Category: Artificial Intelligence

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . The healthcare AI stream at the AI Summit in London during June provided a fascinating look at how AI is being used to solve real healthcare problems. Consider some of the meta challenges of healthcare: overwhelming amounts of poorly connected data; the unpredictable nature of sickness and wellness; longer life expectancy; and costs. Now consider some of the strengths of AI: disparate data analysis and prediction and the automation of mundane, redundant tasks. There is perhaps no other field where AI could have such a significant positive impact on outcomes. Two cases discussed at ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger.  Monitoring MongoDB Made easy Maintaining the health and performance of your IT infrastructure can be one of the biggest headaches you face in your time as an IT professional. With so many moving parts it can be nearly impossible to keep track of them all and how they interact with each other making it quite difficult to efficiently and successfully monitor MongoDB. One day you may log into your MongoDB environment and it’s not returning your queries, or you’re not getting the results you expected. Now you have to figure out why this is ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_editor. RabbitMQ is a great tool to have for resilient message passing in your system instead of HTTP calls that can get lost in the void. It also sets you up nicely to drive your systems with events for looser coupling among workflow steps. In this post, we’re going to look at how we can quickly get RabbitMQ up and running when using Google Cloud Platform, also known as GCP. First, we’ll look at what options we have to install RabbitMQ. Then we’ll look at how to run and connect to it. After that, we’ll talk ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_editor. Relational databases have commonly been an essential component of every application. Cloud vendors like GCP have a service for relational databases. GCP’s relational database offering is GCP Cloud SQL, which is a managed service for relational databases similar to RDS from AWS. Traditionally, you had to manage and operate a lot of things when working with databases on-premises. This includes things like installing and configuring the database engine, taking backups periodically, monitoring servers, patching servers, upgrading servers, etc. With a managed service like Cloud SQL or RDS, almost everything is the responsibility of the cloud vendor. Maybe ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. Nature’s long awaited summer update is finally here. While you throw bundles of logs on your summer bonfires, our team has thrown some new log bundles to stoke the  BindPlane for Stackdriver fire. Since its summer we thought we would cook you up some delicious new features for our summer BindPlane Barbecue. Tired of the summer analogies yet? Well better get used to them, they are here to stay for the foreseeable future, just like summer! Now, time for the BindPlane June Update. Log source bundles June was a busy month for the Logs ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Brock Peterson. We recently released our Networking Devices Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations (vROps).  This management pack allows users to monitor any network device supporting SNMP. The vROps adapter connects to network devices via either SNMP v2c or v3 and captures available performance and capacity metrics.  The management pack also relates devices to VMWare ESXi Hosts, providing troubleshooting capabilities between the virtual and network layers. This new management pack is in addition to our industry-leading solutions for Cisco Networking (Catalyst, Nexus, MDS), Arista EOS, and others for vROps.  Our network and firewall related management packs ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. Whether you are a new BindPlane user, or have been using it for a while now, you may have seen or heard of our logs feature. This feature helps integrate your various data sources into Stackdriver Logging, which will let you gain important insights into your data that you may not have had before. Currently, the logs feature only supports sending data to Google Stackdriver, but new source bundles are being added every week. If you are a Stackdriver user, you must be excited to get started on collecting and monitoring your data with ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. Congratulations on your BindPlane activation! Now that you’re officially a BindPlane user, you must be excited to get started on collecting and monitoring your data, but you may be a little unsure where to start. We talk about how easy it is to get all set up, but don’t worry, now we’re going to show you just how easy it really is! This blog will take you through a first time set up for BindPlane metrics. For demonstration purposes, we will be using MySQL as the source, an on-prem Linux system for the Collector, ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_editor. The other day, I visited a planetarium in my city. While the instructor was explaining all the wonders of space, something he said caught my attention: “We learn more about planet Earth by studying other stars in space.” After that, we went on to explore Mars with the telescope—a fantastic experience. In the same way, you can learn more about GCP or Azure if you already have knowledge of and experience with AWS. When I was learning GCP, I was always comparing it to AWS or finding a similarity between the two. AWS was the ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_admin. Extending observability for Stackdriver customers across on-prem and multi-cloud Kubernetes, databases and applications GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. – July 17, 2019 – IT monitoring integration innovator Blue Medora today announced open access availability of an initial 38 log source integrations through its BindPlane log streaming platform, for all Stackdriver customers. This follows the April announcement with Google Cloud to bring to market its Monitoring- Integration-as-a-Service at no additional licensing cost to Stackdriver customers. The managed log streaming capability simplifies extending Stackdriver’s observability to enterprise customer data centers and other public clouds. The addition of log source ... Read More