For about a year, my company had been struggling to roll out a monitoring solution. False positives and inaccurate after-hours pages were affecting morale and wasting system administrators' time.

We are soon releasing PushMon, a free monitoring service for scripts, batches and jobs. The basic idea is that cron scripts will "ping" a URL on a regular basis, and will notify the user if this "ping ...

There's an old DevOps story of a developer who, when asked by a member of the ops team why an app isn't running on the live servers, replies "It's just fine on my laptop". To which the only reply is ...

This guide will walk you through a precise method to configure email alerts that trigger only when a specific Windows Service changes state. By combining the filtering capabilities of Windows Event ...