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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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Monday, August 29th, 2011
One of the great things about LogicMonitor's hosted monitoring is the support we can offer. Because we are hosted monitoring, customer can choose to grant our support staff access to their accounts so we can help them directly; they can chat with an engineer in their portal, or they can ...
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
Recently we rolled out a new release of LogicMonitor. Among the many improvements and fixes that users saw, there were also some backend changes to the Linux systems that store monitoring data.
The rollout went smooth, no alerts were triggered - but it was pretty easy to see that something had ...
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Friday, July 1st, 2011
There was a good article on techtarget this week about the hesitancy of IT pros to adopt SaaS. The main gist of the article was that SaaS is coming, even into the IT space. Which we here at LogicMonitor heartily agree with. We've seen much greater acceptance to SaaS as a ...
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