This article describes an end-to-end solution built with open source components InfluxDB and Grafana and the ogamma Visual Logger for OPC, to collect industrial process control data, analyze it in streaming mode, and visualize it in a dashboard.

Project owners and developers turn to open source APM tools to lessen the cost of application performance monitoring. In this entry, let’s examine the attributes of these open source tools. Years ago, traditional APM solutions were designed for IT only, particularly network operations. The APMs were used to monitor data to ensure the network’s Quality of Service(QoS). However, the landscape has changed.

The ability to detect and alert performance issues quickly is key to reducing the Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR). Proactive monitoring will catch incidents early on but triggering the right alerts and notifying the relevant incident management team is just as critical. Enterprises rely on multiple disparate tools to monitor different systems so there is a lot of data and noise generated which can render incident management inefficient.

If you’ve deployed an application or service to the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud, you’ve probably made use of an EC2 instance. One of the decisions that you had to make before you could start a new instance, was which instance type to use. Choosing an EC2 instance type can be a complicated process. AWS organizes their instance types into instance families, and within an instance family, there are varying sizes from micro to 32xlarge.

When getting started using Icinga 2, it is often enough to use a single master instance. But if your monitoring is business critical, you don’t want to rely on a single master being online. This post will guide you through setting up Icinga 2 with two masters in HA mode.

Our sources state that there has been a 20% increase in web-skimming attacks since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. Recently, we have witnessed some high-profile Magecart attacks. The latest Magecart attacks include; American Payroll Association, music giant – Warner Music Group, and lifestyle subscription brand – FabFitFun.