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Zabbix- A Simpler way of Monitoring

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Today, applications have evolved from standalone to the client-server model and ultimately to the cloud-based elastic application. Application performance can directly affect a business, hurting the revenue as customer struggle to complete the process. It’s always been difficult to see what’s going on inside the system. And doing so has become an essential part. Having a good monitoring tool will help us to understand the system status and determine when they are behaving normally and when they are behaving abnormally. When something goes wrong, the tool alerts quickly and then we can act on it and fix it without affecting customers. Zabbix is a well-known tool to do that for you. Why do we need Application Monitoring? Information gathering Large application produces a humongous number of data that should be monitored and analyzed for the performance and improvement of product and thereby better business. Around the clock monitoring Humans will never be able to monitor ea...

Step-by-Step: Connect your AWS and Azure environments with a VPN tunnel

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Recently I’ve been working with a customer that is planning to connect the Azure infra with AWS infra through site-to-site VPN. As their Primary AD server is running on Azure and rest infra in running on AWS. To setup this S2S VPN, To achieve the desired results we create a POC (proof of concept environment) that is composed of the following pieces: ` In this post I will show how created that site to site IPsec tunnel to connect to a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to a Virtual Network in Azure. Using this setup you can have workloads in one or both clouds with full VM to VM connectivity over a secure IPsec tunnel. This easily can provide connectivity for high availability operations. In our case we selected a Windows 2012 R2 server as the end point of the tunnel on the AWS side mostly because it is a supported platform as a  Azure VPN device  for route-based VPN that did not add costs to our POC unlike other supported virtual ...