Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, Monitor It! (part 1 of 2)
10/21/19 If you’ve read my posts for any length of time, you know I sometimes get caught up in side projects. Whether it’s writing an eBook, creating a series of blog posts about c…
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IT Pro Day 2019—It Figures.
09/10/19 Recently, I was building out a demonstration and realized I didn’t have the setup I needed. After a little digging, I realized I wanted to show how to track changes to con…
Using Our Brain (a Reflection on FaceApp and Harry Potter)
07/29/19 The summer is full of important dates, from national holidays to family vacations to birthdays and anniversaries big and small. In a few short days, one such birthday is c…
SysAdmin Day 2019: The Secret to Getting Ahead
07/26/19 Looking back across the months since SysAdmin Day 2018, it’s obvious we’re all dealing with a remarkably different (in some ways exciting, in others, horrifying) IT landsc…
How to Create ACLs
07/24/19 It’s no secret that I have a love affair with all things “monitoring.” I love the tools; I love the basic techniques those tools execute; I love the ways the data can be v…
THWACKcamp 2019 Registration Is Now Open!
06/05/19 Here at SolarWinds, convention season is just beginning to heat up. Whether you’re lucky enough to travel to these shows or are just following our exploits online, you’ll …
What’s Your Data Center Trying to Tell You? Performance Metrics Best Practices
06/04/19 Downtime or subpar performance can cause customer attrition and decreased productivity, leading to lower revenues. Slow truly is the new down, so IT professionals must bec…
Head in the Sand About Cloud: Part 3
03/18/19 In my first post in this series, I introduced an online discussion that sparked a few ideas for me about ways in which some IT professionals have developed poor responses …
Facebook Outage 2019: SysAdmins, Hug Your Servers and Tell Them You Love Them
03/15/19 This week’s Facebook outage is in the news right now, and it’s inevitable that some people are going to rush to post their hot-as-the-surface-of-the-sun takes. Thankfully,…
Head in the Sand About Cloud: Part 2
02/18/19 Last month I started an analysis about an argument… I mean a “passionate discussion” on social media. My goal in this series is to use that conversation as a framework to …
Head in the Sand About Cloud: Part 1
01/30/19 A recent argument on Twitter (“What?!” I can hear you exclaim, “People disagree on Twitter? This cannot be true!”) highlighted for me just how persistent people can be in …
The Cost of Monitoring – With the Wrong Tool
12/17/18 or “It’s not just the cost of buying the puppy, it’s the cost of feeding the puppy that adds up” This is a story I’ve told out loud many times, on conference calls, and ar…