This is a guest post by James Turnbull (@kartar) The first two guys I worked for in Ops jobs were old school mainframe guys. Both of them were kind of rough around the edges. Both heavy smokers who liked a drink and who been around before there were PCs, thought client-server was a passing fad … Continue reading The State Of DevOps
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Update: LogicMonitor Internals
After using LogicMonitor for almost two months now I've become quite comfortable with it's interface and very secure with it's monitoring. I've been asked by a few folks for some of the more technical details on it's operation which I'll share with you here. Installation and Operation A tarball called agent-linux.tar.gz is available for download … Continue reading Update: LogicMonitor Internals
LogicMonitor: My Virtual SysAdmin
I'd recently ordered a new round of servers and was positively dreading having to setup Nagios & Munin on them. This is where the fact that I'm a "born & raised" developer really shines through. The configuration of Nagios is simply beyond me. No matter how much documentation I read, I just can't get all … Continue reading LogicMonitor: My Virtual SysAdmin
Monitoring OpenSolaris Zones with Nagios
We're running separate zones for web, app, and db servers. To be able to know the health of our application and our servers, we rely on pnp4nagios for graphing performance data like CPU utilization, memory usage, etc. Using OpenSolaris zones, there is only one OS kernel running. This is different in e.g. XEN, where every … Continue reading Monitoring OpenSolaris Zones with Nagios
Behavior Driven Ops, Kanban vs. Scrum and a new upcoming Monitoring and Trending Tool
Testing Dash Metrics with Cucumber (Bradley Taylor) - A short article showing off a Cucumber feature for monitoring with Nagios. Kanban vs. Scrum (Henrik Kniberg) - A great, 26 page long PDF about the similarities and differences between Scrum and Kanban. Absolutely worth reading! Reconnoiter (Theo Schlossnagle) - Theo and his OmniTI Labs are working … Continue reading Behavior Driven Ops, Kanban vs. Scrum and a new upcoming Monitoring and Trending Tool
Test First in Operations at The Build Doctor
Read about my ideas for Test First in Operations at The Build Doctor. Julian Simpson (@simpsonjulian) is "The Build Doctor", or as he states it: Blogger, professional build manager, systems administrator, caffiene addict, dad. We already had the pleasure to publish his great post Partitions and Warfare. Check out Julians posts there. It's worth it!
Monitoring tools essentials: Munin vs. Nagios
When you're running any business critical application, you need to know what's going on with it. Is it up? Does it cause extended load on your servers? Does it have enough disk space left, how fast is the data on the disk growing, etc. To know all that, you need a tool which a) monitors … Continue reading Monitoring tools essentials: Munin vs. Nagios
Getting a Grip on your Operations with Munin
Ever taken a midnight drive down a dirt road without any headlights on? While it's certainly a thrilling (and stupid) thing to do, you shouldn't do it with your data center. But do you know what the load of your web servers were this morning? Could you tell me how many MySQL "slow queries" were … Continue reading Getting a Grip on your Operations with Munin
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