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 […]
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 […]
Organizations are exploiting new use cases that that require infrastructure outside traditional datacenters and public cloud. The industry refers to these locations as “the Edge”. This is, in turn, producing vast amounts of data at these remote locations and in many cases this data needs to processed in […]
With the advent of public cloud organisations of all sizes are more and more looking to implement the same agile operational models that the hyper-scale cloud providers offer. Following that line of thought, the industry has coined the expression “cloud is not a destination but an operational model”. […]