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Bring syslog into Dynatrace using OpenTelemetry to get open source value with enterprise support

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Getting insights into the health and disruptions of your networking or infrastructure is fundamental to enterprise observability. Syslog is a protocol with clear specifications that require a dedicated syslog server. We also provide security updates and patches to critical vulnerabilities that may arise in the components.

Open Source

Open Source Infrastructure Network Government

Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. To be clear, we are rock-solid in our stance that MongoDB is not open source.

Open Source

Open Source Programming Database Servers

Monitoring Web Servers Should Never Be Complex

DZone

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you run several web servers in your organization or even public web servers on the internet, you need some kind of monitoring. If your servers go down for some reason, this may not be funny for your colleagues, customer, and even for yourself. Introduction. For that reason, we use monitoring tools.

Monitoring

Monitoring Servers Hardware Open Source

Exploring MySQL Binlog Server – Ripple

Scalegrid

MAY 22, 2020

MySQL does not limit the number of slaves that you can connect to the master server in a replication topology. If the data churn on the master is high, the serving of binary logs alone could saturate the network interface of the master. Ripple is an open source binlog server developed by Pavel Ivanov.

Servers

Servers Transportation Database Availability

Introduction to KVM, SR-IOV, and Exploring the Advantages of SR-IOV in KVM Environments

DZone

MARCH 20, 2024

It allows physical servers to serve as hypervisor hosting machines ( VMs ). Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine.

Virtualization

Virtualization Hardware Open Source Storage

Monitor Your Servers With Cockpit

DZone

APRIL 30, 2020

I needed basic information on RAM, CPU, Disk, Networking, and I/O to assess the performance bottleneck for the serve. " I was in the search for a straightforward tool that shows me hardware "VM" metrics and allows me to check the logs without ssh into the VM and ideally tool should be Open Source.

Monitoring

Monitoring Servers Hardware Open Source

What is cloud application security?

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

Cloud

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring

DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. Version control system and source code management with end-to-end DevOps platform and cloud-hosted Git services.

DevOps

DevOps Engineering Testing Open Source

Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part III: Patroni

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

It is an open-source tool suite, written in Python, for managing high availability of PostgreSQL clusters. Standby Server Tests. Reboot the server. patronictl list did not display this server. Master/Primary Server Tests. Reboot the server. Patroni for PostgreSQL. Test Scenario. Observation.

Availability

Availability Servers Network Open Source

What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

But managing the deployment, modification, networking, and scaling of multiple containers can quickly outstrip the capabilities of development and operations teams. This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles. How does container orchestration work?

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud

The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. OpenTelemetry, the open source observability tool, has emerged as an industry-standard solution for instrumenting application telemetry data to make it observable. OpenTelemetry is a free and open source take on observability.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache

Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

The complexity of such deployments has accelerated with the adoption of emerging, open-source technologies that generate telemetry data, which is exploding in terms of volume, speed, and cardinality. Extend your topology mapping to include open-source observability data.

Analytics

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture

Leverage automated and intelligent observability for OpenTelemetry for Go with Dynatrace PurePath 4

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Organizations that want a high-performance language with a great ecosystem for their applications often use Golang , an open-source programming language. Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data). TCP Server. // Start TCP server.

Traffic

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud

What is vulnerability management? And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. For example, an attacker could exploit a misconfigured firewall rule to gain access to servers on your network.

Traffic

Traffic Java Network DevOps

What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe. Dynatrace news.

Internet

Internet Internet Games Java

How PHP Web Development Beneficial For Online Business?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

It is a server-side scripting language that is highly secure, open-source, and versatile. Mostly, web servers are created with PHP. In PHP, code is directly executed on the server and generates HTML to send to the client. PHP is an open-source programming language that allows businesses to use it for free.

Development

Development Ecommerce Open Source Website

Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part II

Scalegrid

MARCH 12, 2019

In Part II, we’re introducing you to an alternative open source tool, Replication Manager from 2ndQuadrant, to be closely followed by Part III where we dive into our third alternative, Patroni by Zalando. When a server is configured, it needs to be registered with repmgr using repmgr primary/standby register command.

Availability

Availability Servers Open Source Database

Database Housekeeping in the New Year

Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

If you replicate from one server to the next, are you replicating what you need? Take some to check how the server is being accessed, as you do not want a project to use the root access for all queries. I do not miss the days of the monthly planned server shutdown for vendor hardware maintenance from the days of yore.

Database

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System

ScaleGrid Fully Managed Hosting for Redis™ Now Available on Azure

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This management solution for Redis™ allows startups up to enterprise-level organizations automate their Redis™ operations on Microsoft Azure dedicated cloud servers, alongside their other open source database deployments, including MongoDB , MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Azure

Azure Availability Open Source Virtualization

How to Monitor MySQL Deployments with Prometheus & Grafana at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

JANUARY 3, 2020

Prometheus is an open-source software application used for event monitoring and alerting. The MySQL Exporter tool can be installed locally on a MySQL server or centrally on the Prometheus server. Remember to edit the line: Environment=”GOMAXPROCS=1 by replacing 1 with the number of **vcpus** on your server.

Monitoring

Monitoring Metrics Servers Database

From Proprietary to Open Source: The Complete Guide to Database Migration

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Advantages of migrating to open source For many reasons mentioned earlier, organizations are increasingly shifting towards open source databases for their data management needs.

Open Source

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy

MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. Hint Hint, ProxySQL helps.

Performance

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database

Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Our Dedicated Hosting plans are all-inclusive, including all machine, disk, and network costs, as well as 24/7 support. MongoDB is the #3 open source and #1 NoSQL database in the world. See performance tests to determine the impact of the Meltdown CPU kernel patch on your MongoDB servers. Dedicated Hosting. Learn more.

Azure

Azure AWS Database Latency

Why Web Developers Choose PHP For Great Website Development?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

PHP is a popular server-side programming language due to its simplicity of use, vast functionality, and robust community support. PHP is also used to build and run popular social networking sites like Tumbler, Facebook, MailChimp, and Digg. Regarding command-line and server-side scripts, PHP is easy for users to understand and use.

Website

Website Development Open Source Database

Open Source Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Even though open source software is firmly in the mainstream, used widely by businesses, governments, and everyone who owns a cell phone or computer, the question repeatedly arises: “Is open source software safe?” Is open source software as stable as other software? Our bar is higher than that.

Open Source

Open Source Software Software Social Media

A Quick Peek at MySQL 8.0.34 and MySQL 8.1.0

Percona

JULY 27, 2023

is an evolution of the MySQL server and related software. The statements include ALTER TABLE, ANALYZE TABLE, CACHE INDEX, CHECK TABLE, CREATE INDEX, CREATE TABLE, DROP INDEX, LOAD INDEX, OPTIMIZE TABLE, REPAIR TABLE, TRUNCATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, and any open cursors. Do you have suspicious group replication servers showing up?

Servers

Servers Open Source Tuning Cache

Exploring MySQL 8 Priority-Based Error Log Filtering

Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Percona Distribution for MySQL is the most complete, stable, scalable, and secure open source MySQL solution available, delivering enterprise-grade database environments for your most critical business applications… and it’s free to use! Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

Database

Database Open Source Tuning Traffic

Kubernetes: Challenges for observability platforms

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

After applying the first manifests (which are likely copied and pasted from a how-to tutorial ), a web server is up and running within minutes. Some examples are the network (switches, routers), storage systems (especially when using thin provisioning ), and virtualization infrastructure. Possible solutions.

Virtualization

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud

How to collect Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Prometheus is an open-source software toolkit used for event monitoring and alerting. This means Dynatrace isn’t collecting the metrics on the Prometheus server, but directly at the source of truth – the exporters. What is Prometheus? How to collect Prometheus metrics.

Metrics

Metrics Infrastructure Open Source Database

Optimizing Server Management With HAProxy’s Advanced Health Checks

DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments. When traffic to a website or application increases, HAProxy can seamlessly bring more servers online to handle the load.

Servers

Servers Traffic Games Open Source

Use Physical Backups With MySQL InnoDB Redo Log Archiving

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, since backup speed and compactness are important for busy, important databases, Percona’s open source physical backup solution – Percona XtraBackup (PXB) , takes into account all these aspects and benefits MySQL world with its exceptional capabilities! Your MySQL connection id is 10 (X protocol) Server version: 8.0.33-25

C++

C++ Servers Storage Speed

Should You Keep Your Business Logic In Your Database?

Percona

JULY 31, 2023

Open source database architects usually do not implement business logic in their databases. Now part of this stance in the open source world is that there was a lack of tooling for business logic in the past in the MySQL universe. This is in stark contrast to many commercial databases where this is a common practice.

Database

Database Open Source Servers Code

A Brief Guide for Configuring Nagios

DZone

AUGUST 9, 2019

Nagios is an open-source network monitoring software which was released under the GPL license. With more than 1 million users worldwide, it has an active community that provides free support and hundreds of add-ons developed by this community. installed.

Open Source

Open Source Network Cloud Monitoring

The Future of Performance Testing

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

But there is an opposite trend to use several layers of different frameworks and libraries which nobody fully understand and what is actually sent to the server remains unknown unless you use recording (or reconstruct it from a detailed log). Make scripting easier (and maintain the existing scripts) is utmost importance here.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Testing Performance Testing Tools

Catchpoint Buys WebPageTest – How the Acquisition Affects the Webperf Community

MachMetrics

JANUARY 13, 2021

Founded in 2008, Catchpoint states that its mission is to “help companies advance the digital experience of their customers and employees” They offer a suite of products such as synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, endpoint monitoring, and network insights. Source: Catchpoint. Will WebPageTest remain open source?

Open Source

Open Source Network Speed Engineering

TTP-based threat hunting with Dynatrace Security Analytics and Falco Alerts solves alert noise

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Attack tactics describe why an attacker performs an action, for example, to get that first foothold into your network. Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events.

Analytics

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure

MongoDB Monitoring With Percona Alerting in PMM

Percona

JUNE 27, 2023

GF_SMTP_HOST: Host address of your SMTP server. GF_SMTP_PASSWORD: Password for SMTP authentication GF_SMTP_SKIP_VERIFY: When true, verifies SSL for the SMTP server. docker network inspect bridge -f '{{range.IPAM.Config}}{{.Gateway}}{{end}}' GF_SMTP_USER: Username for SMTP authentication.

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Database Servers

Percona Toolkit – A Quick Introduction to Summary

Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. And did I mention they are open source?!

Cache

Cache Database Virtualization Servers

No need to compromise visibility in public clouds with the new Azure services supported by Dynatrace

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Azure Virtual Network Gateways. Our customers have frequently requested support for this first new batch of services, which cover databases, big data, networks, and computing. The Azure MySQL dashboard serves as a comprehensive overview of your MySQL servers and database services. Azure DB for PostgreSQL. Azure HDInsight.

Azure

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization

Thinking About Power Usage and Websites

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

There are two images sitting on a server, a large one and a small one. The less across the network, the less electricity. making a network request over and over) rather than something event-based like web sockets? Energy source used by the data centre 4. The testing code is open source. Imagine images.

Website

Website Energy Storage Efficiency

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing. Resetting Connections. Blocking VPNs.

Website

Website Internet Internet Performance

USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance

Performance Latency Hardware Storage

Who will watch the watchers? Extended infrastructure observability for WSO2 API Manager

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In response to this trend, open source communities birthed new companies like WSO2 (of course, industry giants like Google, IBM, Software AG, and Tibco are also competing for a piece of the API management cake). Is it the WSO2-AM gateway itself, a networking issue, a sudden increase in demand, or something else entirely?

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Latency Metrics Analytics

What’s New in Percona Toolkit 3.5.6

Percona

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This partially happened, and we are testing Percona Toolkit with Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 docker run <TOOL NAME> <OPTIONS> For example: $ docker run --network="host" percona/percona-toolkit pt-online-schema-change > h=127.0.0.1,P=12345,u=msandbox,p=msandbox,D=test,t=t1 on all supported platforms now.

Operating System

Operating System Programming Open Source Testing

Bring syslog into Dynatrace using OpenTelemetry to get open source value with enterprise support

Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Trending Sources

Monitoring Web Servers Should Never Be Complex

Exploring MySQL Binlog Server – Ripple

Introduction to KVM, SR-IOV, and Exploring the Advantages of SR-IOV in KVM Environments

Monitor Your Servers With Cockpit

What is cloud application security?

DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part III: Patroni

What is container orchestration?

The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability

Leverage automated and intelligent observability for OpenTelemetry for Go with Dynatrace PurePath 4

What is vulnerability management? And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference

What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

How PHP Web Development Beneficial For Online Business?

Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part II

Database Housekeeping in the New Year

ScaleGrid Fully Managed Hosting for Redis™ Now Available on Azure

How to Monitor MySQL Deployments with Prometheus & Grafana at ScaleGrid

From Proprietary to Open Source: The Complete Guide to Database Migration

MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Why Web Developers Choose PHP For Great Website Development?

Open Source Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?

A Quick Peek at MySQL 8.0.34 and MySQL 8.1.0

Exploring MySQL 8 Priority-Based Error Log Filtering

Kubernetes: Challenges for observability platforms

How to collect Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace

Optimizing Server Management With HAProxy’s Advanced Health Checks

Use Physical Backups With MySQL InnoDB Redo Log Archiving

Should You Keep Your Business Logic In Your Database?

A Brief Guide for Configuring Nagios

The Future of Performance Testing

Catchpoint Buys WebPageTest – How the Acquisition Affects the Webperf Community

TTP-based threat hunting with Dynatrace Security Analytics and Falco Alerts solves alert noise

MongoDB Monitoring With Percona Alerting in PMM

Percona Toolkit – A Quick Introduction to Summary

No need to compromise visibility in public clouds with the new Azure services supported by Dynatrace

Thinking About Power Usage and Websites

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Who will watch the watchers? Extended infrastructure observability for WSO2 API Manager

What’s New in Percona Toolkit 3.5.6

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