What to Consider in a Full-Stack Monitoring Solution
In the DevOps space, there are various tools available for monitoring. When building a full-stack monitoring solution, however, selecting the right monitoring tools and designing monitoring based on IT operations’ needs is a critical decision. Design Considerations for Implementing a Full-Stack Monitoring Solution The following are some of the key design considerations while implementing full-stack […]
Benefits and Drivers of Full-Stack Monitoring
As organizations undergo digital transformations, there is increasing need to modernize the way IT operations is managed and to deliver applications faster, while at the same time delivering business value by managing applications’ availability, performance and outages in a cost-effective way. Because outages have a huge impact on revenue, there is a growing demand for […]
Monitoring Your Data Center Like a Google SRE
Back in the early ’00s, when Google was beginning to expand its portfolio of services beyond search, it encountered a combination of challenges. Some of these emerged from familiar, classic disconnects between developers and operations folks or between IT services and line-of-business owners. Others were brand new, never-before-seen failure modes that arose from providing services […]
Why One Second Matters for Today’s Application-Centric Businesses
A lot can happen in a second, especially if your business is digital. Google receives 68,000 search requests. Amazon averages $2,361 in sales. In this application-centric world, those are just examples of what application outages can cost the business. Imagine if you didn’t even know there was a problem for just one minute. Sixty seconds […]
SolarWinds Aims to Democratize Monitoring
In a move that has the potential to significantly expand the number of organizations embracing DevOps, SolarWinds announced it has expanded its IT management cloud service to include an integrated application and infrastructure monitoring offering dubbed AppOptics. Pricing for AppOptics starts at $7.50 per host per month. In addition, SolarWinds has updated Papertrail log management […]
CA Technologies Extends DevOps Push
At its CA World 2017 conference this week, CA Technologies moved to tighten the integration between the various elements of its DevOps portfolio acquired over the last year and unveiled CA Digital Experience Insights, an analytics-infused monitoring tool delivered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. The company also announced an instance of the CA Microservices Gateway […]
Top 5 Best Practices for DevOps Monitoring
Today organizations are required to deliver on higher levels of customer satisfaction for their online services. Many, however, are forced to support these initiatives with an interrupt-driven approach as they react to fix things after they break. However, for a more proactive approach and to manage expected high levels of SLAs, organizations can opt to […]
Finishing the Pipeline: Monitoring, Tools, Automation and …
It is true that DevOps has grown to be the beast in the room. I’ll co-opt the “cloudwashing” term to call it “DevOps-washing” because it seems every tool you’ve ever used to develop and deploy applications now has a DevOps angle to it. For example, the Jenkins update center is kind of overwhelming. While I […]
AIOps: Managing the Second Law of IT Ops
Or, why IT systems keep breaking The tension between the two halves of DevOps is long-standing, going back long before the term was even invented. What underlies the split between Development and Operations is a fundamental difference, like an actual physical law. Let’s explore that analogy together. IT Ops is fundamentally a constant fight against […]
4 Ways to Give DevOps Teams the Support They Need
If it weren’t hard enough for IT infrastructure teams to innovate and keep the lights on, a host of technologies designed to drive efficiencies are introducing new levels of complexity across the data center. Virtualization, cloud computing, software-defined storage and digital are making it much more difficult for the infrastructure team to control, manage and […]
Site Reliability Engineering: How to Make the Operations Side of DevOps Actually Work
The DevOps movement often has been accused of focusing too much on the first half (Development) and not enough on the second half (Operations). Certainly there has been more attention paid to deployment of payloads than to operating running systems, leading to the dismissal of the handover between Dev and Ops as “throwing it over […]
The Top 10 Reasons to Use Cassandra
The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice of database if you are looking for scalability and high availability without compromising performance for your mission-critical applications. Additionally, Cassandra’s support for replicating across multiple data centers is best-in-class, providing lower latency for users and the peace of mind of knowing that you can survive regional outages. […]
Predictable Progress: Tracking DevOps Maturity Metrics
As DevOps methodologies continue to evolve, we’re naturally seeing an increased emphasis on the cultivation of related maturity metrics. For instance, in the 2016 State of DevOps Report, researchers with DORA took an initial stab at creating relevant ROI measurements. Similarly, a new report issued by researchers Coleman Parkes, sponsored by CA Technologies, offers additional […]
Top Reasons to Use Node.js
When considering the architecture of a new web app, it might be a good idea to include Node.js in the discussion as a key part of that architecture. Node.js could provide you with additional speed, can be used on numerous platforms and has an active community from which to get modules and other assistance. What […]
Assembling the Key Components of Continuous Delivery
As agile methodology was popularized at the start of last decade, engineering teams gained the opportunity to begin producing software in shorter cycles, while releasing it reliably at more frequent intervals. This concept garnered greater attention in 2009, when Tim Fitz published his thoughts on continuous deployment. By the time Jez Humble authored his seminal book, […]
12 Tips for Managing Your Multi-Cloud Environment
No single cloud vendor has the perfect solution for your unique business situation. The only way to maximize the benefits of cloud services to your business is by dealing with several cloud providers and monitoring all of them simultaneously. That’s the IT equivalent of singing an aria while standing on your head and scrambling eggs. […]
Datadog Monitoring and JIRA Integration
Operations uses monitoring to provide early detection of issues with systems/servers/networks. Among those monitoring options is Datadog, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud service/application monitoring tool that allows Operations to be notified of issues with their applications in near-real time. Development teams, meanwhile, use JIRA to track tickets and manage overall agile development. But what if your […]
Taming 2 Cloud App Performance Enemies
Whenever you hear the words “the network’s slow today,” or, even worse, “the network’s down,” you know somebody miscalculated. It may have been the person who decided to buy the wrong hardware, or maybe the one who signed up the wrong telecom provider. Often, that slowdown or outage was the result of somebody underestimating server […]
Alerts Keep DevOps Teams Responsive, in Sync
Continuing our five-part series on “Continuous Monitoring: The Role of DevOps and APM,” this blog post will talk about how alert notification can help DevOps teams be more productive and agile. Amid the constant, rapid change and fluidity typical in DevOps organizations, there are some undeniable absolutes. These absolutes, present at each stage of the […]
Putting Ops Back in DevOps
What Agile means to your typical operations staff member is, “More junk coming faster that I will get blamed for when it breaks.” There always is tension between development and operations when something goes south. Developers are sure the code worked on their machine; therefore, if it does not work in some other environment, operations […]
Datadog Expands Monitoring Solution Across Stack for Microsoft Customers
The leading cloud-monitoring service Datadog announced their latest integrations with Microsoft Azure Resource Manager and Microsoft Azure SQL Database Datadog agent allows customers to seamlessly monitor their stack, from cloud hardware down to custom metrics for their application July 11, 2016 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Datadog, the essential monitoring service for dynamic […]
Iterative Indicators: Measuring DevOps ROI
It’s well-established that application of ROI measurements to IT investment remains an imperfect science, and the same goes for ongoing adoption of DevOps methodologies. The fuzzy math of vendor-driven ROI calculators aside, even the most respected industry watchers have long struggled to create concrete parameters for assessment of technology spending. This, in large part, has […]