Kubernetes keeps increasing in popularity and not just in public cloud. It keeps making inroads into the on-premises market. This is creating the need for automation. In many Kubernetes environments you tend to find developers using CI/CD pipelines not just for their applications code for the Kubernetes objects […]
There is no question Microsoft Teams is everywhere these days. Many IT teams use it to collaborate on projects or even day-to-day tasks. On the other hand engineers like to know what their automation solution is doing. Therefore, sending notifications is a very welcome addition to most automation […]
In this tutorial we are going to use a practical example to show you how to use the ServiceNow REST API. I personally find ServiceNow has great online documentation but I like to see some examples to understand how other people are using it. This is the motivation […]
Part of my job is to demonstrate the Red Hat OpenShift integration with Dell Technologies’ portfolio. Most of the time I repurpose my OCP infrastructure and re-install the cluster. This means using the same Bastion host to manage the new OCP cluster. There have been a couple of […]
Dell EMC CloudIQ combines proactive monitoring, machine learning, and predictive analytics so you can take quick action and simplify operations of your infrastructure. Earlier we had written a few blog posts on CloudIQ features, you can find them here. In the latest update, CloudIQ has released the support […]
In the previous blog article we explained how to use the DellEMC PowerStore REST API to extract metrics. In this article we are going to use those skills to create a Prometheus exporter for PowerStore and some useful dashboards in Grafana This article will cover the following topics: […]
In this blog post we are going to cover how to use DellEMC PowerStore’s REST API to get performance metrics. This skill is very important if you are planning to integrate PowerStore with a monitoring solution. In particular we will use this knowledge to create a Prometheus exporter […]
This is part 2 of a small series we started to show some techniques that allow us to build a hierarchy of dashboards with Grafana. In the first part we learnt how to create links both at the panel and at the dashboard level. In this article we […]
It took a while to decide the title of this post but I am still unsure whether it conveys the purpose of the post. The point is that we all start our Grafana journey by creating some cool graphs in a dashboard, but after a while we typically […]
Grafana has become a very popular tool for monitoring systems and applications partly due to the amount of features and integrations it provides. The graphs it produces are beautiful. However sometimes you need to show a string or a value instead of a full graph. For that purpose […]