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Why You NEED to constantly check website speed

No one likes a slow website. Every IT pro needs to constantly check website speed to keep up with the demands of today’s uber-connected world. Fast websites aren’t just about laptops or desktops anymore. Website users connect from a variety of devices like cell phones and smart TVs. This post will discuss website speed testing, including how often you should test your speed, why one speed test probably won’t cut it, and some tips and tricks related to website speed and performance.

Leveraging HashiCorp Consul and Datadog for Service Mesh Deployments

Service mesh is quickly becoming a standard for organizations making the transition to a microservice environment. As companies make this shift, there are three key considerations for deploying an effective service mesh: Networking, Observability, and Reliability. This webinar will focus in on the Observability component of service meshes, specifically tracing. Watch this webinar to learn how HashiCorp Consul and Datadog are collaborating to help users implement and monitor their service mesh deployments.

Top 10 Open Source Monitoring Tools for Kubernetes

With over 58K stars on GitHub and over 2,200 contributors across the globe, Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration. While solving some of the key challenges involved in running distributed microservices, it has also introduced some new ones. Not surprisingly, when asked, engineers list monitoring as one of the main obstacles for adopting Kubernetes. After all, monitoring distributed environments has never been easy and Kubernetes adds additional complexity.

SCOM is the most popular tool for monitoring SBC/ VDI

Google “SCOM and Azure” and the top hits will tell you all about “Moving from SCOM to Azure Monitor”, “Changing of the guard…”, and “Microsoft explains why it replaced SCOM with Azure Monitor” etc. If you only read the marketing, you’d be forgiven for thinking SCOM is being replaced. Microsoft’s marketing push on Azure Monitor has no doubt caused some uncertainty about the position of SCOM.

12 Tools to Provide a Killing Content for Your eCommerce Blog

With so much competition in the world of e-commerce, managing to reach the level of exposure targeted and to maintain your site visitors engaged isn’t easy. You need to use effective strategies that allow you to boost the appeal of your platform, maintain rankings up and decrease bounce rates.

Deduping HA Prometheus Samples in Cortex

One of the best practices for running Prometheus in production environments is to use a highly available setup, in which multiple Prometheus instances all scrape the same targets. This means multiple instances have all your metrics data, so if one fails, the data is still available on another. Ideally, each instance would run on a separate machine.

LogicMonitor's Best Practice Approach to Security

A few months ago, LogicMonitor was certified to the ISO 27000 standards for Information Security management, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to write a bit about our efforts to build our information security certification program as well as our own best practices for secure use of the LogicMonitor platform.