Emails from spearhead: what you need to know. Jan 9, 2023 Beat Our business management platform works in ways that may not be immediately clear as to why things are the way they are. Specifically you may receive emails from addresses that contain a Reply-to addre... Read more
Checkmk actions and icons Jun 7, 2022 Two Minute Tips One way to get that "mythical single pane of glass dashboard" is to configure Checkmk with the right integrations and icons. There is generally not one single tools for all of your requirements, rathe... Read more
Reduce Checkmk notifications Jun 6, 2022 Two Minute Tips Notifications or alerts along with just about anything that interrupts whatever you may be doing at that time can be a source of stress. The psychology behind this has been well known and there are t... Read more
Rundeck ad-hoc commands Feb 11, 2022 Two Minute Tips As system administrators and software engineers we are often times required to run a series of commands or scripts across our fleet of systems. Depending on your environment you may have restrictions ... Read more
Tutorial: How to install Checkmk Nov 23, 2021 Checkmk The need to know the status of your IT infrastructure has always been a necessity. The large number of monitoring solutions available today in the market proves this necessity The Checkmk monitoring ... checkmk Read more
IT AUTOMATION WITH CHECK_MK AND ANSIBLE Nov 23, 2021 Checkmk October was a pretty exciting month in regards to Checkmk. We held the first official Checkmk Training in Bucharest, Romania and participated with a 60 minute presentation at the 2ND Checkmk Conferenc... ansible checkmk Read more
Three steps to monitoring and staying sane Nov 23, 2021 Checkmk I’ve been monitoring things for as long as I can remember using a very simple methodology. Being raised in scientific community I had the opportunity to learn at a fairly young age about the scientifc... checkmk Read more
MVM - minimal viable metrics Nov 23, 2021 Checkmk In a previous article [1] , I talked about a couple of steps you could take to reduce the “noise” that your monitoring system may be generating. One of the important things mentioned there is to liter... checkmk Read more
Checmk 2.0 – what’s in it for you? Nov 23, 2021 Checkmk Everything in Checkmk 2.0 feels new, yet familiar. Whether you are a newcomer to Checkmk or a veteran, you will be right at home. The absolutely powerful configuration engine, the event console, every... checkmk Read more
Stress relief, yes please: we’re only a call or email away when you need help Nov 21, 2021 Beat Our mission is to help companies to make sense of all the noise (technology) that is always fighting for their hard earned dollar and attention. We pride ourselves with being pragmatic, avoiding the p... jira Read more
Checkmk best practices for what to monitor and when Nov 21, 2021 Checkmk Lets face it, most IT infrastructures today are more complex and distributed than ever before. It is not uncommon to run on-premise systems, usually in multiple data centers, one or more public cloud ... checkmk Read more