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AWS outage? A better way to monitor outages in Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) needs no introduction. It's one of the most popular services in the world. Or actually, the most popular cloud infrastructure provider (34%) according to this study. Like in any other service, there are outages. For people running their infrastructures, there's a good chance that outages have impacted your business in the past. And the reality for AWS (or any other service) is that there's a good chance it will happen again.

The Ultimate Guide on how AI-Based Tools Improves Writing

Writing is a quite complex and time-consuming task, especially for a beginner who has a limited vocabulary and experience. People who write for a living such as regular writers, freelancers, bloggers, etc., need to constantly come up with new ideas and ways to write those ideas in order to keep their readers engaged. Finding new ideas becomes hard for such people since they constantly have to pour out unique words and phrases for their clients or their own websites.

Making sure routes and config files are cached in a Laravel app

In a typical Laravel application, you'll likely to have many routes, config files and possible some events. In your development environment these routes and config files will loaded and registered in each request. The performance penalty for this is not too big. In a production environment, you want to cache these things. Laravel makes this easy by offering a couple of Artisan commands that you can use in your deployment procedure.

What is Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)?

The full form of MOM is Message-Oriented Middleware which is an infrastructure that allows communication and exchanges the data (messages). It involves the passing of data between applications using a communication channel that carries self-contained units of information (messages).In a MOM-based communication environment, messages are sent and received asynchronously.

VMware integration with Avantra

It was Avantra’s predecessor Syslink Xandria 7.2, released back in November 2018, which provided native cloud integration for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Right after this release providing our first step in automation for IaaS, specifically around start-/stop, we heard customers say: “But we have a huge VMware on-premise landscape, don’t forget us.” Needless to say that we certainly know that VMware products have made their way to the cloud since quite some time.

6 Help Desk Reporting Tips for Modern IT Management

The help desk can be both a vital part of a user’s experience and help to increase revenue, especially if it operates efficiently. Sitecore reports that you can triple a return on investment if you invest in help desks. Help desk reporting is an excellent tool used to identify ways to improve your help desk.

Is MetricFire An Alternative to Grafana?

In this article, we will talk about Graphite and Grafana monitoring systems, and their similarities and differences. Also, we will explain why it is an effective solution to use Graphite and Grafana together to monitor your system metrics. We will also learn about the benefits of using MetricFire. Sign up for MetricFire for free and store and process your system metrics with our hosted Graphite solution.

What Is an Asset Tag? A Complete Guide to the Asset Tagging Process

Are you a company that has assets in the hundreds? Maybe even in the thousands? If so, knowing the location and operational status of your company’s physical assets is imperative. It may sound repetitive, but we can’t overstate that your company’s profitability depends on being able to identify, manage, and control all of your assets. Physical assets are frequently used, sold, repaired, upgraded, removed, or even stolen.

How to Collect and Ship Windows Events Logs with OpenTelemetry

If you use Windows, you want to monitor Windows Events. With our latest contribution to the observIQ OpenTelemetry Collector, you can easily monitor Windows Events with OpenTelemetry. You can utilize this receiver in conjunction with any OTel collector: including the OpenTelemetry Collector and observIQ’s distribution of the collector. Below are steps to get up and running quickly with observIQ’s distribution, and shipping Windows Event logs to a popular backend: Google Cloud Ops.