Wondering whether good service can compensate for a bad product, and how the answer depends entirely on context and stakes
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Does service matter? 1 min read#serviceIgal A memorial for Igal Koshevoy and a plea to check in on people in our community who may be struggling with their mental health
Puppet and OpsGenie Releasing a Puppet report processor that pushes notifications of failed runs to Opsgenie using a customer API key and recipient list
Puppet and StatHat Releasing a Puppet report processor that ships per-host metrics like changed resources and config retrieval time to StatHat
The LogStash Book released! Announcing the release of a book on deploying log management with LogStash, available as PDF, ePub, or Kindle edition
Monitoring Sucks - A Rant Why Nagios and its kin fail virtualised and cloud environments, and why a fresh paradigm is needed to handle the new scale
The LogStash Book sample chapter available A free sample chapter is now available covering how to get logs into LogStash without using the LogStash agent