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20Apr
AWS Summit SF 2018 Monitoring Survey
On April 4, 2018, I and 9,000 of my closest IT friends gathered for the AWS Summit SF 2018 at Moscone West. Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, started his keynote by saying that "this a time to learn." Indeed it was, and Moogsoft took the opportunity...
10Apr
SREcon18 Monitoring Survey
SREcon18 Americas happened in Santa Clara, CA at the end of March, and it was teaming with SREs. (Shocker, I know.) A whopping 52.1% of those we surveyed had "SRE" in their title...but beyond the obvious (Site Reliability Engineering), what does SRE really mean? If you don't...
19Mar
Elastic{ON} 2018 Monitoring Survey
Elastic, the creator of Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (this includes Logstash), hosted its Elastic{ON} conference in San Francisco earlier this month, and they rolled out a bunch of new features, among the coolest being: Elastic APM, an extension of Elastic's product stack into application performance. Logstash Azure Monitoring Module,...
27Sep
Atlassian Summit 2017 Monitoring Survey
The Atlassian Summit in San Jose had many big reveals, one of them being the company’s new logo! I'd like to think the logo represents two people high-fiving! ? In the spirit of teamwork, as usual the Moogsoft team conducted our 2017 Monitoring Survey at the Atlassian Summit....
25Sep
VMworld 2017 Monitoring Survey
VMworld 2017 was full of big announcements. The most important of which came when VMware and Pivotal, in collaboration with Google Cloud, unveiled Pivotal Container Service (PKS), "a new product that enables enterprises and service providers to deliver production-ready Kubernetes on VMware vSphere and Google Cloud...
25Jul
Cisco Live 2017 Monitoring Survey
Did you know that Cisco Live 2017 was the largest Cisco Live ever? I believe it. I have to admit, I got lost at least 3 times going to back to the Moogsoft booth. Amid the fidget spinners, giant booths and thousands of Plixer swords (how...
14Jul
Velocity 2017 Monitoring Survey
Two weeks ago, I attended O’Reilly Velocity, the conference that gave us “real-world best practices for building, deploying, and running complex, distributed applications and systems.” My favorite keynote was “The Future Works like People” by Adam Jacob (@adamhjk), CTO of Chef. He distilled and discussed the...
28Jun
Monitorama PDX 2017 Monitoring Survey
Last month, Monitorama held its fifth Open Source Monitoring Conference & Hackathon in Portland, OR. From dealing with a widespread power outage that made the whole conference relocate, to inhaling Blue Star Donuts (#BlueberryBourbonBasil was the best) on the last day, Monitorama was a great event,...
03May