Last week, Floyd Strimling wrote a post on Why Monitoring Sucks, which got a decent amount of attention. While the overall origin of the meme is not that old, the industry paradigms it encompasses and the underlying truths it highlights have been around for decades. Monitoring doesn’t suck more/less than any other IT discipline, it’s .. Read More »

Let’s face it, a “challenging” career within IT has never been a relaxing walk in the park.  Whether it is the pressure of maintaining legacy systems on a shoestring budget, the challenge of learning new technology, the stress of constant outsourcing pressure, the rewards of carrying a pager (yes, a pager), the pleasure of working .. Read More »

Last week, we announced that August is officially Red Hat Month here at Zenoss. Saying that Red Hat has had a stellar year is an understatement; they’ve set a new standard and precedent  for commercial open source businesses in a world of legacy giants. Needless to say that as Red Hat continues to build momentum as .. Read More »

  In my email interview with him, @roidrage (AKA Mathias Meyer) says that most traditional monitoring solutions fail to provide the level of data visibility needed to correlate problems efficiently: I have a hard time pointing fingers here, but you can pick almost any of the traditional monitoring tools, look at screenshots and see what .. Read More »

The #monitoringsucks meme appears to be a response to outdated systems that, according to Jason Dixon, DevOps engineer at Heroku: …do a lot of #@?!, sometimes poorly. And almost always, in a disjointed manner, caused by years of feature creep and parity. Too many moving parts, layers upon layers of antiquated code (and bugs), and .. Read More »

We just completed a very busy week on the exhibitor floor at Cisco Live, demonstrating Zenoss Cloud Service Assurance and talking with attendees. People flocked to our booth to get their picture taken with Zenny the Zebra, but they stayed to talk and share and learn about the needs of their own organizations. I’ve distilled .. Read More »

@lusis seems like a modest guy. If he hadn’t seen my last blog post, he might have forgotten that he turned #monitoringsucks into an organized objective just a little over one year ago. But then he writes in his latest post: I didn’t set out to start a “movement”. I’m not someone who handles compliments .. Read More »