Archive for February, 2013

LogicMonitor User Group in Los Angeles March 7

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

One week from today, we'll be in downtown LA for our first LogicMonitor User Group on March 7 (rsvp online). Our fearless founder Steve will be presenting our latest releases and talking through our API's and new functionality such as Netflow and some roadmap ideas.  You'll also get the chance to ...

A tale of two metrics: Windows CPU or vCenter VM CPU

Monday, February 25th, 2013

A not uncommon question from our customers, or even from our own support people, is "Why does monitoring a Windows system running on VMWare report different CPU data than monitoring the virtual machine from the ESXi host? The ESX monitoring must be wrong!" For example, here is LogicMonitor graphing the CPU ...

Puppet monitoring: how to monitor the success or failure of Puppet runs

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

This post, written by LogicMonitor's Director of Tech Ops, Jesse Aukeman, originally appeared on HighScalability.com on February 19, 2013 If you are like us, you are running some type of linux configuration management tool. The value of centralized configuration and deployment is well known and hard to overstate. Puppet is our ...