Troubleshooting server performance and application monitoring – a real example.

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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Complexity doesn’t belong in your datacenter.

Friday, January 29th, 2010

When designing infrastructure architecture, there is usually a choice between complexity and fault tolerance.  It's not just an inverse relationship, however. It's a curve. You want the minimal complexity possible to achieve your availability goals. And you may even want to reduce your availability goals to reduce your complexity (which ...

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