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How to Leverage IT Automation and Cloud To Put Customers First

In the face of unexpected crises or disruptions, maintaining business continuity has become more important than ever. Last year, businesses around the world had to shift to a remote workforce model overnight. Were their IT departments prepared for this massive shift?

Understanding Load Balancing Essentials

In this post we’ll review some of the essential ideas in Load Balancing to help you understand how to get the best configuration for your application. Load balancing is an essential part of any application deployment to provide high availability, performance and security. We’ll focus on understanding and selecting scheduling and persistence algorithms and using the new LoadMaster Network Telemetry feature to validate the results.

Why choose the Connect license for SquaredUp SCOM dashboards?

Every enterprise has its arsenal of tech tools to tackle an array of different challenges. If you’re using SquaredUp for SCOM, you already have the best dashboard for SCOM data – but what if you could track all the metrics from all your tools on a single dashboard? Typically, to get the full picture of your infrastructure, you need the right toolset to connect to Web API, a SQL database, or through other means.

Improve Business Productivity

In the past year, Microsoft Teams has become one of the top videoconferencing and telecommunications platforms that have helped keep businesses productive throughout this global pandemic. Pivoting to remote/hybrid work environments in the long term is more easily achieved with a service like Microsoft Teams, which makes ensuring and maintaining optimal service on your end that much more important. Behold the key to help improve business productivity and optimize your Teams performance.

Turn your home office into a NOC room with Philips Hue and Grafana

I recently got a couple of Philips Hue Play lights to spice up my home office setup, and after a bit of tinkering with the APIs, I decided it would be a fun project to create my own personal NOC room, using them to visualize the status of some system I’m monitoring.

Analyze your logs easier with log field analytics

We know that developers or operators troubleshooting applications and systems have a lot of data to sort through while getting to the root cause of issues. Often there are fields like error response codes that are critical for finding answers and resolving those issues. Today, we’re proud to announce log field analytics in Cloud Logging, a new way to search, filter and understand the structure of your logs so you can find answers faster and easier than ever before.

Top 10 PromQL examples for monitoring Kubernetes

In this article, you will find 10 practical Prometheus query examples for monitoring your Kubernetes cluster. So you are just getting started with Prometheus, and are figuring out how to write PromQL queries. At Sysdig, we’ve got you covered! A while ago, we created a PromQL getting started guide. Now we’ll jump in skipping the theory, directly with some PromQL examples.

Securing containers on Amazon ECS Anywhere

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere enables you to simply run containers in whatever location makes the most sense for your business – including on-premises. Security is a key concern for organizations shifting to the cloud. Sysdig has validated our Secure DevOps platform with ECS Anywhere, giving AWS customers the security and visibility needed to run containers confidently on the new deployment model.

Reducing flaky test failures

Testing is vital because it helps you discover bugs before you release software, enabling you to deliver a high-quality product to your customers. Sometimes, though, tests are flaky and unreliable. Tests may be unreliable because of newly-written code or external factors. These flaky tests, also known as flappers, fail to produce accurate and consistent results. If your tests are flaky, they cannot help you find (and fix) all your bugs, which negatively impacts user experience.