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Best Practices for Cloud Monitoring

In our last episode, we covered best practices for deploying and using Cloud Operations in an enterprise environment. But we still left some questions unanswered. How should you monitor your services? How should you deal with alerts? And what about managing cost? In this episode of Engineering for Reliability, Yuri discusses best practices for setting up and using Cloud Monitoring and optimizing monitoring costs.

AMA Responses: Icinga for Windows

00:10 Will there be any further Windows development in Icinga 2 except for the Windows agent part?

01:10 Are the Windows plugins considered to be deprecated?

02:12 Is it possible to only have the Icinga agent and the plugins without having the whole Icinga for Windows framework?

03:38 Are there plans to provide the PowerShell plugins as standalone, so one can use the plugins without the framework stuff?

Fail-Safe Digital Scheduler for On-Call Management

In this video, we discuss how OnPage's advanced, fail-proof digital schedules enable organizations to distribute workload evenly among scheduled, On-Call team members. The OnPage scheduler starts out "FULL" and schedules are created on top of it. This guarantees that a notification is delivered reliably, even when a slot is left empty on the scheduler. The scheduler reverts to the default group order and the entire group is notified, ensuring continuous coverage across your organization.

Deploying your first Serverless REST API within minutes

In this video, we'll show you how to get started with the serverless framework in minutes. To make sure your app will be running smoothly at all times, we'll also take you through how to set up observability for debugging, alerting, and troubleshooting so that you don't miss any critical errors and warning signs.

Windows logevent and regexp modules

There are several predefined modules in Pandora FMS with which we can monitor logs of our Windows environments in a simple way. This time we are going to see how to use the logevent and regexp modules through the log collector. Remember that it is necessary to have an ElasticSearch server installed in order to use these modules from the agent plugins section.