Growing an ops team from 1 founder
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 [...]
How we handle on call schedules
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 [...]
Incident troubleshooting hints with logging
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 [...]
Server Density for iOS updated
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 [...]
Server Density Chrome Application
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 [...]
Announcing agentless monitoring with API 1.3
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 [...]
Announcing remote service monitoring
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. [...]
Building the Server Density World Map
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, [...]
Writing a SQL Server Monitoring Plugin
The Server Density plugin architecture on Windows makes use of DLL’s written in C# by implementing a specific interface as outlined here in the plugin documentation. Rather than build functionality [...]
Server Density improvements
As well as large projects, we like to make ongoing small but important UI tweaks for our server monitoring tool, Server Density. These are usually released as they’re finished with [...]