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Case Study: High-Availability SLAs with GroundWork

December 11, 2020

Amoeba Networks & GroundWork Monitor Enterprise

The Challenge

Amoeba Networks’ customers have on-premise and cloud infrastructure that cannot be allowed to go down under any circumstances. For this reason, the team at Amoeba holds themselves to an almost impossible standard of excellence. Through the use of strict, high-availability Service Level Agreements (SLA) they give “ their customers peace-of-mind that their systems will always be up and running. Their monitoring software is a critical piece of their operations because even a couple of minutes of downtime per year would break their SLA…

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Application Monitoring with the Prometheus Client and GroundWork Monitor

October 20, 2020

Prometheus

Prometheus is a popular open-source systems monitoring and alerting project. The project is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, joining in 2016 as the second hosted project, after Kubernetes. In this blog, we will demonstrate how to implement Application Performance Monitoring (APM) using the Prometheus GoLang client libraries API and de-facto standard data transport model to feed monitoring metrics into the GroundWork Monitor 8 server. Since we are doing application performance monitoring, this article will have coding examples.

Prometheus has become a very popular instrumenting library for measuring application performance in microservices, especially in Cloud Native applications. Typical measurements in microservices are instrumented on application end points, measuring request count and response time metrics. 

Before we get started writing code, let’s introduce the Prometheus metrics basics.
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How to install GroundWork Monitor 8

September 29, 2020

Got 7 minutes?

This video, just 7 minutes long, demonstrates a GroundWork Monitor 8 installation.

For this demo we perform a new install for a standalone type installation on a Linux server with Ubuntu 18.04, and have decided on the hostname ip-10-4-50-199.gwos. This install starts out with some system preparation, proceeds to install Docker, and then prepares and runs the GroundWork Installer.

Before you begin your own installation, please refer to the full installation documentation on the GroundWork Support portal. You will need to follow important instructions for all sections including Pre Install, Install, and Post Install.

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