Datacenter Monitoring and responding to Alerts

Friday, February 18th, 2011

We've talked about this before on the blog a few times, but it's really policies and processes that help make a successful datacenter monitoring deployment. We've collected some of our best practices, from years of our own experience running datacenters, and also from working with a lot of customers, into a ...

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MySQL monitoring, SSDs and failover

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

As those customers that are (normally) housed out of our Boston datacenter know, we had to exercise a failover from East Coast to West Coast datacenter. (Why? Short version - a subcontractor of the colocation provider moved the wrong rack of servers.) So we were confident in our failover - we ...

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