If you’re using Puppet and you want to automate something other than basic OS configuration, package install or Unix user account management, Puppet Forge is the first place where you want to look. With over 6500 modules, chances are that you’ll find a module or two that automate the very...
Clutch is a US-based B2B market research firm that leverages a one of a kind ranking formula to compare and contrast leaders in a number of service sectors. Clutch researches service providers across numerous sectors and identifies industry leaders by independently conducting verified reviews with the company's clients. The reviews are then...
If you are running or developing any kind of web application, inevitably you will at some point want to send transactional emails or even newsletters. If your application is deployed, or if you plan to deploy your app on AWS, then you are in the right place. We will discuss...
GitLab vs GitHub - which one is better? This is a widespread question, and a source of many debates online. Both of these services offer source code handling and allow developers to control the software development life cycle fully. However, if you’re not familiar with these platforms, you might be...
On Monday, our senior Linux systems engineers Saša and Branko, joined InfluxData’s webinar to discuss our monitoring system. They talk about what we as a company require from monitoring, the tools we used during the last (almost) 20 years and lastly, how we use the InfluxData stack. InfluxData Webinar started with...
As discussed in a previous post, we at Sysbee love HAProxy, and we're excited when new functionalities are added. HAProxy 2.1 introduced the ability to proxy requests directly to an FastCGI application, eliminating the need to pass the request to a web server to do the same thing. In this post, we're...
Continuing on our last blog post Monitoring origins: Where it all began, in this post, we’ll be discussing the most popular monitoring setups currently used by IT technicians around the world. Today, TSDBs dominate the monitoring world. TSDBs are specialized databases designed to store large amounts of time-indexed data. We can say...
Today's monitoring systems have many features to help you get all of the data you need. However, it wasn't always like that; tools were limited, offered no metrics and were hard to deploy and maintain. In this post, we'll take a look at the history of monitoring tools. With almost 20...
In the current global crisis, companies have to cut down costs as much as possible. Laying off employees or overhauling the production process is extremely hard, and not always the best choice. Companies tend to look at non-essentials, where IT infrastructure often falls, especially for non-IT companies. To help you...
Puppet is an open-core configuration management tool that significantly simplifies infrastructure management, especially when sysadmins have to deal with a large number of servers. Essentially, with its declarative language, Puppet allows sysadmins to describe the desired system state in high-level terms - e.g. users, installed packages, enabled services, configuration files, etc. Puppet...
