We're trying to pick an apm ... has new relic changed for the better?

Saw that new relic made some changes (about time) to their pricing, integrations w/ OpenTelemetry and Grafana, and better alerting.

I used new relic before, but it has been a few years. Wasn't a fan at the time, but we're thinking about it now. I'm hoping to hear from people that use new relic if these changes are actually a big deal or if it's same old new relic, lol.

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What monitoring tool should I use to monitor the sass services I use?

I want to monitor and receive alerts when the integration whit these services don't work as expected. For example y need to receive an email if we stopped receiving new leads in hubspot, or if our zappier zap stopped triggering.
What are the best tool for this?

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deploying project using Travis Ci and AWS EC2 through ssh

I have a laravel project deployed on AWS ec2 instance and I want to use Travis as CI/CD service but I want to write the .travis.yml script after_success to connect to ec2 through ssh and go to the project directory and pull the project using a git repository. so how can I do this

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Once you identify a code issue, what do you do in order to help developers debug/replicate the issue? Do they look at the issue in production?

Title says it all

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automating terraform

Does anyone have reference to a fully working model of terraform CI/CD.

Looking to identify best practice in automation.
would like to see,

\- security testing

\- code quality

\- unit tests

\- module publishing

Would be great to hear peoples checklists for pipelines too

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Thoughts on Google IT Automation with Python certification program on Coursera

So I'm a former English teacher with a Master's degree in Composition and Rhetoric but for several reasons I want to make a career change. It's not really safe to teach right now because of the pandemic and I'm high risk for complications since I'm pregnant. My husband is killing himself working 2 jobs to make up for my lost income and frankly my income as a teacher was crap. So I wanted to learn a skill where I could make a good salary so my husband doesn't have to work so hard. And dangit I'd like to be capable of earning the kind of salary my husband does (even if it's just 81 cents for every dollar he makes lol). Anyway the fact of the matter is that I'm home full time so there isn't any reason I shouldn't be learning something new in the meantime.

Anyway, over the last year I've dabbled in C#, Go, Unity and Python but haven't quite stuck with anything just yet.

Today I signed up for two certification courses on Coursera. The Google IT Automation with Python specialization and the Google IT support specialization since I have zero background in IT.

Since my only real experience with tech is watching my husband go from IT to Senior Dev in 3 years, I'm not exactly sure what kinds of jobs to aim for when I feel ready to start applying for work. I had seen that a lot of the instructors in my courses were System Admins so I had asked my husband if that's where I should start and he said that I could do something like Cloud DevOps. So I've been doing some research and it seems that one does not simply apply for a devops position. It sounds as if I would need to start in an entry level IT role and work my up into one.

So is my understanding correct? If not could anyone fill in the gaps of what I'm missing? And does anyone have insight in certification programs like the ones I've started? Is it worth the 50-100 dollars a month?

I should add that I have a severe case of ADHD and can't medicate right now because I'm pregnant. So I thought that the structure and community that's built into these courses would be beneficial for my learning needs.

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Build & deploy individual apps from a monorepo

# My Proposed Monorepo Architecture

Monorepo architecture pic

This layout is what I've come up with from reading through tons of articles and being convinced that Nx suits many of our needs where I work. The layout works fine for a company of this size because we need opinionated architecture to keep things running smoothly.

## Goal

I want to achieve isolated development, testing, and deployment while using a monorepo.

I have a few concerns with common workflows that I'm not sure how to approach just yet.

## Questions

Case 1: I want to work only on homepage, how can I avoid having to have the entire mono repo locally?

- I read about how Microsoft solved for this, but we don't have access to Azure DevOps at the moment and I wonder if this isn't solvable in some other way. Also, the open source tool they built requires a platform compatible with it, such as Azure DevOps.
- Are Git subtrees a solve for this? Would my monorepo look like a collection of child repos (subtrees) that, in reality, live in their own repos, and are just declared here for build/deploy reasons? This seems to ruin all the benefits of having a mono repo in the first place.

Case 2: I want to deploy changes I made to the homepage app without having to build & deploy every app in the monorepo. How?
- Is Jenkins able to use Webpack to solve for this and build & deploy only specified apps or changed apps? Even if all of it is in a single repo?

This may be a simple case of not knowing what to search for, but federated modules and monorepos are also relatively new.

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My first month of being a DevOps freelancer

Me sharing the story about my first month of being a freelance DevOps Engineer. Feel free to reach out if you are thinking about doing the same.

https://brennerm.github.io/posts/first-month-of-self-employment.html

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Having trouble deploying SSIS from cloud to on prem

So I am new to devops and I have been playing around with trying to duplicate the existing deployment system that I built myself. I got the SSRS to deploy using a powershell script, however I can't seem to get SSIS deploy to work. I have setup my releases pipeline and my deployment group fine, however it seems that the ispac file needs to reside on the actual server I am deploying on? I have noticed that when I build the project in azure using an agent task, it creates the ispac file in the temporary working folder but the Deployment group job cannot seem to access that file. So I have tried copying the ispac file using the file copy to windows task, but it can't see my server's unc path. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thank you.

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SFTP -> MySQL ETL Service

I have a task that requires grabbing customer csv files from a SFTP server, transforming it, and loading it into a MySQL table.

Looking for suggestions of services out there. Something like stitcherdata but I need to output into a MySQL table.

Not looking to custom code this, we currently do this but we are to the point where we'd like to offload this to a service where it is their core competency.

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Beginner Question, Are there any useful tutorials on deploying simple web apps (that use both client and server) hosted on the Google app engine

I am completely new to the creation of a web apps, and only have a limited amount of experience making small programs in python and java on my local drive.

The webpage needs to pull in stock data from APIs, based on the users selection (keyed into a text box) perform a computation on it using a python script, and display the output of the computation on the webpage.

I am aware that I need client side and server side scripts, from what I have learned so far I need Javascript on the front end and Python on the back end, but thats as far as my knowledge goes, it sounds basic but I'm suffering from an information overload and wondering if someone could point towards some resources on make a web app that can be deployed on GAE for the above criteria?

Its small, its only going to be used by 1 or 2 people at a time, so the simplest solution with least overhead would be the best!


Again really sorry for the beginner question.

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Managing health checks at scale

We used health checks to monitor cron jobs, but it didn't scale, as we had to manually register each job. So I adapted a script from the healthchecks.io maintainer to automatically register the job, and it's been working great.

The article: https://dev.to/15five/managing-health-checks-at-scale-4731

The script: https://gist.github.com/caleb15/1a817ef5e58e8a8caf65190cff33806e#file-healthcheck-sh

Enjoy!

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anyone here have experience with slalom build or simply being a devops engineer/consultant at a consulting firm? Trying to understand the pros and cons

hoping for some insight into slalom build, but otherwise just doing devops in a consulting firm, whether as an engineer or consultant

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Kubernetes cluster diagram

Hi, I'm a system engineer junior, and I'm on my first big project with cloud and k8s. Nowadays I practice those on my local computer, or in the free tier.

I Haven't seen that big clusters, as our production cluster with a lot of namespaces and \~50 pods and services in each other namespace. I want to draw a diagram explained that cluster. I have a tool: draw.io.

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My question is; Are there any tips and tricks or good practices to draw a huge cluster like this? Do I have to draw all different pods and services and deployments? Can anyone show me something like this?

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Flow to send mail when workitem is assigned

Hello i am trying to create a flow which will send a mail if workitem is assigned to any users. The mail will be sent to the one who created the work item or user which mail about the issue

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How to create alerts in ELK

Hi there,

I am aware of x-pack edition of elastic stack comes with the alerting option ? Does the open source edition of the stack ELK provides the option for alerts ? If yes, how we configure alerts in the ELK stack ?

Thanks

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Alerts in ELK Stack

Hi there,

I am aware of x-pack edition of elastic stack comes with the alerting option ? Does the open source edition of the stack ELK provides the option for alerts ? If yes, how we configure alerts in the ELK stack ?

Thanks

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IaC Snippets - Your input would be amazing

We are beginning to provide IaC snippets for common resources like Docker Containers, S3 Buckets, and DynamoDB Tables in Commandeer.

https://docs.getcommandeer.com/blog/latest/introducing-iac-snippets-for-ansible-docker-compose-serverless-framework-and-terraform/

I'd appreciate any input you might have on any ways we can make this beneficial for your day to day work.

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What are your indicators of a system in distress?

When looking at a system, what do you use in consideration to determine if it is in distress? Is it the heap usage? CPU usage?

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Free alternative to Dynatrace Pure Path

Hi,

We use Dynatrace in our project for APM needs and i find the pure path feature really helpful to analyze API or service performance. I was wondering is there a free alternative to check for pure path which i can use to analyze my side projects. I can use Prometheus for basic application monitoring n alerting or micrometer.io to check for my application methods , but is there any open source product where i can view end to end flow n time taken for an api call

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How can Stackoverflow make you a better developer

We all use SO on a daily basis. I’ve found that participating by asking and answering questions to be very effective for my own coding skills. I wrote a short article on why I think you should try it and improve your programming skills.

https://devopsian.net/posts/so-make-you-better-dev/

Would be glad to hear your opinions.

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