Every automation project starts with a clear goal, but the interesting part almost always shows up later. This is the story of how a synthetic monitoring test case on Microsoft Dynamics AX did exactly what it was supposed to do, and how that success eventually created a problem that only further automation could solve. It’s…
Read MoreRarely has a title been more fitting: Transform metrics into alerts. It’s not just a description of what the system does – it’s also the exact name of the Elastic tool that makes it possible. Transforms, in their technical meaning, are the component we use to do precisely this: take a continuous stream of raw…
Read MoreIntroduction Managing Elasticsearch effectively – especially as environments grow in size and complexity – can quickly become a challenging task. Performance tuning, identifying the true root cause behind slowdowns, and optimizing resource allocation often demand specialized expertise and a significant investment in time. In enterprise ecosystems, where observability underpins critical services and reliability expectations are…
Read MoreA customer recently asked me to monitor their access points. Currently, they had no monitoring system for their 100+ access points other than a firewall view showing the status of individual access points. The firewall in question was a Fortigate 660e. I checked, and we already have an NEP that performs monitoring for Fortinet, which…
Read MoreWith NetEye version 4.42, we’re excited to introduce a clustered solution for MariaDB – MariaDB Galera – designed to enhance the high availability of all NetEye services. This improvement significantly increases the reliability of services that depend on the database, such as Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2, Grafana, Keycloak, and others. Thanks to this new…
Read MoreStarting in January I was offered the following challenge: Help customers use their NetEye system differently, that is, help customers exploit the potential of our system to move from a use that’s strictly related to monitoring to one more oriented towards the security arena, that is, creating a system in-house that can help them implement…
Read MoreA customer recently asked me to monitor printer logs. His use case was to check which users were doing the printing, and what they were printing on the company’s printers, including their page numbers. The printers in question had SNMP available, but didn’t provide this particular information. In addition, the printers didn’t have an API…
Read MoreMy colleague Daniel has already described a concrete case in which he used ES|QL. Moved by curiosity I decided to attend an Elastic webinar on ES|QL, and I discovered some interesting things that I’d like to share with those of you who like using Elastic. Elastic provides several possible ways to do searches. Current query…
Read MoreIt’s really easy now to activate OTP on your personal account with NetEye with our new authentication method. In the latest 4.38 version of NetEye we’ve introduced a new product to manage authentication (documentation here). In the future thanks to this new product we’ll be able to define the various actions that each user can…
Read MoreIn this blog post I’m abandoning advice and tips on our software suite for once and moving on to show you an important best practice that we recommend to all our customers for their servers. But what do you do for laptops, which are our primary work tool? I didn’t think much about it…. While…
Read MoreAt the beginning of the month we released NetEye version 4.37 that contains Elastic Stack 8.14.3. Every version update of Elastic has both improvements and additions. To see all available integrations in NetEye, click on the screenshot here: As you can see the changes range from cloud integration, to ticketing, to not forgetting security, networking,…
Read MoreA customer last week asked me to implement the following use case: When a production PLC device (programmable logic controller) goes offline, any associated service must be automatically switched off, since it needs to connect to the PLC in order to exchange data from the source server, and for that the PLC must be active….
Read MoreBeginning with NetEye version 4.26, Alyvix has been fully integrated into NetEye. Currently Alyvix within NetEye is implemented as the neteye-alyvix module, and is part of our Application Performance Monitoring (APM) world. We have Elastic with all the functionality of traditional APM, and then for synthetic monitoring we have Alyvix. In the past few weeks…
Read MoreTogether with the NetEye 4.21 release, we also released NEP (an abbreviation that stands for NetEye Extension Packs) and now it’s possible to install it using the RPM present in the Official NetEye Repositories. If you are interested in this topic, I invite you to look at how these NEPs have been set up. The…
Read MoreWe were recently asked how to dynamically monitor folders with Icinga. Several of our clients monitor folders whose names change from day to day. For example, suppose every day I want to see if there is a file named with the date of that particular day, or I’d like to see if there is a…
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