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Monitoring Baselines: Are They the Same Across All IT Infrastructures?
Monitoring baselines plays a crucial role in identifying and protecting critical components of an IT environment. However, applying a single, uniform baseline across all infrastructures is rarely the right approach. While certain monitoring parameters may appear similar across environments, the real differentiation lies in alerting criteria. Only a limited set of alerts can be universally…
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Extend the Automation of Web-based Applications through API and Browser Developer Tools
Most developers rely only on the official APIs provided by vendors, which might not always include the needed APIs. In this video, we’ll explore how to extend the automation of web-based applications beyond the announced API using browser developer tools. You’ll learn how to: – Inspect network requests and discover hidden API endpoints – Reuse…
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Monitoring Stages, depth, and Maturity levels: Building a Resilient IT Monitoring Framework
The establishment of a well-designed monitoring tool setup in the IT environment is a multi-stage activity that involves a different set of requirements, which goes beyond installing the monitoring tools, initiating discovery, and enabling out-of-the-box features. Below is a breakdown of the key stages: Stage 1: Building the Foundation – Assets Inventory and Environment Awareness.…
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How to choose the best monitoring tool for your IT infrastructure
IT infrastructure operating seamlessly 24×7 with minimal interruptions, downtime, and great customer experience. These have encouraged companies worldwide to obtain remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools to early detect performance degradation and failures. However, the wide variety of options makes it a challenge for many companies to determine the suitable approach. The first question that…
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Monitoring the output of a specific Linux command
If you are in a situation where you check a specific Linux command output to verify if there is a failure in the operation, and you are looking for a way to detect a particular words in the output and alert on it, we will explain the procedure in this article. We will write a…
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Monitor Service Status in Linux using bash script and integrate it with PRTG
If you have critical services running on Linux machine, it is important to monitor their status and ensure they are running. That will also help in minimizing troubleshooting time, as you will know immediately the issue’s cause. In this blog we will monitor Linux service using bash script and integrate it with PRTG network monitor,…
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What is SNMP and How to Use it in IT Monitoring (With Examples)
SNMP is widely used in monitoring networks and many other technologies and applications, check out my video below to learn more about SNMP basics and how to use it in IT monitoring. Video will cover: What is SNMP, SNMP Versions, How does SNMP get the details from the monitored devices, What is OID and MIB,…
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Monitor Event ID in Windows Event Viewer
Many applications log their important events in Windows Event Viewer. Here comes the importance of applying the monitoring of the important events as part of the IT monitoring. Below PowerShell script will help in monitoring the needed event ID along with the path it resides in Firstly, we will get the event ID and the…
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Monitor URL Response Code
Websites availability monitoring is one of the most important things in IT monitoring, as many businesses rely on the websites that deliver their services to the customers. Or there are some internal applications that serves the IT infrastructure and it is website based and its availability is also important. In this post we will go…
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IT Environment’s Performance Monitoring
The advancement of IT made having a monitoring solution a must for all companies. Which represents monitoring the health of all IT aspects of a specific business. For any Line of business service, there will be critical backend assets bringing up this service ready to be used by its consumers. The frequent unplanned service outages…
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