Monitoring and Observability Resources for Engineers

Azure AD Connect: The Trouble With Expired Passwords

Password expiration is tricky with using Azure AD Connect, but a new tool, Pass Through Authentication, will bridge the gap between cloud and on prem password policies.

August 26, 2017

by Sam Cogan

· 17,360 Views · 2 Likes

10 Tips for an Effective Monitoring Strategy

Learn essential monitoring strategies to gather information on user experience, align metrics with business, and compare performance with competitors.

August 20, 2017

by Dawn Parzych

· 12,342 Views · 5 Likes

Announcing log4j-aws-appenders

This new homebrew project will help append your Log4j logs to prep them for CloudWatch, giving you more visibility into EC2 apps.

August 17, 2017

by Keith Gregory

· 16,769 Views · 6 Likes

Managing Secrets With KMS

Password strength and security is an all important aspect of keeping your data secure. Learn how dev teams can use this AWS service to encrypt/decrypt passwords.

August 15, 2017

by Keith Gregory

· 15,365 Views · 2 Likes

Serverless: AWS HTTP Gateway — 502 Bad Gateway

If you're running into 502 errors when making HTTP calls with Lambda, make sure you read the manual and are returning maps.

August 15, 2017

by Mark Needham

· 15,980 Views · 3 Likes

Configure Bitbucket Webhook to Trigger Jenkins Builds on AWS EC2

In this tutorial, learn how to trigger Jenkins builds on an AWS EC2 machine with each code commit in your BitBucket repository.

August 4, 2017

by Ajitesh Kumar

· 18,830 Views · 3 Likes

Run Process Debug Tools in Containers, But Install Nothing

Learn how to debug your processes in containers using the tool of your choice, without having to install the tools. Here you'll find three container debugging methods.

August 2, 2017

by Denny Zhang

· 9,653 Views · 2 Likes

AWS System Blueprint for a Startup

Considering a mobile start-up? Then let's see how AWS's cloud infrastructure can help you with your messaging and scaling needs.

July 28, 2017

by Gaurav Gupta

· 17,775 Views · 24 Likes

Akka Monitoring: Telemetry OpenTracing

This look at Lightbend's OpenTracing displays how you can monitor and trace your Akka actors and visualize that data with Zipkin or Jaeger.

July 27, 2017

by Hugh McKee

· 8,736 Views · 5 Likes

Azure Resource Policies (Part 1): Built-In Policies

RBAC is fine for basic access, but Azure's resource policies give you fine-tuned control with what users can do with that access.

Updated July 25, 2017

by Sam Cogan

· 5,347 Views · 2 Likes

Running Code With Spring Cloud Function on AWS Lambda

Spring Cloud Function is here! Let's get a simple function working with the serverless titan that is AWS Lambda and API Gateway.

July 22, 2017

by Gyula Lakatos

· 51,498 Views · 27 Likes

Faking Azure AD Identity in ASP.NET Core Unit Tests

Unit testing ASP.NET apps that use Microsoft Azure AD usually means working with an authenticated user. Here's how to make one for your tests.

July 21, 2017

by Gunnar Peipman

· 5,430 Views · 1 Like

How to Use Grafana to Monitor JMeter Non-GUI Results - Part 2

In this article, you'll learn a few easy ways to monitor your JMeter results using Grafana, an open-source analytics and monitoring tool.

July 19, 2017

by Yuri Bushnev

· 20,780 Views · 2 Likes

Building Serverless on AWS Lambda

Here we see the benefits of serverless computing when deploying APIs to the cloud, focusing on AWS' offering, Lambda, working with other services.

July 14, 2017

by Piotr Mińkowski

· 10,286 Views · 9 Likes

Hooking Up MuleSoft and AWS, Part 1: Amazon Athena

In Part 1 of this AWS/Mule tutorial series, learn how to integrate Amazon Web Services' Amazon Athena with flows in MuleSoft.

July 10, 2017

by Yasir Siraj

· 9,623 Views · 3 Likes

Quick Tip: Debug XmlSerializer Errors

Serialization and deserialization can be a bit of a black box. We look at how to find out what's happening during the serialization/deserialization process.

July 4, 2017

by Jonathan Danylko

· 5,971 Views · 1 Like

Monitoring DC/OS Nodes and Containers With cAdvisor, InfluxDB, and Grafana

Learn how to install and configure a DC/OS monitoring stack with cAdvisor, InfluxDB, and Grafana to gather, export, store, and display detailed metrics.

June 30, 2017

by Fernando Sanchez

· 5,704 Views · 1 Like