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 ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2013
Sample SAT question: xUnit is to Continuous Integration as what is to automated server deployments?
We've been going through lots of growth here at LogicMonitor. Part of growth means firing up new servers to deal with more customers, but we also have been adding a variety of new services: proxies that allow our customers to route ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
Our digs here at LogicMonitor are cozy. Being adjacent to sales, I get to hear our sales engineers work with new customers, and it’s not uncommon that a new customer gets a rude awakening when they first install LogicMonitor. Immediately, LogicMonitor starts showing warnings and alerts. ”Can this be right ...
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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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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
We got a question internally about why one of our demo servers was slow, and how to use LogicMonitor to help identify the issue. The person asking comes from a VoIP, networking and Windows background, not Linux, so his questions reflect that of the less-experienced sys admin (in this case). ...
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Denise Dubie wrote a recent piece in CIO magazine about "5 Must-have IT Management Technologies for 2010", in which she identifies one of the must-haves as IT process automation. She quotes Jim Frey, research director at EMA: "On the monitoring side, automation will be able to keep up with the ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
We like monitoring. We like Java. Not to slight other languages - we like Ruby, perl, php, .NET and other platforms, too, and like to monitor them, also.
However, unlike most other languages, Java provides an explicit technology for monitoring applications and system objects. JMX is supported on any platform running ...
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
If your infrastructure has to be up at all times (or as much as possible), how to best achieve that? In an Active/Active configuration, where all parts of the infrastructure are used all the time, or in an N+1 configuration, where there are idle resources waiting to take over in ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
It's still surprising to me that hardware and software manufacturers do not seem to value any kind of consistency in their management interfaces. Or maybe it's intentional, to complicate monitoring and management of their systems to encourage the purchase of the vendors own monitoring systems.
In any event, it makes the ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
One question that often arises in monitoring is how to define alert levels and escalations, and what level to set various alerts at - Critical, Error or Warning.
Assuming you have Errors and Critical alerts set to notify teams by pager/phone, and Critical alerts with a shorter escalation time, here ...
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