Monday, March 19th, 2012
When monitoring a NetApp, the thing that matters is (for most applications) the latency of requests on a volume (or LUN.)
Easy enough to get - with LogicMonitor it's graphed and alerted on automatically, for every volume. But of course when there is an issue, the focus changes to why there is ...
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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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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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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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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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