1010, 2016

CloudMonix is now a part of Azure Marketplace!

By |October 10th, 2016|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features, News & Press|3 Comments

CloudMonix makes its debut in the Azure Marketplace!

Effective immediately, Azure customers can sign up and purchase CloudMonix monitoring and automation platform thru the Azure Marketplace.  Subscribing to CloudMonix thru the Marketplace gives users ability to log into CloudMonix directly thru the Azure portal.  Teams will also appreciate simplified billing experience, as payments for CloudMonix will be handled […]

2109, 2016

Latest features available in CloudMonix (Fall 2016)

By |September 21st, 2016|Cloud Monitoring, General, IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

Major CloudMonix features released over the summer
New monitoring/automation support for

Azure Stream Analytics
Azure Media Services
Azure (and non-Azure) Redis Cache
Azure DocumentDb
Azure File Storage
SQL Server databases
MySQL databases
Oracle databases
JSON/XML API endpoints

New integrations with 3rd parties systems

Autotask
Nagios XI
Zabbix
Zapier

Finally, users can now configure their CloudMonix monitoring setup via a […]

1205, 2016

How to monitor free disk space on Azure VMs

By |May 12th, 2016|Azure How To, Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, General, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Monitoring disk usage is one of the most basic and critical tasks that Azure administrators should always be doing.  Filled to capacity disks cause major outages.

This article will show how CloudMonix will notify users when their Windows servers run out of disk space.  We will also discuss simple ways to automatically cleanup disks when space runs out.

New […]

2103, 2016

Top SQL Server MVP’s to follow on Twitter

By |March 21st, 2016|General, IT Management|5 Comments

Microsoft MVP’s are exceptional, independent community leaders who share their passion, technical expertise, and real-world knowledge of Microsoft products with others. The awarded are people who “actively share their … technical expertise with the different technology communities related directly or indirectly to Microsoft”.
To recognize MVP’s that are awarded for their untiring passion to help people around […]

302, 2016

Azure Resource Manager API in CloudMonix

By |February 3rd, 2016|General, IT Management|0 Comments

At CloudMonix, we typically release new features very frequently, on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.  The slowdown in the recent few months marks an exception, as the team has been working on exceptionally involved and architecturally significant features: enterprise single-sign-on (SSO) and support for Azure Resource Manager (ARM) API.

By February 1st, 2016 these and other corresponding features […]

1211, 2015

The Ultimate list of Top SQL Monitoring Tools

By |November 12th, 2015|Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Platforms, IT Management|23 Comments

SQL Monitoring tools help monitor, optimize and automate day to day database administration and management operations.  They provide database administrators, designers and engineers with knowledge and power to optimize their database systems for optimal business performance in diverse, complex production environments.

Whether your needs are for on premises, cloud or hybrid database infrastructures,  SQL Monitoring Tools can […]

3010, 2015

What is Azure Service Bus?

By |October 30th, 2015|Azure Glossary, Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

What is Azure Service Bus?
Azure Service Bus is referred to the cloud based middleware message queuing service provided by Azure Cloud Services Platform. Azure Service Bus enables communication between devices, applications and services – on cloud, on premises or both.

 
How is Azure Service Bus used?
Azure Service Bus is primarily designed to help developers connect different applications and […]

2810, 2015

What is Azure API Management and how it used?

By |October 28th, 2015|Azure Glossary, Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

What is Azure API Management?
Azure API Management is a reliable, secure and scalable way to publish, consume and manage API’s running on Microsoft Azure platform.  Azure API Management provides all essential tools required for an end-to-end management of API’s.  It ensures optimal performance of the API’s, tracks and enforces usage, authentication, and more.

 
How is Azure API […]

1609, 2015

What is Cloud Monitoring?

By |September 16th, 2015|Azure Glossary, Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Cloud Monitoring is referred to the process of supervision of cloud hosted data, virtual machines / server, databases, applications and or complete cloud based IT Infrastructure. Cloud Monitoring is primarily delivered as SaaS based cloud monitoring software / solution/ platform and might also include vendor provided or manual cloud management and monitoring processes and policies. […]

1609, 2015

What is Cloud Monitoring as a Service?

By |September 16th, 2015|Azure Glossary, Cloud Monitoring, IT Management|1 Comment

Cloud Monitoring as a Service is referred to a type of on demand IT service that provides cloud monitoring and management tools for monitoring cloud based platforms, websites, servers, IT Infrastructure etc. Cloud monitoring as a service provides a fully managed cloud monitoring service for cloud and virtualization environments in organizations.

Typically, cloud monitoring as […]