After It Broke: Executing Good Postmortems
06/19/18 No matter how much automation, redundancy, and protection you build into your systems, thing are always going to break. It might be a change breaking an API to another sys…
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Five Must-dos of Database Performance Management
06/19/18 Here is an interesting article from my colleague Joe Kim, in which he explores database performance management. Databases are complex, multifaceted, and vital to the healt…
When is a Storage System Full?
06/18/18 When designing the underlying storage infrastructure for a set of applications, several metrics are important. First, there’s capacity. How much storage do you need? This …
Choosing What to Monitor – Understanding Key Metrics
06/18/18 Monitoring has always been a loosely defined and somewhat controversial term in IT organizations. IT professionals have very strong opinions about the tools they use, beca…
AI Should Not Replace Established Security Practices
06/18/18 Agencies are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to bolster the United States’ cybersecurity posture. Agencies are dealing with enormous amounts o…
Customizing Logwatch for Sysadmin Needs
06/18/18 Logwatch is essentially a system log analyzer and reporter. It elaborates logs that are simply collected by syslog. This kind of evolution is simplifying the daily job of …
The Complexity Conundrum
06/18/18 The person I mentioned in my last two blog posts was back, and I didn’t even bother asking them why. Honestly, I wasn’t sure whether they were here for the technical descr…
Log Analysis Tools Review: Syslog, Filtering the Most Relevant Events
06/15/18 Who’s passed more than a weekend going almost blind because something in your didn’t work as it should, and it produced, hopefully, thousands of lines of error messages, a…
Bringing Ease of Use and Security to Remote Users
06/15/18 The image of a modern office has been rapidly changing in recent years. From the medical field, to sales, to technical support, users are on the road and working from just…
Managing the Madness: BYOD Network Devices
06/15/18 When it comes to technology, device management resources have come a long way, just as much as the technology in our actual devices has. As a network or systems admin, you…
Six Ways to Protect your Database Backups
06/15/18 I often see forum posts from accidental administrators who want to know how to recover data without a backup. The short answer is, “Now is a good time to work on your resu…
Syslog – The Blue-collar Worker of the Data Center
06/15/18 Striking a balance between good visibility into infrastructure events and too much noise is difficult. I’ve worked in plenty of enterprise environments where multiple tool…