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Extend net-snmp: How to teach an old SNMPd new tricks

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

One of our long time customers, Appfolio, who makes great SaaS property management software, asked how they could use LogicMonitor to monitor the size of some files across their fleet of Linux servers. A simple request, but not as simple as one might hope. Why not? LogicMonitor usually uses SNMP ...

IT Performance Monitoring for The Agile DevOps

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

LogicMonitor is happy to participate in the upcoming DevOps Days meet up in Santa Clara. It is exciting to see how the agile software development movement is bringing development and operations together to promote efficiency. With DevOps constant changes and roles cross-over, it only makes sense you use a monitoring tool ...

Ansible just got way more fun! Join our happy hour.

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

Here at LogicMonitor we love our happy hours, and since we will be speaking at the upcoming AnsibleWorks Fest (or AnsibleFest) we thought of no better way to tie it off than over a drink. Our very own Jefff Behl, Chief Network Architect will be speaking at 5:05pm about the importance of ...

My NetApp is not the problem! A tale of how monitoring the entire stack makes it easier to save the day.

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

Have you ever been the guy in charge of storage and the dev guy and database guy come over to your desk waaaaay too early in the morning and before you’ve had your caffeine and start telling you that the storage is too slow and you need to do something ...

If a software release improves performance, and no one is there to measure it – do I still get a raise?

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013

One thing we frequently say is that you need to be monitoring all sorts of metrics when you do software releases, so you can tell if things degrade, and thus head off performance issues. You need to monitor not just the basics of the server (disk IO, memory, CPU, network), ...

What the heck is CPU load on a Linux machine and why do I care?

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

Seriously, I said that to myself.  In all reality I had a basic understanding of the concept of CPU load on a Linux server, but there were a few things I learned recently and I figured I’d share with the world. I think everyone knows that if you run the top ...

Cedexis Uses LogicMonitor for DevOps Measurement

Monday, May 20th, 2013

Continuous cloud server and application monitoring is essential to Cedexis, a SaaS firm that manages hosts in over 50 different countries around the globe to provide their industry leading Cloud Benchmarking and Cloud Load Balancing solutions. Cedexis prides itself on looking at performance data in unique ways to get a grasp ...

LogicMonitor London User Group 2013

Monday, May 20th, 2013

  LogicMonitor is coming to London for our Annual UK User Group this Wednesday, May 22nd from 12-3PM. We will be meeting at Smith's Bar & Grill, which is located just around Paddington Station, we have the place reserved till 3 but you're invited to hang out for however long you'd ...

Monitoring as an acceptance-test for configuration management tools

Friday, April 12th, 2013

As Devops Borat says:  "To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops." The safety catch to this is good monitoring. We demonstrated this to ourselves this morning.  We did a software release on some of our servers last night. This particular release involved ...

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 ...