For about a year, my company had been struggling to roll out a monitoring solution. False positives and inaccurate after-hours pages were affecting morale and wasting system administrators' time.

If your data center houses Linux servers, you'll be glad to know there's an easy way to monitor those machines. Jack Wallen shows you how with the help of nmon. If you make use of Linux in your data ...

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? This the classic query designed to place your mind into the Zen-like state known as the silent mind. Whether or not ...

Watching your home lab grow from a modest single-server setup to a dedicated experimentation and self-hosting workspace can feel extremely gratifying. Besides adding extra computing prowess for your ...

“By tracking server metrics using Logentries, we can proactively monitor and assure ongoing performance and uptime of our business critical systems,” said Doug Miller, CEO, Brightworks Group. “We are ...

How to connect a new host to Zabbix monitoring server Your email has been sent Jack Wallen shows you how to add a remote server to the Zabbix monitoring system, so you can keep track of all your data ...

You are a business intelligence manager. Your employees rely on your business intelligence service being online with the latest data when they arrive at work in the morning. You need to know if ...