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Disconnecting Nagios: The Challenges With Running Two Systems

Disconnecting Nagios: The Challenges With Running Two Systems
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Metadata Correlation: The Magic Behind the Math

It’s no secret anymore: metrics are one of the most powerful tools an engineering team can have at its disposal when building modern, distributed applications. From observability to monitoring and from insights to alerting, historical trends and forecasting, metrics and timeseries data have the potential to deliver...
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Launching the SignalFx Customer Community!

Launching the SignalFx Customer Community!
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Analytics in Action: Finding the Right Signal to Alert On

SignalFx is the only real-time cloud monitoring platform for infrastructure, microservices, and applications. Read our blog and keep up on the latest advances in monitoring and alerting best practices.
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A Practical Introduction to Metrics Monitoring: Getting More Value Out of Data with Analytics

As monitoring evolves from static checks towards metrics time series, we gain a rich source of data from which we can extract value. This blog covers CPU utilization.
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Monitoring Docker Containers: How SignalFx Monitors Its Containerized Infrastructure

SignalFx has been running Docker containers in production since 2013. Every single application we manage executes within a Docker container. Along the way, we’ve learned how to monitor our Docker-based infrastructure and how to get maximum visibility into our applications, wherever and however they run...
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Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training

Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training
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Reducing Alert Noise: Rates of Change

Reducing Alert Noise: Rates of Change
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Reducing Alert Noise: Ranges for Firing and Clearing

Monitoring modern infrastructure poses fundamentally new challenges in terms of data volume and velocity. Collecting the metrics emitted by machines is only the first step. To extract value from that data, we need a method of expressing service, team, or business goals against that stream of data...
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Reducing Alert Noise: Transformations and Dynamic Thresholds

Monitoring modern infrastructure poses fundamentally new challenges in terms of data volume and velocity. Collecting the metrics emitted by machines is only the first step. To extract value from that data, we need a method of expressing service, team, or business goals against that stream of data.
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Reducing Alert Noise: Static Thresholds, Durations, and Transformations

Monitoring modern infrastructure poses fundamentally new challenges in terms of data volume and velocity. Collecting the metrics emitted by machines is only the first step. To extract value from that data, we need a method of expressing service, team, or business goals against that stream of data.
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A Performance Analysis of Python WSGI Servers: Part 2

In part 2 of our Python WSGI Server Comparison series, we share our performance analysis benchmarks for the top 6 Python WSGI Servers, and reveal the highest performing Python WSGI Server.
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An Introduction to Python WSGI Servers: Part 1

In part 1 of our Python WSGI Server series, learn what is WSGI and get information on WSGI server types, their framework, and compatibilities
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Monitor Couchbase with SignalFx

SignalFx is integrated with Couchbase, a distributed NoSQL document store that’s specialized for backing web applications using JSON documents. We’ve created a collectd plugin that connects to Couchbase’s statistics API and collects statistics about each Couchbase cluster, node, and bucket.
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Manage detectors with templates and a new API

Manage detectors with templates and a new API
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Monitor Windows With SignalFx

Monitor Windows with SignalFx. SignalFx is now integrated with Windows. We monitor Windows systems using our open-source PerfCounterReporter tool, which makes it easy to collect metrics. Start by downloading and running the PerfCounterReporter installer.
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Sign Into SignalFx With Google

SignalFx is integrated with Google Sign-In. This adds to our integrations with Bitium, Okta and OneLogin. To get started, enable the Google Sign-In integration on the Integrations page and authorize SignalFx to a Google domain that you manage.
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Writing Actionable Alerts

Writing Actionable Alerts
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Intro to Python Frameworks Part 2 – Full-Stack vs. Micro Framework

An overview of some of the top frameworks in each category, the features that make them unique, and the reasons you should put them to work in your next application. First, let’s examine full-stack followed by micro-stack.
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Monitoring ActiveMQ In-Depth

Customers love us for our out-of-the-box integrations and built-in dashboards for services like ActiveMQ. Underneath our no-fuss solutions, SignalFx runs the most powerful monitoring service for modern applications.
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Manage SignalFx Alerts with VictorOps

VictorOps is the real-time incident management platform that combines the power of people and data to embolden DevOps pros to handle incidents as they occur. VictorOps does more than just alerting. It provides teams with a virtual environment where they can prepare for, react to and recover from each incident...