In the real estate world, the mantra is location, location, location. In the network and server administration world, the mantra is visibility, visibility, visibility. If you don’t know what your ...

Zabbix is a powerful and flexible open-source monitoring software solution designed to monitor IT infrastructure's performance, health, and availability, including servers, networks, applications, and ...

Monitoring is worth watching. Data monitoring and measurement are increasingly important for businesses handling huge data workloads. Any business looking to gain genuine insight from the information ...

Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...

The use of open source time series database monitoring has helped a European satellite firm, Open Cosmos, meet a unique challenge: supporting a computer in orbit, where you can’t send an engineer when ...

It’s been an exciting year for IT infrastructure monitoring, especially with regards to open source tools. I figured it couldn’t hurt to end the year with a quick recap of some of the popular ones ...

Although the term "open source" didn’t arrive until the late 1990s, the principle has been around since programming really took off in the 50s and 60s. Early developers shared their code and protocol ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...