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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
We recently had a customer come into trial looking around for a new monitoring solution. This is always good for us. We love the takeaway. (Customers defecting from other monitoring systems to us.) As in most takeaway situations this customer had specific needs. Now there are the obvious ones in ...
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012
At LogicMonitor we take turns learning from each other in informal sessions. One week it may be developers talking about MySql and NoSQL; or marketing guys talk about lead generation and Adwords, etc. This time we'd arrived on the topic of programming languages, and how there is a trade off: ...
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
So as everyone knows, Amazon rebooted virtually all EC2 instances in December. They emailed people to notify them, but not everyone read the emails, leading to Amazon performing the reboots on their own schedule, with the customers unaware.
For some SaaS companies, this resulted in many hours of downtime. For others, ...
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Saturday, December 24th, 2011
We received some alerts tonight that one Tomcat server was using about 95% of its configured thread maximum.
The Tomcat process on http-443 on prod4 now has 96.2 %
of the max configured threads in the busy state.
These were SMS alerts, as that was close enough to exhausting the available threads to warrant waking ...
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
I was invited to talk to an MSP peer group the other week, and during the presentation, one of the group members who was a LogicMonitor customer described a way they use LogicMonitor to solve a previously hard-to-solve VMWare operational issue.
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Friday, November 25th, 2011
My wife was reading the science journal of UCSB (where she did her Masters degree) and pointed out an article referring to the fact that "a typical server consumes as much energy in a year as an SUV". She then asked how many servers we have....
I found this a bit ...
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
I've talked about this before, but I just read an article about why application performance monitoring is so screwed up, and coincidentally had just talked about it in a lecture I gave to a graduate class at UCSB on scalable computing, so figured it's worth a mention.
The article mentions that ...
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
A more technical article today.
In adding some more Exchange Monitoring we ran into some issues, and solutions, that may help others. Some things in recent Exchange versions can only be monitored by Powershell. (Perfmon, WMI, Powershell, all needed for different versions of Exchange.... I wish they'd make up their mind...)
So ...
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
One of our customer acquisitions recently came about because the company wanted to be assured of their I.T. infrastructure's availability during hurricane Irene. Their datacenter was located in the impact area, and obviously a premise based monitoring could not be relied on to alert them of any impacts, if the ...
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
One way LogicMonitor is different from other NetApp monitoring systems (other than being hosted monitoring, and being able to monitor the complete array of systems found in a datacenter - from AC units, through virtualization, OS's to applications like MongoDB) is that we default to "monitoring" on".
i.e. we assume you ...
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