Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Imagine you have a hole in your car's tire. To fix it quickly and get on your way, you apply a patch. Then it happens again. You apply another patch. Before you know it, you're driving on the highway and you blow a tire. The risk was always there. You were simply hiding it because you didn't solve the problem. We see this often when it comes to IT issues. Teams take a band-aid approach to fixing problems without addressing the underlying causes.

The shift to remote was an unprecedented challenge for most enterprises and businesses. IT operations had to ramp up quickly to maintain processes and workflows. Monitoring tools play a crucial role in enabling ITOps to do everything they need to analyze and resolve incidents quickly.

Close your eyes and breathe slowly, can you already feel the coolness on the tips of your boots? On the tense phalanges of your hands? The first step is right in front of you. It is a spiral staircase armed with worn ashlars under old voussoirs. The dim light of a chandelier accompanies you. What are you waiting for? Go up! The forbidden book awaits you in the last of the stays, where you will finally find out something about the history of monitoring.

What precisely are the requirements of a DevOps practitioner, as opposed to an SRE, legacy developer, or operations manager? And do those specific requirements require a different approach to monitoring?

We are seeing a renewed focus on accelerating digital transformation projects across business ecosystems and workflows within our customer base. These projects are enabling key business outcomes and this organizational transformation has given security and IT leaders the catalyst and opportunity to modernize security operations while eliminating on-premises debt.

In a recent press release entitled ‘Sumo Logic Achieves FedRAMP Moderate Authorization’, dated Feb 2, 2021, the pioneer in continuous intelligence announced its Continuous Intelligence Platform™ has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP™) Authorization at a Moderate impact level enabling the company to help public sector organizations get real-time insights into their complex on-premises and cloud environments.

If you’re familiar with Telegraf, you know that you can easily configure this lightweight collection agent with a single TOML configuration file to gather metrics from over 180 inputs and write data to a wide variety of different outputs and/or platforms. You might also know that Telegraf can act as a processor, aggregator, parser, and serializer.

Networks are growing more complex by the day and to monitor them effectively, organizations need to invest in technical know-how, expensive tools, and costly operations. To avoid the overheads of cost, effort, and time, and to ensure constant availability of networks, more and more organizations are turning to managed service providers (MSPs) to manage their network. In fact, the global market for MSPs has been steadily growing and is expected to cross $300 million in the next few years.

Keep track of various tasks and services of containers running within ECS instances.