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For quite a long time now, Visual Studio Code has been one of the leading IDEs in the developer market. This is no doubt as the IDE is streamlined and made to support a lot of out-of-the-box tools. The IDE has come a long way, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon. One major reason why VS Code is preferred by many is the ability of the developer to install tools that could help better their work in terms of productivity, better-looking code, and even collaboration.

When you design architecture to monitor your digital assets - either software applications or hardware devices, you need to use different strategies depending on your monitoring target. The factors you want to consider can vary including methods of retrieving monitoring data, frequency of data collection, and how you want to surface metrics and insight you find to stakeholders. In this article, we will mainly discuss how we can monitor your network SNMP devices using Hosted Graphite.

Container runner, a new container-friendly self-hosted runner, is now available for all CircleCI users. Self-hosted runners are a popular solution for customers with unique compute or security requirements. Container runner reduces the barrier to entry for using self-hosted runners within a containerized environment and makes it easier for central DevOps teams to manage running containerized CI/CD jobs behind a firewall at scale.

MySQL is the most used database in the world. And as it continues to grow in popularity as an open-source database system for developers, understanding how these indexes work is an important step for database developers and administrators. This tutorial is going to explore clustered indexes and secondary indexes in MySQL. MySQL also has other types of indexes besides the B-tree indexes I’ll be discussing, such as fulltext indexes and hash indexes.

If you’re finding it a little difficult to sift through all the varying, often conflicting information surrounding the topic of network observability, you’re certainly not alone.

Event correlation is a powerful capability that can help reduce IT noise, detect incidents in real-time, and improve the performance of critical applications and services. Read on for a deep dive into event correlation as we explore everything from its origins to its current state-of-the-art techniques. We’ll also discuss how event correlation fits into the bigger picture of integrated service management.

The Harvester team is pleased to announce the next release of our open source hyperconverged infrastructure product. For those unfamiliar with how Harvester works, I invite you to check out this blog from our 1.0 launch that explains it further. This next version of Harvester adds several new and important features to help our users get more value out of Harvester. It reflects the efforts of many people, both at SUSE and in the open source community, who have contributed to the product thus far.

Just before Halloween 2021, Roblox engineers experienced a horror story: a service outage that also took down critical monitoring systems. It seemed like the issue was a hardware problem, but it wasn’t. Users were frustrated, and the clock was ticking. After three full days of downtime, service was finally restored on Halloween day. While the incident itself was an IT nightmare, Roblox’s detailed technical post-mortem several months later was an excellent way to bounce back.

For the last couple of years, most of us have been working from home. Pandemic has changed the world of networking and events. Events went virtual because of lockdowns. Now they’re becoming in-person again. These events are a great way to drive new business. Exhibiting at shows can be expensive, but you can achieve a lot as an attendee. You’ve probably spent quite some time building your digital presence in the last couple of years.

HAProxy is generally the frontend layer of your application, which means it plays a critical role since all traffic first lands on this layer. Because of this, you need to make sure everything is working at this layer all the time, as any issue can directly impact your business. Therefore, having visibility on this layer is crucial. Visibility can come from two aspects: the metrics HAProxy emits and the logs it generates while handling requests.