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Capacity Planning in a Multi-Cloud Environment

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How to monitor resource consumption and availability to optimize capacity

Capacity planning in a multi-cloud environment is a complex challenge affecting most (if not all) organizations. Cloud based infrastructure has added to the complexity, both in cost and optimization. Organizations must optimize the performance of their hosted applications, but also plan for future growth while justifying cost. This paper focuses on the variables to consider for an effective capacity plan, and explains how monitoring removes the guesswork by providing quantitative data organizations can use to make better decisions about their infrastructure.

For more information see Capacity Planning: Monitoring for Success

Welcome LLD Internacional, S.A.

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New GroundWork Partner

GroundWork welcomes LLD Internacional as a new South American partner!

LLD Internacional, S.A.
2 Calle 2-48 C7 Villas de Picasso
Fraijanes, Guatemala
www.lldsa.com
info@lldsa.com
(502) 5715 5045

GroundWork Partners

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4 Tips To Monitor Modern Cloud-based Applications & Infrastructure

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Modern cloud-based application and infrastructure monitoring is a moving target. And it is one that very much depends on how “native” your cloud application is.

Here is a list of monitoring metrics capabilities you should look for that pertain to time series and events:

1. Some way to track throughput
It can be as simple as counts of requests or transactions processed. This will vary a lot depending upon your use case—do you log requests, transactions, use queues, etc? At a minimum, you should be able to get that data on a fairly frequent basis and then graph it for context. 

2. Storage monitoring
Storage is elastic, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t watch how much is getting stored. Simple errors like forgetting to reset a debug flag on a log can quickly consume many gigabytes. RDS in EC2, for example, can tell you how much data is committed—you should watch for it to peak when you don’t expect it. 

3. Health checks on micro-services
Most frameworks for micro-services are capable of telling you with a simple query whether they are healthy. In the cloud, that’s often available in the API of the cloud services manager. Your micro-services (or meshed services) should be able to check in or be checked, and your monitoring tool should have a way to do that. 

4. A threshold on backlog of transactions
Referring back to #1, it’s not only important to track throughput, but you should also track backlog. It will tell you when you need more resources faster than any detailed measurement from deeper in the apps. 

There are many other monitoring metrics to consider, but these four are the ones that we’ve seen most commonly bite customers as they’ve moved to cloud-based monitoring.

Why Open Source Is Mainstream

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This is a short piece highlighting how open source and enhanced open source software like GroundWork and others (we can use big examples like Atlassian and Cloudera) are now taken as mainstream components for many company toolsets.

There is a concept in selling products that are “sticky,” or that are not easily or cost-effectively changed out. Product categories like monitoring tend to be sticky, in that there is a significant investment in planning and implementation, in technology such as client-side agents to deploy, and significant license cost. All of these make switching to a competing product less likely. Read More

Upcoming Events – Velocity Conference

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GroundWork, Booth 625

June 19–20, 2017: Training
June 20–22, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA

Velocity

Cut through the hype. Find out what you need to know to manage, grow, and evolve your systems. If you’re building and managing complex distributed systems and want to learn how to bake in resiliency, you need to be at Velocity.

View the show schedule

How To Set Up Trend Graphs & Personalize Your Login

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Thank you to our customers for making 2016 another great year. As our holiday gift to you, GroundWork Monitor 7.1.1 is now available for download. We’ll be kicking off 2017 with an in-depth webinar to introduce its features and enhancements. Plus, check out two nifty tech tips on how to personalize your GroundWork login screen and how to set up trend graphs.

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How To Auto-Generate Service Groups

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As 2016 winds down, we want to take a moment to give you a useful tech tip that shows you how to create service groups automatically.

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How To Build SNMP Traps in GroundWork

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This month, we have a tech tip that will show you how to perform SNMP traps with GroundWork. We’re also gearing up for GroundWork Monitor 7.1.1 release. There’s still time to register for our 7.1.1 demonstration on Thursday, October 27th, to learn more about its features. And if you’re looking to improve your monitoring expertise, there’s still one more Sys Admin Training this year.

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