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Pandora FMS vs Centreon vs Nagios XI

Centreon is a solution for monitoring applications, systems and networks, based on Nagios source code. On 1st August, 2005 the company Merethis (now Centreon) was founded and began working on “their” Nagios version, calling it Oreon. In July 2007, the Oreon software changed its name to Centreon due to a name conflict with Orion (a component of the SolarWinds monitoring suite).

Understand production performance with Cloud Profiler history view

Cloud Profiler is a favorite of Google Cloud customers thanks to the insight that it provides into the performance of your production code. You can use this knowledge to reduce and shorten outages, improve performance, and optimize compute spend—always a popular topic! Profiler has always provided the ability to view and compare CPU and memory performance over time through time filters and the comparison feature.

Monitoring CI/CD Pipelines

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) form the backbone of the product delivery lifecycle. A well tuned, fault tolerant and scalable CI/CD pipeline is very important to support modern Agile teams. Despite obvious business advantages, a rapid release approach combined with continuous change processes resulting from DevOps principles will in the long run generate new challenges. The entire process needs to be carefully examined and controlled.

PostgreSQL vs MySQL

Despite all of the hype about NoSQL databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL are two database management systems that have truly stood the test of time. These systems were developed back in the mid 90’s, and they still consistently rank among the top 5 most popular databases across the internet. So why are they so widely used and how do they compare? Read on to find out!

The 7 Application Performance Metrics You Need to Measure and Why

When it comes to releasing new features out into the wild, developers and managers alike need to toe the line between speed and performance. Take an all too common situation, where sales submits a high priority ticket to the development team that's a blocker for an enterprise deal coming through the pipeline.

Kibana Lens Tutorial: Easily Create Stunning Visualizations

Millions of people already use Kibana for a wide range of purposes, but it was still a challenge for the average business user to quickly learn. Visualizations often require quite a bit of experimentation and several iterations to get the results “just right” and this Kibana Lens tutorial will get you started quickly.

Masaf Dawood on Google Cloud's Compelling Enterprise Story

Google Cloud has been gaining some noticeable traction in recent months: 43% growth in Q2 is nothing to sniff about, especially during a global recession. Masaf Dawood is director of Google Cloud services with SpringML, a premier Google Cloud partner with specialties in application development, data analytics, machine learning and marketing analytics. SpringML works exclusively with Google Cloud and has worked on 200 engagements with Google since the consultancy was founded in 2015.