As communication and network infrastructure grows in size and complexity, having a complete view and understanding of your network environment (including the amount and type of network traffic going back and forth) becomes vital to your business’ health and operations. Having the right tools to do the job is just as important. If you can’t quickly determine the source, destination, rate and the type of traffic going across the network, you don’t have the right tool.

We cover a lot of ground this week with posts on general monitoring principles, home automation, how CERN uses open source projects in their particle acceleration work, and more.

The goal of a planned maintenance announcement should be to get the right people informed and confident about the upcoming maintenance. Here’s our guide to announcing scheduled maintenance, along with some examples from our friends who are doing it well.

What is whitebox monitoring? Why do we monitor our systems? What is the Azure Monitor plugin and how can I use it to monitor my Azure resources? Recently, I spoke at Swetugg 2018, a .NET conference held in Stockholm, Sweden to answer these questions. In this video you’ll learn some basic monitoring principles, some of the tools we use to monitor our systems, and get an inside look at the new Azure Monitor plugin for Grafana.

NVM (Node Version Manager) is a great tool that enables the user to switch beetween differents versions of Node.js. Here's a quick introduction on how to install, use it and take advantage of all its features.

We announced it at NodeJS paris meetup (here are the slides) and we did it! For the release of PM2 0.9.x, a new awesome and simple feature will make your life much easier.

As you would probably know, Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime, gracefully named V8. The V8 engine, and hence Node.js, runs in a single-threaded way, therefore, doesn't take advantage of multi-core systems capabilities.

The following article contains the new integrations, product features and other exciting announcements from OpsGenie in May.

In order to meet rising customer demands and the expectation of “real time, all the time,” digital operations is changing the way people work. And one of the most interesting macro trends is seeing how that impacts not just your IT Operations and Development teams, but also how the entire business is becoming involved in raising the level of responsiveness to customers.

Icinga turned 9 in May, we’re kicking off our 10th year of spreading the #icingalove. ? OSMC 2018 Call for Papers is officially open and we are looking forward to hear your Icinga stories this year. Did you dive through distributed setups, automated everything and combined the metrics of many tools into your stack? That’s a hell of a ride, and other community members will certainly listen and learn from your expertise.