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By: Bernd Schubert

June 22, 2023 1:19 pm

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Add more power to Prometheus

A while ago I published this article: https://www.suse.com/c/discover-the-hidden-treasure/ . Today, I would like to share my most recent experiences with you. This post will show you the value collectd can provide for your Prometheus-based observability solution. Let me give you a brief introduction of collectd. Collectd is a daemon that reads various system statistics, […]

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By: Michael Tabron

April 14, 2022 7:41 pm

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How to migrate to SAP applications in the cloud

Increasing numbers of organizations are turning to the cloud to support their SAP applications. The cloud appeals to them for several reasons — it has built-in fault tolerance; it scales easily with demand; and it reduces capital expenditures by offloading the responsibility for hardware support onto the cloud provider. However, moving to the cloud isn’[…]

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By: Sören Schmidt

March 22, 2022 1:46 pm

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The Treasure Hunting goes on: “Collecting saptune Data with Prometheus”

Three weeks ago my colleague Bernd Schubert published a blog post about Discover the hidden treasure. This one is sort of a follow-up and describes, how to use the textfile.collector to retrieve data from saptune. I recommend to read his blog post first, because I'll not explain everything in all details. "Wait!", […]

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By: Bernd Schubert

March 1, 2022 5:22 pm

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By: Michael Tabron

February 2, 2022 3:50 pm

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Webinar: An Innovative Way to Find and Fix Hidden Errors in SAP Configurations

High availability (HA) for SAP systems is essential to maintaining business operations but many system administrators and even system integrators find it complex to implement. The last thing an organization wants is to have a mission-critical SAP S/4HANA or NetWeaver system fail when or shortly after it’s launched. However, this is exactly what has […]

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By: Bernd Schubert

May 25, 2021 3:54 pm

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Treasure hunting or how to have your crazy weekend NOT at work…

Cloud service provider (CSP) deployment wizards and ready2go deployment solutions are state of the art today. The installation of a complete SAP landscape, e.g. with the SUSE Terraform project (please check here), can be done within hours. What you will get is something like in the example picture below. With each new system your […]

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By: Michael Tabron

September 2, 2020 5:08 pm

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SLES for SAP Applications 15 SP2: What’s New and What’s Next

Attention all SAP Basis Administrators and IT infrastructure engineers who are responsible for implementing and managing SAP infrastructures. Are you concerned about the time and effort to move your current SAP landscape to SAP S/4HANA in the cloud? Are you interested in ways to work more efficiently and spend less time on routine maintenance? Is […]

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By: Glen Kosaka

August 1, 2019 12:38 pm

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Container Security Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Today, millions of applications are running in containers, with many millions more going into production.  It is not easy to manage and monitor a massive number of containers in any deployment at the same time. In order to better visualize and track container status, the combination of Prometheus and Grafana provides a simple, easy-to-deploy […]

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By: William Vera

April 4, 2013 10:33 am

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Monitoring TCP connections easier and faster in SLES

License: GPLv3 Problem: Parsing <i>netstat</i> output has always been a pain because of the large amount of data that is available. Sometimes I need some information more than others, but I almost always want to quickly see the total number and type of connection I have. Solution: For […]

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