Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Fixing SCOM's blind spots

Since its origins as MOM 2000, SCOM has been widely regarded for being awesome at two things: firstly, being the hands-down best solution for monitoring Windows Server environments (it is Microsoft’s monitoring tool, after all); and secondly, being an extensible monitoring platform that can act as a single pane of glass across your data center environment.

4 Tips to Manage Heavy Construction Equipment Management

The construction industry is filled with lots of equipment that is essential for running daily operations. Without them, it will be a hectic task and time-consuming as well. Therefore, it is significant to keep the equipment maintained and in good shape. But how to do that because assets are kept in distinct locations and how will they get maintenance on time? This is where equipment asset management software comes into play!

Now in Beta: Better Uptime Integration

StatusGator has a wide a variety of use cases: from education to help desk to IT and managed services and DevOps, too. All corners of an organization depend on cloud services and StatusGator gives you visibility into the status of all of your vendors. We’ve heard over and over from our DevOps users that alerts and notifications for their teams are already centralized into a single incident management platform such as OpsGenie, PagerDuty, or FireHydrant.

Getting Started With Docker Compose and Speedscale CLI

Observability, introspection, logging, and dependency mapping are critical when building APIs. With the advent of microservice architecture, understanding what happens inside your container is vital during development. Speedscale CLI is a container-centric tool that allows you to monitor inbound and outbound traffic. With Speedscale CLI, you can monitor raw requests, latency, encoding, and detected technologies.

Ask Miss O11y: When should you delete instrumentation?

When do you delete instrumentation? You delete instrumentation when you delete code. Other than that, if you’re doing things right: almost never. One of the best things about honeycomb is that it completely transforms the incentives around preserving instrumentation. With metrics-based tools, the most valuable metrics are always custom metrics. You need to define a custom metric for literally any question you might ever want to ask about the app and its utilization or performance.

How Theia Scientific and Volkov Labs use Grafana and AI to analyze scientific images

Dr. Christopher Field is Co-Founder, President, and Principal Investigator at Theia Scientific. With formal education in analytical chemistry and instrumentation, Chris has expertise in scientific hardware and software design, deploying embedded Linux devices for Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor fusion applications, and developing computer vision and image processing pipelines for cell analysis.

11 Tips for Using GitLens in VS Code

GitLens is the number one Git extension for VS Code, helping over 14 million developers unlock the power of Git in their favorite editor! Here are 11 expert tips on how to make the most of using GitLens right now! Optimize your Git experience with VS Code today – install GitLens to enjoy better project history visualization and insights! Install GitLens Free!

Recipe for Great In-Person Events: 5 Key DO's and DON'Ts

For the last couple of years, most of us have been working from spare rooms, bar stools at our kitchen islands, the couch, and even garages retrofitted into home offices. The pandemic has changed the world of work forever. It has also dramatically changed the world of networking and events. Since March of 2020, we’ve seen networking move to virtual spaces in the following forms: Many have spent a significant amount of time and energy building up their digital presence in the last two years.

Alloy Software Honored as Gold Stevie Award Winner in 2022 American Business Awards

New Jersey, April 29th, 2022 – We are happy to share that Alloy Software, a leading provider of IT Service Management and Asset Management solutions, was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® American Business Award in the IT Service Management Solution category, for the second time in a row! The judges praised Alloy Software for its impressive achievements, complimented the refreshed appearance of the new product version, and valued the remarkable good timing of added single sign-on options.