There are two problems that many IT folks will have in their career: In this post, I want to chat about the basics of building effective monitoring in terms of defining problems and recoveries. We're monitoring servers and databases and network switches an...

Many a systems engineer or systems administrator have touted the innumerable benefits of moving beyond the visuals of graphical user interfaces to the time-honored activity of entering text at a command line interface. I'm here to talk about plain text pow...