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Canadian Credit Union picks NiCE Active 365 Management Pack

NiCE IT Management Solutions is proud to serve global key-players in advanced performance and health monitoring. Read the latest customer reference on how the NiCE Active 365 Management Pack is helping a Canadian Credit Union in their Microsoft Office 365 operations.

Everything you need to monitor a website

Website downtime can cause serious damage not only for your reputation and brand image, but also in productivity, all of which leads to business losses. A Gartner survey revealed that website downtime can cost companies up to $5,600 per minute. Recently, the world's biggest online retailer, Amazon, experienced a technical blotch leading to their website being inaccessible for 13 minutes, costing the company around $2 million in revenue losses.

AppSignal

Made for teams that want to build high quality Ruby and Elixir applications, AppSignal offers amazing insights into errors and performance issues, plus host monitoring and an easy to use custom metrics platform.

Rails is Fast: Optimize Your View Performance

In this post, we’ll look into tried and true methods of improving Rails view performance. Specifically, I will focus on database efficiency, view manipulation, and caching. I think the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has been taken a little out of context. I’ve often heard developers use this during code reviews when simple optimization techniques are pointed out.

Loki 1.3.0 Released!

Welcome to 2020! (We’re a little slow with that on the Loki team.) To kick off the year we are releasing Loki 1.3! Anyone running Loki in microservices mode will be excited by this release as it introduces the Loki Query Frontend. (If you aren’t using microservices, be patient – good things will be coming your way soon.) The query frontend sits in front of the queriers and allows sharding queries based on time.

How to Solve Real World Application Problems With APM - SolarWinds Lab Episode #83

Based on one of the most popular SWUG™ (SolarWinds User Group) sessions of 2019, Jim Hansen, SolarWinds VP of application management products, shows you how to combine user experience monitoring with custom metrics, distributed tracing, log analytics, and log management to provide unparalleled visibility into your custom applications. Jim will demonstrate, step by step, how Pingdom®, AppOptics™, and Loggly® integrate with one another to help you pinpoint performance issues and keep your end users happy.

January 2020 Online Meetup: Securing Your Production Grade Kubernetes Clusters Using Rancher

As DevOps teams deploy Kubernetes in production using Rancher, enterprises must focus on the runtime security and compliance requirements of their cloud-native platforms. Starting with Rancher 2.2, we published self-assessment and hardening guides to outline provisioning a cluster to comply with the CIS Kubernetes benchmark. Identifying gaps and pain points in the process, Rancher engineering added additional features to both Rancher and RKE to simplify the process.

10 Alerts and Visualizations for S3 Server Access Logs to take control of AWS infrastructure

AWS S3 Server Access logs provide detailed records for requests made to S3 buckets. They’re useful for many applications. For example, access log information can be useful in security and access audits. It can also help generate customer insights and better understand your Amazon S3 bill. Coralogix makes it easy to integrate with your S3 server access logs via a Lambda function.