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Explore Sensu workflows & lesson plans with the Sensu sandbox

We’re excited to share that we’ve created an easy to use — and reusable — Sensu sandbox environment to help folks learn how to work with Sensu monitoring event pipelines. At Sensu Summit, we realized that many of you already had some sort of sandbox that you’d spun up to do your own testing, and demos and we’ve created something to help make things easier for everyone.

GitLab Integration and More New Features at Honeybadger

As fall arrives, our thoughts turn to cozy sweaters, pumpkin-spice lattes, and wicked new Honeybadger features. We're particularly proud of our new GitLab integration. More and more people are moving to GitLab these days, drawn by the privacy of a self-hosted solution or by its growing suite of developer tools. With this release Honeybadger supports your self-hosted or managed GitLab, just like we've always supported GitHub and BitBucket.

Top 7 Performance Problems in .NET Applications and How to Solve Them

Microsoft .NET Framework is one of the most popular application development platforms and programming languages. C# and ASP.NET frameworks are used by millions of developers for building Windows client applications, XML Web services, distributed components, client-server applications, database applications, and so on. It’s no surprise that ensuring top-notch performance of .NET applications is a foremost need for most application owners and developers.

Monthly Snap September: Icinga Meetup Salzburg, OSMC & Release Updates

Our first Icinga meetup in Salzburg, Austria is happening this week. Join fellow community members :) OSMC is near, just one month to go …. meet Jan-Piet on MQTT, Claudio as a first-time speaker on container monitoring, Nicolai with infrastructure visualization and Carsten with his “Einhornmagie” :-)

The Value of Loyalty in Word Of Mouth Marketing

People aren’t loyal to companies. They’re loyal to values, relationships, and experiences. While someone may say they’re 100% loyal to a certain brand of coffee, for instance, it is more likely that they absolutely prefer the taste of that brand compared to other brands at the store. However, if they are truly loyal to the brand and the company, then there is probably something more to that story.

How to install a High Availability Database Cluster with Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS relies on a MySQL database for configuration and data storage. A database failure can temporarily bring your monitoring solution to a halt. The Pandora FMS high availability database cluster allows you to easily deploy a fault-tolerant, robust architecture.

Sentry's New Java Agent: Adding Context to Your Stack Traces

We’re enhancing the existing Sentry Java SDK with our new Java agent. The thing is — it’s still in beta, and we need your feedback. Once downloaded, the agent will enhance your application stack traces on Sentry by adding the names and values of local variables to each frame. Specifically, the agent provides much more detail about the current state of the application at the time of the error than you would usually have.

Key metrics for Elasticsearch performance monitoring

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable, distributed, open-source RESTful search and analytics engine that offers log analytics, real-time application monitoring, click stream analytics, and more. Elasticsearch stores and retrieves data structures in real time. It has multi-tenant capabilities with an HTTP web interface, presents data in the form of structured JSON documents, makes full-text search accessible via RESTful API, and maintains web clients for languages like PHP, Ruby, .Net, and Java.

Monitoring Java using JMX and custom metrics

JMX (Java Management Extensions) is a set of specifications conceived to monitor and manage Java applications. To implement the JMX technology, you need to create and register MBeans (Managed Beans) as part of your Java code. Using JMX technology and tools, Java application developers can get the dynamic state of the application and use it for performance tuning, troubleshooting and debugging.