305, 2017

How to effectively manage multiple environments in CloudMonix

By |May 3rd, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, IT Management|0 Comments

 

IT Organizations that need to maintain and monitor multiple environments (i.e. Production, Dev, QA, Staging, etc.) for systems that they develop, can use CloudMonix’s Accounts feature to effectively organize and separate their environments.

By creating multiple Accounts within a single CloudMonix Subscription, users can get the following benefits:

Data separation per environment
Easy User and […]

305, 2017

Send CloudMonix data to Zabbix or Nagios XI

By |May 3rd, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, IT Management|0 Comments

Zabbix and Nagios XI are popular enterprise-level solutions for monitoring large numbers of applications, servers, VMs, and network devices in real-time. However, at this time, they lack native Azure monitoring capabilities.

If your organization is using one of these tools, you can configure CloudMonix to send raw metrics data to them. Azure metrics collected by CloudMonix […]

305, 2017

Import data collected by CloudMonix into your own SQL database

By |May 3rd, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, IT Management|0 Comments

Relational databases such as SQL Server or SQL Azure, come with a number of powerful analysis tools that allow creating visualizations and complex reports often without a need for programming.

CloudMonix provides a convenient integration for organizations that need to develop custom reports or visualizations of the data it captures. Raw metric data can be […]

305, 2017

Receive and manage CloudMonix notifications in Autotask

By |May 3rd, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, IT Management|0 Comments

Autotask is a popular IT Management Platform that provides visibility and central control to daily operations. It comes with built-in best practices aligned with ITIL guidelines. Autotask is a powerful and very flexible tool,  it can be customized to fit even the most complex processes in large organizations.

API integration to AutoTask allows CloudMonix to automatically […]

105, 2017

Receive and manage CloudMonix notifications in ManageEngine

By |May 1st, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus is a popular IT management software that provides great visibility and central control over issues to ensure no downtime operations. It offers efficient workflows following ITSM best practices, extensive reporting, and smart automation features.

CloudMonix provides a convenient integration for organizations using on-premise or cloud versions of ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, that creates or […]

105, 2017

How to automatically pause and resume Azure SQL Data Warehouse to optimize costs

By |May 1st, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud-based data warehouse-as-a-service available on the Azure platform. The massively parallel processing architecture allows distributing query computations over a large number of nodes, which ensures results are obtained very efficiently even for large volumes of data.

 

However, SQL Data Warehouse can be an expensive resource. The exact price depends […]

105, 2017

How to auto-scale Azure SQL Data Warehouse to optimize costs

By |May 1st, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud-based relational database that can efficiently process large data volumes using scale-out capabilities of the Azure platform. The storage size in Azure  SQL Data Warehouse is adjusted independently of the compute power, which offers a great flexibility and allows to fine-tune the usage based on the demand.

The costs of […]

1704, 2017

How to monitor and restart crashed Windows Services?

By |April 17th, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Windows Services are critical components of many IaaS systems running in Azure cloud or on-premise. Processes like SQL Server or IIS run as Windows Services. Moreover, organizations often rely on custom-developed Windows Services to perform important background tasks.

In this article, we’ll show you how to monitor and automatically restart crashed Windows Services using CloudMonix. If […]

1404, 2017

Root Cause Analysis with CloudMonix’s Historical Dashboard

By |April 14th, 2017|Azure How To, Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

To discover what caused production issues or to understand why a particular alert was raised, you need to conduct a Root Cause Analysis (RCA). An effective RCA session allows you to fix problems quickly and ensure that systems operate smoothly. However, in today’s complex cloud environments you might have to investigate many connected components before […]

1004, 2017

Support for monitoring and automation of Azure VM Scale Sets and Service Fabric

By |April 10th, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, General, Microsoft Azure, New Features, News & Press|0 Comments

In April of 2016, Microsoft released Azure VM Scale Sets (VMSS).  Referred by many, as the successor to Azure Cloud Services, VMSS service provides management of multiple ubiquitous load-balanced Virtual Machines as a single logical unit.  This is especially useful for compute workloads, such as worker pools or web farms comprised of multiple servers doing […]