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InfluxDB Community Office Hours - January 2020

InfluxDB Community Office Hours are one-hour, monthly online sessions, held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 10:00 am Pacific Time, by our Influxers to answer your questions about any topic related to InfluxDB or time series. We host this monthly live webinar so that users can directly ask a panel of Influxers questions and talk in real time. We record these sessions and post them on YouTube. InfluxDB Community Office Hours are part of our commitment to open source, developer happiness, and time to awesome.

The Simplest Way to Deploy Spring Boot with PostgreSQL on AWS

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is an amazing and reliable cloud service provider. AWS, like Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, provides everything you need to host an application without having to worry about running the underlying servers and network configuration. Everything you need to quickly begin hosting is provided as a packaged services.

Comparison of Cron Monitoring Services (January 2020)

If you are looking for a hosted cron job monitoring service, good news: there many options to choose from! In this post I’m comparing a selection of the more popular ones: Cronitor, Healthchecks.io, Cronhub, Site24x7, CronAlarm, PushMon and Dead Man’s Snitch. How I picked the services for comparison: I searched for “cron monitoring” on Google and picked the top results in their order of appearance. I was looking specifically for hosted, SaaS-style services.

Elastic SIEM for home and small business: Beats on CentOS

Hey, there. This is part five of the Elastic SIEM for home and small business blog series. If you haven’t read the first, second, and third blogs, you may want to before going any further. In the Getting started blog, we created our Elasticsearch Service deployment and started collecting data from one of our computers using Winlogbeat. In the Securing cluster access blog, we secured access to our cluster by restricting privileges for users and Beats.

3 Ways to Help CS and Engineering Work Better Together

As Engineering teams start spending more time and effort on incident response, they are usually focused on improving process with their specific team. We think there are additional benefits that can come from a holistic approach to improving incident response across your organization. In this post, we will explore how you can enable Engineering and Customer Success teams to work more effectively when an incident occurs.

Tracking Systems Metrics with collectd

System administrators hold many key responsibilities within an IT organization. Most importantly, they must ensure that all systems, services, and applications are up, running, and performing as expected. When a system starts to lag or an application is down, the system administrators are called upon to troubleshoot and resolve the issue as quickly as possible to limit the impact on customers.

8 Mobile Apps That Help You Create Content With Unique Features

Creating content for your website is like decorating the interior of your new house, if you don’t get it right, you would have your visitors dissatisfied and see them leave! Whether it is business or life, time is of the essence and the biggest currency in modern times. So, how can you create unique content, coping up with your busy schedule and other projects? It is quite simple, and you can go mobile! How?

Log Formats - a Complete Guide

Log management software operates on the basis of receiving, storing, and analyzing different types of log format files. There are several of these standardized log formats that are most commonly generated by a wide assortment of different devices and systems. As such, it is important to understand how they operate and differ from one another so that you can use them the right way, as well as avoid some common mistakes.