Requirements for Selecting Effective Samples From an Event Stream
03/18/16 There are good and bad ways to select a sample from a stream of events. Depending on how you do it, the resulting sample might be biased or incomplete in various ways. In …
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Understanding Your SQL Server Monitoring: Part 3 – Memory (RAM)
03/03/16 In this series, I’ve tried to help you see the importance of SQL Server® monitoring, and also understand what that monitoring is telling you. So far, we’ve looked at how s…
Is Threat Intelligence For Me?
03/02/16 “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” –Stephen Hawking Search for the term “threat intelligence” and you’ll get 12.3 million hits. Not all of them are relevant…
Active Directory Monitoring
02/24/16 Active Directory, commonly known as AD, can be considered the heart of the IT infrastructure. It holds user account information, computers and servers, provides authentica…
Troubleshooting Exchange Issues
02/24/16 Now that you’ve configured monitoring and alerting for your applications, what are you going to do with the knowledge you’ve gained? Using some of the data that you receiv…
Drinking from the Firehose: How SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor Compresses its Metrics
02/23/16 Sometimes, when working with a top-of-the-line monitoring tool, having access to the best possible visibility, granularity, and reliability is simply not enough. Sure, tho…
Understanding your SQL Server Monitoring: Part 2 CPU
02/05/16 Welcome back. Last time we met, I reiterated the importance of a good SQL Server monitoring solution, and not just monitoring, but monitoring intelligently. We also went o…
Daily Monitoring of Microsoft Exchange
02/05/16 Email is the lifeline for almost every business in this world. When email is down businesses cannot communicate. There is loss of productivity, which could lead to dollars…
Understanding your SQL Server Monitoring: Part 1 Storage
02/05/16 As IT professionals, our main mission is to keep applications running successfully. Each application is judged by end-users, using different factors. Exchange is considere…
Application Monitoring: From Fire Fighter to Psychic Powers
02/04/16 As IT professionals, we have all been there, the dreaded help desk call “Is email down?” (Replace with any business critical application). One of the worst things we deal …
Anomaly Detection for Monitoring – A New eBook
01/27/16 We’re excited to share Anomaly Detection for Monitoring a new, free eBook written by Preetam Jinka and Baron Schwartz. In the eBook, published in collaboration with Ruxit …
Improving Data Privacy in 2016
01/26/16 January 28 is Data Privacy Day (DPD). Observed since 2008, DPD brings awareness to the importance of data privacy and protection. According to the Verizon 2015 Data Breach…