Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Can it help businesses? Machine learning is an inescapable buzzword for many in the operations sector. Even friends and colleagues tend to make us aware of a new ML tool that may or may not be useful. While there are many ML tools in the market, not all are suitable for every business. Some tools, when tested, struggle to solve basic, everyday use cases. Therefore, when evaluating ML tools, other deeper questions and issues do arise.

Redis is designed to be fast. In most cases, it is. However, there are times when Redis may be slow, due to network issues, disk latency, or other factors. When this happens, it is important to be able to detect the slow down and investigate the cause. Latency is the maximum delay between the time a client issues a command and the time the reply to the command is received by the client. Redis has strict requirements on average and worst case latency.

The life of a sysadmin or SRE is often difficult, but occasionally very simple things can make a huge difference. Basic monitoring of your systemd services is one of those simple things, which we sometimes overlook. The simplest question one would want to know is if the thing that’s supposed to be running is actually running at all. If you use systemd services, you can guarantee an answer to that question within minutes using Netdata.

Your IT Infrastructure team faces untenable demands on their time and resources as your organization increasingly relies on complex hybrid infrastructures and an ever-growing set of technologies and cloud-based services. You can actually limit visibility and slow triage as you add monitoring tools to cover this expansion, blocking critical insight into your environment at the IT service level. What’s really required to be successful in today’s IT infrastructure environment?

Network topology can get very complicated in the cloud, especially when you’re sending data to external SaaS providers. You will likely need to configure gateways and firewalls and keep close tabs on those points of egress. However, if your infrastructure exists within AWS, there’s a much simpler way and that’s through an AWS PrivateLink endpoint.

AIOps stands for artificial intelligence for IT Operations. AIOps, is a set of tools and algorithms that gather data from the entire IT environment, including different monitoring systems, log files and other IT data sources. It then analyzes and applies machine learning algorithms to determine the root cause of an incident. This means that instead of having to go through a long troubleshooting process by analyzing log files and manually looking for root causes, AIOps does it for you in minutes.

Sentry Alerts ping you on Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Pager Duty when something goes needs your attention. However, too many alerts can turn your notification channel into an endless noise feed. I spoke with dozens of Sentry customers in the past 6 months, and something I heard over and over again was “Sentry can get noisy at times” and “There are days I can’t keep up with Sentry notifications because we get so many of them”. Does this sound familiar?