Last week, I considered the implications for multi data center redundancy on your applications. This post will look at considerations for the sysadmin – network and server level failover, plus [...]

A few months ago we finished a long running multi data center redundancy project to allow our server monitoring service, Server Density, to survive the complete failure of our primary [...]

This post is based on a talk I gave at DevOpsDays London 2013 – slides are at SlideShare. In the early days of 2009, it was just me running the [...]

Earlier this month there were a couple of good blog posts (here and here) with some suggestions and considerations for handling on-call schedules. This is something every company has to [...]

You’ve been woken up with an alert and after getting to your laptop the first step is to find out what is going on. Ideally, you have quite specific alerting [...]

Apple has approved our completely revamped iOS app for Server Density server monitoring and it is now available free on the App Store! The app has been rewritten from scratch [...]

Get it here: Server Density Chrome Application. This is my third Random Week with Boxed Ice and it was a blast to get to spend the week in London, but [...]

We’re pleased to announce the release of our server monitoring API v1.3 which includes a new postback method that allows you to send monitoring data through the API without needing [...]

As of today, we’re pleased to announce remote response time and up/down status monitoring of external URLs in addition to the existing monitoring of internal server metrics via our agent. [...]

Every 6 weeks we run a “Random week”. During this time we stop working on our current projects and instead create something different that we think will be interesting/useful/educational and, [...]