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DevOps in Desperation - Did Someone Say Ansible?
A visionary DevOps/SRE culture is busy automating away previously manual tasks and building the next generation of applications on novel, software-...
We interviewed a seasoned CEO for his throughts on IT Operations within enterprises.
As customer demands are rising, many VPs and CIOs are finding that IT infrastructure, organizational structure, staffing and culture are impeding...
Don't Monitor Yourself into a Madhouse 2
Done right, IT monitoring provides clarity and promotes operational effectiveness. Done wrong, it can make your staff crazy and limit business growth...
Downsides of Nagios Open Source
Open source attributes labeled as benefits can be deceiving, making it important to properly evaluate the needs and requirements of your business...
Elasticsearch
Several Elasticsearch monitoring tools are designed for system management and maintenance, but only a few make data immediately available in a way...
Elasticsearch Performance Testing Tips
Performance testing recommendations that will ensure Elasticsearch is fully optimized and operating as expected. 
Nagios vs the competion
Every enterprise organization has a unique set of priorities and requirements surrounding the monitoring of its infrastructure.
Cloud Expo Europe
Having just returned to the office from a great couple of days at Cloud Expo at the ExCeL in London, it’s time for reflection and lessons learned.
Exporting Results to Elastic Stack
Opsview Monitor’s Results Exporter lets you send monitoring data to log servers and all kinds of analytics tools and services.
Extending Puppet into your Monitoring Environment
Opsview has introduced the Opsview Puppet Module, which automatically registers compute instances for monitoring within Opsview Monitor. 
Free Monitoring Solutions: Even Simple Stuff is Hard to Monitor
Foregoing monitoring tool updates to ensure continuous solution availability is a bad strategy. The security of your solution will gradually erode.
Free Monitoring Solutions: Hard to Deploy and Manage
Free monitoring solutions can be hard to deploy, configure, and lifecycle-manager in production. What does this mean, exactly?
Free Monitoring Solutions: Hard to Scale
Enterprise hybrid IT estates can have tens of thousands of hosts. That's not the most important aspect in determining monitoring performance...
Free Monitoring Solutions: Hostage Situation
Learning how to use your free monitoring system efficiently; to scope out problems, and triage and solve them quickly puts huge pressure on IT...
Free Monitoring Solutions: Limited Insight
Free monitoring solutions require more coding, more expertise and more manual steps before you can feel confident that basic monitoring is working...
No Alignment with Business Goals
A long-term relationship with your trusted monitoring vendor can help make your organization more adaptable, agile, and effective.
Free Monitoring Solutions: No Throat to Choke
Seems obvious, but one of the greatest drawbacks of free monitoring solutions is that you (mostly) need to support them internally.
Free Monitoring Solutions: Special Snowflakes
If your free monitoring solution confabulation works, congratulations! You've created a "special snowflake." One that you now need to validate,...
Free Monitoring Solutions: Trouble Swallowing
Time is money. And lost time is lost opportunity. So it's a good thing when monitoring helps you do things fast, fast, fast, with minimal errors.