Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Find and fix issues faster with our new Logs Viewer

Monitoring your cloud infrastructure is an essential part of making sure your operations are running smoothly. Since announcing the new Cloud Logging interface in February, we’ve heard from users that the new interface is making it faster and easier to meet logging needs, including troubleshooting issues, verifying deployments, and ensuring compliance. One of those users, Arne Claus, is a site reliability engineer at trivago, and has taken advantage of the new interface already.

Episode 12: Tweaking Systemd Services With Ansible

We thought we were done with infrastructure work. We were wrong. Just as we've started work on application code, it turns out our server configuration needs a couple changes. Our application loads its environment config based off of an environment variable. We need to ensure this variable is actually set on the server. We also want to fix our Ansible playbook which fails when run on fresh servers.

What Is an SSL Certificate?

You may have noticed some URLs have the added S after “http.” This means a site has SSL security. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It keeps sensitive information, like social security numbers, credit card numbers, login credentials, or medical records, from being intercepted by encrypting the data while it passes between servers. Now, you might be thinking, if I don’t sell things online then I don’t need SSL security. Think again.