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Doing on-call management in a way that’s better, less stressful and actually works to improve your incident response processes, uptime & reliability.

In our latest article on the Amazon Builders’ Library, Yan Cui highlights the main takeaways from the article, Implementing health checks, by AWS Principal Engineer David Yanacek.

Making sure you don't overspend on AWS is a perennial challenge for many software companies. To help make sure you don't surpass your budget, AWS offers billing alerts, which send you an alert when your costs have reached a certain threshold. This can be a handy way to keep your costs in check, but can take some time to set up and will cost you some extra money.

In Pandora FMS, we keep on working and that is why, despite the holidays, we’re launching a new release full of news. In this update 743, we have completely transformed usability in visual console editing. In addition, the Satellite Server buffer and the collection size in the Metaconsole have been optimized, among other developments.

In this guest article John Arundel, consultant and author of Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes, introduces the Checkly Terraform provider. He explains what Terraform is and why you'd want to use it, and shows how to use Terraform to automate and manage your website monitoring with Checkly.

A sequel to our first post, Automating the installation of Elastic Cloud Enterprise with Ansible, this blog shows how to extend automation to cloud provisioning with Terraform. In the first post, we detailed how to deploy and configure Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) across three availability zones in AWS using Ansible. However, the provisioning of the underlying EC2 instances and configuration of the security groups was all manual.

The Elastic Common Schema (ECS) defines a common set of fields for ingesting data into Elasticsearch. A common schema helps you correlate data from sources like logs and metrics or IT operations analytics and security analytics. Further information on ECS can be found in the official Elastic documentation, GitHub repository, or the Introducing Elastic Common Schema article.

Welcome to the new year and a new decade! We’re sorry if you were hoping for “new year, new jokes.” But new glitches, we’ve got plenty of.

Network availability is critical for the health and performance of business-critical applications and IT infrastructure. Given that network resources like routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VoIP/UC, and wireless LAN controllers are the backbone of today’s digital infrastructure, how does IT gain the right levels of visibility to troubleshoot network issues?