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Dungeon Mastering in IT (Part the Third)

01/25/18 Short-Circuiting your Adventure I’ve noted that preparation and planning are some of the hallmarks of both a good DM and IT professional, but sometimes planning gets short…

Microsoft Workstation Logs – Focus on What’s Important

01/25/18 Can you have too much of a good thing? Maybe not, but you can certainly have too much of the wrong thing. In my first blog, I introduced the idea that Microsoft event logg…

Dungeon Mastering in IT (Part the Second)

01/24/18 This is the second post in a post that started in Part the First. CRIT! Unplanned Good/Bad Randomness is a part of life. This has widespread areas of affect: from human in…

Business Services and their Challenges in Complex Environments

01/24/18 Business services and infrastructure services have divergent interests and requirements: business services are not focusing on IT. They may leverage IT, but their role is …

Key metrics for RabbitMQ monitoring

This article details how to effectively monitor RabbitMQ performance using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's RabbitMQ integration to track key metrics like message rat…

Collecting metrics using RabbitMQ monitoring tools

This Datadog article explains how to effectively monitor your RabbitMQ message broker using Datadog's integration. It details collecting key metrics like message rates, queue lengt…

Monitoring RabbitMQ performance with Datadog

Please provide me with the article! I need the text of "Collecting metrics using RabbitMQ monitoring tools" to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content her…

How Artificial Intelligence Can Lower Service Desk Resolution Times

01/23/18 Though these pieces of functionality are common in consumer products, they can also drastically reduce resolution times from the service desk, creating a better customer e…

It’s Inevitable. Your Database Will Fail

01/23/18 Databases fail. No one can promise 100% uptime, it’s impossible. Whether the database is large, small, on-premise or cloud-based, all have the potential to fail. This coul…

Dungeon Mastering in IT (Part the First)

01/23/18 So, here’s the first confession: I’m an über nerd. I’ve been playing Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) since I was about 16 years old. It was also about that time (possibly coincid…

Finding and Predicting Hybrid IT Issues is like Finding a Needle in the Application Stack

01/23/18 Hybrid IT can create issues for IT operations. Here’s an article from my colleague, Mav Turner, that suggests ways to keep things running smoothly. Trying to find the root…

How to automate Ansible reporting + deployment of the Datadog Agent

This article details how to automate Datadog agent installation on AWS EC2 instances using Ansible. It leverages Ansible's dynamic inventory capabilities to automatically discover …