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A Guide To Opentelemetry Collector

This article will give you a quick overview of some of the key attributes you should know in order to get started with leveraging the OpenTelemetry collector for your next telemetry project. As an integral component of any project that involves distributed tracking, the OpenTelemetry Collector plays an important role. Simply put, it is helpful to know that the collector itself is a data pipeline service that collects telemetry data.

Complete Guide to Endpoint Backup

Without a doubt, a data recovery solution is essential when it comes to maintaining security and business continuity. Backups give you important survival options when ransomware hits, a laptop is lost, or someone accidentally deletes a folder full of important files. Without those safe, secure, redundant copies of your most important data, you’d be left out in the cold.

IoT Project Lifecycle: Key considerations for OTA updates at scale [Part IV]

From entertainment to security, automation is now pervasive. Intelligent devices are transforming our homes while enriching our lives, making them more efficient, productive and environmentally friendly. Most embedded devices run Linux, and their number is poised to keep growing.

Rising IT costs: What to watch out for

It seems like every conversation is about inflation lately. Everything is getting more expensive and the news cycle suggests there is little chance of that abating. Inflation and supply chain challenges are having a knock on effect in terms of cloud adoption and network usage. We’ve already seen some of the big providers increase their prices - so what’s to be done? Can technology also offer solutions for stemming the rise of IT costs?

How to Simplify Asset Audits with the help of the Asset Auditing Mobile Application?

Asset auditing is usually a long procedure especially when an organization has lots of assets. It becomes more hectic when you know some assets such as vehicles are in different locations and some vehicles are out making deliveries to clients. That is why it is important to plan asset audits in a way so that you have assets available at the time of audit. However, it is not simple as it seems that is why auditing is a complicated procedure!

The Power Of Combining Kubernetes And Non-Kubernetes Cloud Spend

Whether you’re new to Kubernetes or a bona fide wizard, it may seem like getting any meaningful cost data out of it is a miracle. This is because many organizations that migrate to Kubernetes unwittingly step into the Black Box of Kubernetes Spend. In pre-Kubernetes life, teams could allocate costs by tagging resources.

iLert is now a verified integration with HCP Consul

More than 16 months ago we provided a solution to integrate HashiCorp Consul with our alerting and on-call management platform by using consul-alerts - a dedicated application that allows for communication between a deployed Consul instance and an existing iLert account. ‍ With more code infrastructure being moved to the cloud to ensure better security and availability, we too have ensured that our service integrates with the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).

How to monitor host reachability

Most sysadmins and developers have at some point used a few of the popular Linux networking commands or their Windows equivalents to answer the common questions of host reachability- that is, whether a host or service is reachable and how fast it responds. One of the simplest, common checks, is to simply ping a host to verify that it’s reachable from where you issue the command, and to see the total time it takes for the host to receive your request.

How to add a store locator to your ecommerce storefront with Elastic

One thing that adds value to a business’s ecommerce presence is the ability for customers to easily find physical stores with an interactive map. Store locators can be built quite rapidly — all you need to place them on a map is geographic location in latitude and longitude. In this post, I’ll outline the pieces needed to put together a proof-of-concept store locator that could later be added to an ecommerce website.