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Prometheus Monitoring: What You Need to Know

Effective monitoring is crucial for maintaining system health and performance. Prometheus has grown in popularity as a an open-source monitoring solution, gaining traction among developers and operations teams, especially in cloud-native monitoring environments. In fact, Kubernetes – the de facto industry standard for deploying and operating containerized applications – comes bundled with Prometheus.
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Seasonal Holiday Readiness Testing with Production Traffic

Many businesses depend on seasonal products, offerings, and campaigns. Seasonal traffic usually refers to high traffic levels because of festival seasons like Thanksgiving and Christmas and sales events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Boxing Day. These impact a wide range of industries, such as travel, hospitality, social activities, and, most prominently, e-commerce. If your business is primarily run online, you'll need your applications to be elastic and flexible enough to handle this significant increase in traffic to cater to demand and also maintain a good user experience for your customers.

Meet SSIS Data Flow Components Major Release: Fresh Components, Subscription Model, New Licensing Options, and Other Enhancements

Devart is excited to announce a major release featuring new SSIS Data Flow Components for Zendesk, SurveyMonkey, and Shopify. This update also introduces a new subscription model with flexible and cost-effective plans for users, along with expanded licensing options. Additionally, significant enhancements have been made to improve performance and functionality of the existing SSIS Data Flow Components that aim to help businesses take their data integration processes to a whole new level. In this release.

Galileo SMARTboards Feature Updates

In 2023, Galileo Suite introduced SMARTboards, our innovative customizable dashboards. Our initial launch was met with enthusiasm, especially after our live demo showcased their versatility and functionality. Today, we are excited to announce several Galileo SMARTboards feature updates that enhance their usability and value.

Top 11 Grafana Alternatives [comparison 2024]

Grafana is a widely used open-source platform for monitoring and visualization. Grafana has a lot of built-in functionality and also provides a large amount of community templates that can improve your overall experience. However, Grafana requires quite a lot of configuration and the documentation can be a bit overwhelming for beginners. In this article, we explore seven alternatives that can be simpler to use and can provide seamless integration of traces, logs, and metrics.

Deploying InfluxDB and Telegraf to Monitor Kubernetes

I run a small Kubernetes cluster at home, which I originally set up as somewhere to experiment. Because it started as a playground, I never bothered to set up monitoring. However, as time passed, I’ve ended up dropping more production-esque workloads onto it, so I decided I should probably put some observability in place. Not having visibility into the cluster was actually a little odd, considering that even my fish tank can page me.

All you need to know about colocation

While it’s easy to think that everything is now in the cloud, there are still some use cases and some businesses that need private data centres. In this blog, we look at the benefits of colocation and explore the key considerations for businesses when choosing colocation services. Colocation, often shortened to ‘colo’, is a service provided by data centre owners and operators where the floor space and facilities, including electricity and connectivity, are rented to private enterprises.

AWS S3 Alternatives: Best Choices For Object Storage Solutions

Approximatly 94% of organizations worldwide have adopted cloud computing, with 50% relying on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their needs. This is mainly due to AWS’s global accessibility, scalability, and reliability. Among AWS services, Amazon S3 stands out as one of the most widely used. Modern businesses demand robust storage solutions, and S3 delivers with 99.99% durability. However, the service does have some limitations, leading some users to explore Amazon S3 alternatives.

It's time to stop neglecting the elephant in the room: Performance Matters!

Ralph Marsten once said, “Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.” Many organizations today seem to follow the opposite. If everything looks green on a dashboard, they assume all is well. But is it?

Cloud Migration Strategy: A Complete Guide for Your Business

The cloud has become an essential tool for businesses looking to scale, innovate, and remain competitive. But migrating to the cloud is not as simple as flipping a switch. The process requires careful planning, robust strategies, and a deep understanding of the potential risks and rewards. That’s why having a well-defined cloud migration strategy is crucial.