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Icinga 2 v2.9 introduced performance related changes inside the configuration compilation and activation order. This was to ensure a) no unwanted notifications b) use available CPU resources to speed up the overall validation process. These changes had a bad effect on configuration depending on a specific activation order, and slowed it down with many config objects of a specific type. The Icinga Director depends on get_host() being called in service objects to support specific service set overrides.

This year, at Sumo Logic’s third annual user conference, Illuminate 2018, we presented Sumo Logic Notebooks as a way to do data science in Sumo Logic. Sumo Logic Notebooks are an experimental feature that integrate Sumo Logic, notebooks and common machine learning frameworks. They are a bold attempt to go beyond what the current Sumo Logic product has to offer and enable a data science workflow leveraging our core platform.

To all the developers out there, it is highly advisable that every application you build should have tools that will monitor performance and ensure that it runs correctly. There are a variety of tools available that can monitor your application’s performance. Choosing the right tool that caters to your organization’s needs should be a priority.

One of our main aims when developing Downtime Monkey is to make the user experience outstanding. With that in mind we've rolled out an improvement to the user interface that enables you to view the current status of all your websites at a glance.

Your private network is teeming with web services (APIs), intranet, business applications like CRMs and ERPs, acceptance and preproduction environments, databases, and other servers. Your business relies on your network infrastructure to function every day. Each part of that infrastructure needs to be available, performing, and functioning well to keep your business humming along.

In an ideal world, your DevOps toolchain would be highly automated for incident management and allow your teams to resolve issues at DevOps speed. An alert triggered by monitoring tools like Datadog or AWS Cloudwatch would notify on-call engineers, kick your collaboration tools into gear (ChatOps, StatusPage, etc), and automatically document the issue in ITSM and ticketing tools.