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Monitoring Telegraf Plugins in Your Architecture

Monitoring Telegraf — the open source, plugin-driven server agent for collecting metrics from stacks, sensors and systems — is important because it allows you to track the health of Telegraf plugins in your stack. It’s for this purpose that the Telegraf Monitoring Template was developed. Before introducing the template, it’s helpful to recall how Telegraf works.

Key Kubernetes audit logs for monitoring cluster security

Kubernetes continues to be a popular platform for deploying containerized applications, but securing Kubernetes environments as you scale up is challenging. Each new container increases your application’s attack surface, or the number of potential entry points for unauthorized access. Without complete visibility into every managed container and application request, you can easily overlook gaps in your application’s security as well as malicious activity.

Automated IT Software and Customer Services: The Key to Today's UX

Service experience is more important than the service itself! Successful service experience goes beyond simply delivering the right business outcome. As your user base has all sorts of individuals, it is necessary to make sure that your solution is the perfect fit for all of them. It should satisfy their professional needs in the best possible way and also deliver a service experience that meets the contextual needs and professional expectations of the end-user.

How To Detect and Prevent Memory Leaks

A memory leak in an application deployed on the cloud can affect the availability and reliability of the application. Therefore, it is highly important to identify and ultimately resolve it quickly. However, in the production environment running on the cloud, memory leak detection is a challenge without the knowledge of the application or its internal object allocation details.

The Symbiosis Between the OSI Model and Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

It’s no secret that Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is becoming a critical competency in today’s enterprise networks. After all, so many enterprises are moving to a cloud-based model that leverages tiers of service, which brings unforeseen complexity into the task of keeping things running smoothly.