloud adoption and bring your own device (BYOD) polices. As an IT admin, you’re responsible for scanning and tracking your IP resources to ensure that network devices and end users can be allocated unique IP addresses to access your network.

Monitor AWS Outposts with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. The rapid adoption of hybrid IT has driven the need for a more consistent and standardized availability of cloud resources and operations so IT teams can rapidly deliver services deployed either on the public cloud or on-premises.

Community Highlight: How to Build an InfluxDB Template

For the last few months, I have been actively contributing to the InfluxDB community by building InfluxDB Templates for InfluxDB 2.0. InfluxDB is the purpose-built time series database used for metric collection and storage. Let’s build an InfluxDB Template to monitor PostgreSQL together! 👏

What challenges does IT monitoring face?

“The big challenge is to become all you could possibly be”, Jim Rohn. “The only way to grow is to challenge yourself,” Ashley Tisdale. “The bigger the obstacle, the more glory there is in overcoming it”, Molière… And so we could continue with a long list of inspiring and fighting-spirited people who faced life and came out victorious (probably). Pandora FMS is the same. Unbreakable and litigant.

How to Use Monitoring Analytics for Data-Driven Decision Making

Data-driven decision-making is a method based on identifying and analyzing critical metrics and figures to gain insights about key issues and produce a workable solution. An essential aspect of this decision-making process is monitoring analytics that serves to quantify the performance of interconnected systems and resources for enhanced performance visibility and informed decision-making.

Alert Fatigue | Are You a DevOps Zombie?

George Romero’s zombie classic, Dawn of the Dead, is the perfect analogy for a lot like the DevOps experience. Your cluster of services is like your Monroeville Mall. Your safe haven where you live and work for years on end, toiling away at survival. But who are the zombies? The answer isn’t always clear when you’re busy chasing down alerts at 2 AM.

How to build 3 powerful APM workflows with Raygun

From investigating slow performance to digging into inefficient API calls, there are many ways we can approach improving application performance on any given day. Raygun gives developers actionable metrics on performance bottlenecks so you can prioritize your day to day workflow around creating better customer experiences.