How will Debian 7 end of life affect me?
On 31st May 2018, Debian 7 “Wheezy” reaches end of life (EOL). We recommend that you update to Debian 9 “Stretch”. Over time technology and security evolves, new bugs are fixed and new threats prevented, so in order to maintain a secure infrastructure it is important to keep all software and systems up to date. […]
Turning Prometheus data into metrics for alerting
As you may have seen in previous blog posts, we have a Warboard in our office which shows the current status of the servers we manage. Most of our customers are using our new alerting stack, but some have their own monitoring solutions which we want to integrate with. One of these was Prometheus. This […]
Replacement Server Monitoring – Part 3: Kapacitor alerts and going live!
So far in this series of blog posts we’ve discussed picking a replacement monitoring solution and getting it up and running. This instalment will cover setting up the actual alerting rules for our customers’ servers, and going live with the new solution. Kapacitor Alerts As mentioned in previous posts, the portion of the TICK stack […]
Replacement Server Monitoring – Part 2: Building the replacement
This is part two of a three part series of blog posts about picking a replacement monitoring solution, getting it running and ready, and finally moving our customers over to it. In our last post we discussed our need for a replacement monitoring system and our pick for the software stack we were going to […]
Replacement Server Monitoring – Part 1: Picking a Replacement
As a company primarily dealing with Linux servers and keeping them online constantly, here at Dogsbody we take a huge interest in the current status of any and all servers we’re responsible for. Having accurate and up to date information allows us to move proactively and remedy potential problems before they became service-impacting for our […]
Congratulations Jim Carter
We are very pleased to congratulate Jim Carter on completing his Linux Systems Apprenticeship. Jim now holds… City & Guilds Certificate in IT Systems and Principles City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in IT Professional Competence We are even more pleased that Jim has chosen to continue his career with Dogsbody Technology as a permanent […]