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Exoprise
We help you find and fix issues with your cloud apps fast. Exoprise is the leading solution provider for monitoring SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce.com and more.
Sematext
Monitoring, log management, transaction tracing, and real user monitoring. Finally together!
NiCE IT Mgmt
From databases to servers, communication systems, operating systems and custom applications, NiCE provides the right application monitoring solutions and services.
Monitive
Monitive is an uptime monitoring service, where users sign up and input their website address, which we check every minute, from a random location around the world, and instantly notify them when their site is down.
EventSentry
EventSentry is an award-winning Hybrid SIEM which features real-time log, system health and network monitoring to proactively monitor networks and preemptively respond to threats.
ManageEngine
ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 90+ products and free tools cover everything your IT needs, at prices you can afford.
Raygun
Raygun is a Software Intelligence Platform that gives companies visibility into software problems. Errors, crashes and slow loading pages and scripts affecting end users are automatically detected, enabling teams to build excellent user experiences.
Guide: Upgrading EKS with Terraform
New Kubernetes versions are released multiple times per year, and you must upgrade your EKS cluster periodically to stay up to date. In this blog post we will go over the steps required to safely upgrade your production EKS cluster managed by Terraform. At Blue Matador, we use Terraform to manage most of our AWS infrastructure, and our EKS cluster is no exception. We use the eks module, which provides a lot of functionality for managing your EKS cluster and worker nodes.
The change-maker's guide to pitching your project idea
This is it! This is the project you’ve been waiting for. The one that’s going to define your career and challenge you and totally transform “the way things are done around here.” The project your team will point to five years from now as the inflection point that ushered in a new era of awesome. If, that is, you can get the project approved, prioritized, and properly resourced.
A Manifesto for SCOM Success 5 steps to achieve SCOM success
At SCOMathon 2020, SquaredUp Founder & CEO Richard Benwell shared his top 5 tips for SCOM success in the APAC Keynote: A Manifesto for SCOM Success. We’ve put it together in this article in case you missed the talk.
KubeCon EMEA 2020 Booth Demo
This is the demo from Rancher Field Engineer Sheldon Lo-A-Njoe for KubeCon EMEA 2020, in which he demonstrates the cool things you can do with K3s, a bunch of Raspberry Pi SBCs and Chaos Engineering.
From VMware to Charmed Openstack
Over the last decade, organisations have started virtualising their IT workloads and migrating from legacy monolithic infrastructure to cloud environments. Many choose VMware as a provider for their virtualised infrastructure. However, because of the costs associated with VMware licencing, support and professional services, many are not able to meet their primary goal - significantly reduced TCO. In search of alternative solutions, organisations have recently started exploring other platforms such as OpenStack.
Introducing CFEngine Compliance Reports
Compliance reports allow you to create custom, high level reports, based on company or regulatory requirements. You can test the beta version today, either in CFEngine 3.16, or by using the nightly packages.
User Experience platform at a fraction of the cost: germainAPM
germainAPM platform allows teams to quickly and cost-effectively lower churn rates and improved user experience. germainAPM monitors and improves User Experience, Process and Technology Performance, in real-time, 24x7. germainAPM is often used to fill-in the gaps of other major APM/BPM/DEM/automation platform since it is so flexible and customizable. Some of the greatest features that germainAPM offers: User Replay feature, Automatic Root-Cause Analysis of issues, Distributed Transaction Tracing, Business Process monitoring/insight, Alerting, Proactively Issue Detection, Automatic Issue Resolution, Tuning Recommendations.
Knowledge Management: An ITSM Lifeline to Connect Remote Employees
Knowledge management is a cornerstone of IT service management (ITSM). It provides technical guidance, steps to best troubleshoot issues, and in some cases an outlet to expand on tribal knowledge. Not only can knowledge content help drive self-service and employee empowerment, aiding in case deflection, but it can also serve as an extension of your organization’s culture.
5 Ways to Improve On-call Management (So Nothing Falls Through the Cracks)
Your enterprise has IT team members “on call,” so you can get immediate support with downtime, outages, and similar issues. That’s why streamlining on-call management may dictate your IT team’s success. Bonus Material: Advanced Escalation Example PDF To understand why, consider what will happen if a network or system crashes but IT team members cannot quickly and effectively communicate with one another.