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Do I need to install the Developer tools in order to use Iceberg?

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Do I need to install the Developer tools in order to use Iceberg?

applicationPackaging replied the topic: Re: Do I need to install the Developer tools in order to use Iceberg?
With the introduction of Iceberg 1.2, it is no more required to install the Developer tools. If you prefer to use the SplitForks tool instead of the goldin tool, you still need to install the Developer tools.

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Application Packaging-Joining within 15days(Job Scheduling tools)

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FROM: dwilma@magna.in

This is Wilma from Magna InfoTech.
Greetings from Magna InfoTech!!!!!
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About Magna Infotech:
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We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest.

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Excelling Opportunity in Open Tools Admin

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FROM: skeerthi@magna.in

You have navigated on to the job posting space of India’s leading, ISO certified, 2000 plus IT Contractual Staffing Company – Magna InfoTech! I bet you are aware that Magna has been recognized by key IT majors for revolutionizing the IT staffing business in the country.

As you scout for an interesting opening through the World Wide Web, we welcome you and would guide you through the appropriate, challenging and exciting career opportunity that matches your skill sets and exposure.

You may like to check the current opening that has emerged at our end, thanks to the rapid growth recorded.

Skill sets : CA Harvest, Requisite pro, HP Quality Center or HP Performance Center, Solaris, Linux, Windows, Networking
Role / Designation : Senior Analyst
Years of Experience : 4 Yrs – 10 Yrs
Job Location : Bangalore

Interested? Want to give it a try? If yes, then please mail your updated profile to skeerthi@magna.in

For more details on the Company, log in to www.magna.in

Good luck!

Regards,
Keerthi Shetty
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#13 and 14 8th cross|2nd Main
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What are the alternatives of SonarQube for Code Quality Management?

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Alternate of SonarQube for Code Quality Management tools?

There is not a popular known alternate of SonarQube and Reasonable is definitely dominating the Software Quality management domain in terms of open source category. But you may try following tools depends on the use and project requirements.

 

JSHint (Java Script Only)
JSHint is a community-driven tool that detects errors and potential problems in JavaScript code. Since JSHint is so flexible, you can easily adjust it in the environment you expect your code to execute. JSHint is open source and will always stay this way. It is a program that flags suspicious usage in programs written in JavaScript. The core project consists of a library itself as well as a CLI program distributed as a Node module. This tool used in software development for checking if JavaScript source code complies with coding rules
More Info can be found here – http://jshint.com/about/

 

HPE Fortify
HPE Fortify Software Security Center enables any organization of any size to automate any or all aspects of a successful SSA program. Part of the family of HPE Enterprise Security Products, HPE Fortify Software Security Center is comprised of industry-leading products, solutions, and features that address the complete spectrum of your application security needs.

 

HPE Fortify Software Security Center can help you:
– Address immediate security issues in software you’ve already deployed.
– Reduce systemic risk in software you’re developing or acquiring from vendors.
– Meet compliance goals for internal and external security mandates.
– HPE WebInspect Real-Time
– Interactive vulnerability review and management
– Advanced web services security testing
– HPE WebInspect Trend Reporting
– Refined and simple usability
– Actionable remediation and compliance reports

 

Coverity
Synopsys Static Analysis (Coverity®) is an accurate and comprehensive static analysis and Static Application Security Testing (SAST) platform that finds critical defects and security weaknesses in code as it’s written before they become vulnerabilities, crashes, or maintenance headaches. It is Static Code Analysis tool. Find critical defects and security weaknesses in code as it’s written before they become vulnerabilities, crashes, or maintenance headaches.

 

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Top 5 Open Source Code Management tools

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The old way of software development where the release engineers ran from one mates to another mates to keep track on Developers to know which module they are working and when they changed something in the code or which bugs has been tracked or fixed. No doubt, that process was pathetic, stressful, filled with issues and errors.
But, now things have changed. This is the era of DevOps where everyone works as a Team and collaborate with each other and use various tools in the Software Development Lifecycle. So, today we are going to discuss on one of the most important tool called by name Code Management Tools. In this article we will see top 5 open source code management tools which are mostly used by DevOps professionals these days.
But before going further lets see what is source code management?
Code management is actually a process of handling or managing changes to source code over time with the help of softwares or tools. These softwares keeps track of every changes and modifications in the code which is made by developers frequently. If there is some kind of mistakes made by developers they can simply go back compare it with previously written code and fix the mistakes easily. With the help of code management tools Developers team can work on different features and on bug fixing simultaneously by changing code with out disrupting team members. In other words you can say It give developers the ability to work concurrently on files (in branches that may or may not converge) without conflicting each other and also give developers the ability to merge changes with other developers’ changes, to track and audit changes that were requested and made, to track bug-fix status and to perform releases.
So now the question is which code management tools to use. When you search for the options you will get hundred of tools in your search results. To make this job easy for you we have done some research and make this list of Top 5 Open Source Code Management tools.

1. Subversion

Subversion

Key Features
  • Open Source
  • Merge tracking
  • Renamed/copied/moved/removed files retain full revision history.
  • Google Code even uses SVN
  • Path-based authorization
  • Language bindings for C#, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, and Java
  • Changelists to organize commits into commit groups

2. GIT

GIT

Key Features
  • open source
  • cheap local branching
  • fast performance
  • multiple workflows
  • convenient staging areas
3. Mercurial

Mercurial
Key Features
  • open source
  • fast and powerful
  • easy to learn
  • functions are less complicated
  • integrated web-interface

4. Github

Github

Key Features
  • Open Source
  • Code review
  • Issue tracking with labels, milestones
  • largest host of source code in the world
  • Commits history
  • Graphs: pulse, contributors, commits, code frequency, punch card, network, members
  • Unified and split diffs

5. CVS

CVS

Key Features
  • Open Source
  • Easy to learn
  • Google still hosts the original Usenet post that announced CVS
  • Maintains a central repository of the most recent repository
  • CVS allows to rollback any commit in the repository, even if this may require some time
  • CVS uses a client–server architecture
  • CVS can also maintain different “branches” of a project
  • Several developers may work on the same project concurrently
Code Management these days plays an important role in development process and especially when team (large / small) works on single application. So, choose it wisely. Now , its your turn if you think this list should contain some other tools instead of this than write below in the comment box.
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Top 5 Cloud Based Continuous Integration Tools

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Today we are going to discuss about Cloud based continuous integration tools. As we already discussed about Continuous integration, it’s benefits and top continuous integration tools in our previous article which was published few weeks ago, you can click here go there. In this article, we tried to make your selection process easy if you are looking for cloud based continuous integration tools.
These days organisations are increasingly turning to cloud based options for continuous integration and this is obvious because cloud based options allows you hassle free process. You don’t need to build new server, downloading or installing or configuring the softwares in local platform. You don’t need to spend your time to manage or upgrade them frequently. Alongwith that when you need more resources during business hours, you also get the leverage for infrastructure resources on-demand and greatly reduce the time to run large builds or regression test suites. Therefore cloud hosted CI tools are on demand, just configure and go.
So, without any further ado, let’s check out the Top 5 Cloud based Continuous Integration tools.
1. Travis CI
Travis CI
Travis CI is a cloud based continuous integration tool which is developed by Travis CI community. This is written in Ruby and it is an open source tool. You can easily synchronise GitHub projects with this tool. It’s supports platforms like Linux, Mac or iOS and also supports many languages in which Node js, php, Xcode, python, java, are few of them.
Key Features
  • Supports pull request and branch build flow
  • Run tests in parallel
  • Great API and command line tool
  • Open Source tool
  • Multi-language support
  • Easy to sync GitHub projects
  • Pull request build flow
  • Branch build flow
  • Notifications by Slack, HipChat, Emails and more
  • Deploy to S3 and Heroku
2. Go CD

Go CD

Go CD is also amongst the top tools which is used for cloud based continuous integration. However, Go CD is continuous delivery tool. This tool is written in Java and Ruby and available under Apache license. It was Developed by ThoughtWorks in the year 2007 and renamed GoCD later in the year 2010.
Key Features
  • Open source tool
  • Supports Cross platform
  • Manual triggers to customise and save good versions of Apps
  • Value Stream Map allows you to track a change from commit to deploy at a glance.
  • Test reporting
  • compare builds feature for both files and commit messages – across any two arbitrary builds
  • Allow to set multiple servers to keep your data available in the case of an emergency
  • GitHub Integration
3. CircleCI
CircleCI
CircleCI is a cloud based continuous integration software which is belongs to Circle CI and was founded in the year 2011. It is available as free and paid with trail option. It is integrated with popular code management services such as GitHub & Bitbucket. It supports languages like Python, Node.js, Ruby, Java, Go, etc.
Key Features
  • Free plan even for a business account
  • Rest API — you have an access to projects, build and artifacts
  • You can trigger SSH mode to access container
  • Integrated with Github & Bitbucket
  • It’s easy, lightweight and fast to start
  • Compatible with Ubuntu and Mac OS X
  • Compatible with AWS, Azure, Heroku, Docker, dedicated server
4. GitLab CI
GitLab CI
GitLab CI is also amongst the best Hosted continuous integration tool which belongs to GitLab Inc and available under open source and commercial license. This is written in Ruby and Go. Gitlab build scripts are command line driven and work with Java, PHP, Ruby, C, and any other language.
Key Features
  • Fully integrated with GitLab
  • Supports platforms like Unix, Windows, OSX, and any other platform that supports Go
  • Tests run distributed on separate machines of which you can add as many as you want
  • GitLab CI offers the same great experience as GitLab. Familiar, easy to use, and beautiful.
  • Easy to use
  • Each build can be split in multiple jobs that run in parallel on multiple machines
  • There are multiple executors and you can reproduce tests locally
5. Codeship

Codeship

Codeship is one of the most powerful cloud based CI tool which available in open source but for support you need to choose paid option. It’s easy to start using Codeship, the size of team and needs does not affect the performance. This tool works on GitHub and Bitbucket, but you can use it with docker platform too by opting packages. This tool support languages such as Java, PHP, Ruby (Rails), Node.js, Python, and Go.
Key Features
  • Easy to start and Use
  • Fully customizable hosted CI platform
  • You can sign up with GitHub, GitLab & Bitbucket
  • Flexible Pricing
  • ParallelCI feature
  • Open source tool but for support you need to pay
  • Docker Supported (by upgrading)
Do you agree with this list? If not than feel free to respond in the comment box with your own take on the top cloud based or hosted continuous integration tools. One more thing, I would like to add here, if you need help to learn all these build tools or DevOps courses than scmGalaxy can help you in this. scmGalaxy is a community of DevOps professionals who are well experienced in this domain. So, feel free to contact us.
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Top 5 Build Management Tools

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These days in software industry the process of software development very much rely upon best practices of various tools. The software development teams use various tools like project management, release management , test management and various others. As we already discussed about these tools in our previous posts. But, today we are going to discuss about Build management tool. This is one of the most important tool which required in any kind of software development. In this article we are going to discuss about Top Build Management Tools.
But before that let’s have a quick overview on Build management.
Build management is actually a process of collecting all the components in a software release, performing all the automated tasks to compile, build and test the system and then deploy onto the development and testing environments in preparation for staging. It has become an important part of software development in testing process.
But you can not simply do build management without tools. it is also important to ensure that tools are selected properly and thoroughly so that each of them provides the desired service.
So, without wasting any time let’s have a look on top 5 build management tools
1. Apache Maven
 Apache Maven
Maven is an open source build management tool which is distributed under Apache License. It is basically used for Java projects. let’s have a look on key feature of Maven tool
Key Features
  • Open source
  • Based on Project Object Model or POM
  • Release management and distribution publication
  • Coherent site of project information
  • Instant access to new features
  • Extensible with plugins
  • Works easily with multiple projects simultaneously
  • Simple project setup

2. Gradle

 

 Gradle

Gradle is also an open source build management tool which is distributed under Apache License. It is written in java and groovy supports cross platform. Let’s have a look on key features

Key Features
  • Open source
  • Designed for multiple projects
  • Supports incremental builds
  • Rich API
  • Mature ecosystem of plugins
  • Ease of migration
  • First build integration tool
  • Declarative builds and build-by-convention

3. Apache Ant

 

Apache Ant
Apache Ant is also an open source build automation tool which is distributed under Apache License. It is also a Java based build tool. Let’s have a look on key features
Key Features
  • open source
  • Ease of Use
  • Independent Platform
  • Can execute test scripts and test suites
  • Can copy files to at different locations
  • Supports Junit 3, Junit 4, Testing etc.
  • Able to compile java based applications
  • Can check out the code from version control system (SVN, GIT, CVS etc).
4. MSBuild
 MSBuild
MsBuild or Microsoft build tools as its name indicates it belongs to Microsoft which is written in C# and supports .Net framework and available under MIT license.
Key features
  • Able to build Visual Studio projects without Visual Studio IDE installed
  • Now bundled with Visual Studio
  • Multitargeting
  • Description language – XML
5. FinalBuilder
 FinalBuilder
Finalbuilder is a build tool which supports Windows platform and it is developed by VSoft Technologies in the year 2000. It is available under Proprietary license.
Key Features
  • It can present your build process in a structured manner
  • With FinalBuilder you don’t need to edit xml, or  write scripts
  • Allows builds to be scheduled to run daily, weekly or whenever you wish
  • Extensive library of pre-written actions to automate every common task in build process
  • Integrated Debugging
  • Detailed Logging
  • Version Control Integration
Do you agree with this list? If not than feel free to respond in the comment box with your own take on the top build management tools. One more thing, I would like to add here, if you need help to learn all these build tools or DevOps courses than scmGalaxy can help you in this. scmGalaxy is a community of DevOps professionals who are well experienced in this domain. So, feel free to reach us.
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Top 5 Open Source Release Management Tools | List of Best Release Management Tools

by scmgalaxy KCruise Control / Release ConceptLeave a Comment on Top 5 Open Source Release Management Tools | List of Best Release Management Tools
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Few days ago, I published an article in which i covered the topic Top five release management tools which are high in trend these days. Today, I am going to write on the same topic but there is one difference, today we will discuss about open source release management tools.
In this article I am going to share top 5 open source tools for Release Management. But, if you want to know about Release management and it’s benefits than you can check out the previously written article here.
So, Without any further ado in this article, let’s directly move to the main section.
Let’s check out open source release management tools.
1. CruiseControl
 CruiseControl
CruiseControl basically known as continuous integration tool. It can be used in Release management process. Cruisecontrol is an open source tool which is written in java and supports cross platform and it was developed by CruiseControl development team and initially released in the year 2001. You can extend this tool with the help of plugins and extensions.

2. Luntbuild
Luntbuild
LuntBuild is known as Build management and continuous integration tool. This one is another open source release management tool which is written in java ans supports cross platform. This tool is developed by PMEase. This tool is easy to install and configure. It has a clean web interface.

3. Maven
Maven
Maven is also known as build tool but it’s also an open source release management tool which is written in java and supports cross platform. Maven was initially released in the year 2004 and developed by Apache Software Foundation. Maven can also be used to build and manage projects written in C#, Ruby, Scala, and other languages.

4. Jenkins
Jenkins
Jenkins is one of the most popular tool for Continuous integration but it can be used as a release management software. This software is written in java and it was initially released in the year 2011. It was developed as a Hudson project as Sun Microsystems which was later take over by Oracle corporation. The great thing about this tool is its functionality can be extended with plugins.
5. Subversion (SVN)

Subversion (SVN)

Subversion or SVN is a versioning and revision control system but it also can be used as Release management software . You can say this one is the leading release management tool in the open source category. This tool is written in C and it supports cross platform was developed by  CollabNet Inc in the year 2000.

So, That’s it. Now it’s your turn , share your views in this article and if you think this list should contain some other tools instead of this than fee free to share with us the in the comment section below.

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Top 10 Bug/Issue Tracking Tools | List of Best Bug/Issue Tracking Tools

by scmgalaxy KCode Analysis / Incident and Bug Tracking SystemsLeave a Comment on Top 10 Bug/Issue Tracking Tools | List of Best Bug/Issue Tracking Tools
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Just imagine a situation when you put so much efforts to build a software or application and release it and after that users get error or issues in it on the very first use. That’ it, all your efforts will be useless. So, testing is an important aspect which you can not miss in your “Software Development Life-cycle” (SDLC). But, for that you need some tools or I would say good tools, so that you can make sure you are going to give an error or bug free experience to your application or software end users.
But, there is one big challenge that you will face, How to choose or select best bug tracking tools? Don’t worry, I am going to make this task easy for you. I have done some research and make a list of top ten bug tracking tools which I am going share.
So, without any further delay, let’s check out

1. Bugzilla

 

 Bugzilla

Bugzilla is one of the most popular and trustable bug tracking software serving since 18 long years. It’s belongs to Mozilla Foundation and was released in the year 1998 and written in Perl. Bugzilla is open sourced and free to use.
Key Features
  • Basic and advance search features with save & share options
  • Notifications by Email
  • Scheduled Reports by Email
  • Advanced reporting system
  • Auto Detection of Similar Bugs
  • Patch Viewer which makes code review much easier
  • Excellent Security
  • Localization
  • Move Bugs Between Installations without any manual work
  • Request System where you can ask other users to do something with a particular bug or attachment
  • Optimized database structure for increased performance and scalability

2. Mantis Bug Tracker

Mantis Bug Tracker

 

Mantis or Mantis BT is also an open source bug tracking tool. It’s is written in PHP and serving since 2000 almost for 17 years. It was first developed by “Kenzaburo Ito” and later by few others as a team project.
Key Features
  • Easy to Install & Use
  • No limit on the number of users, issues, or projects
  • Email notifications
  • Functionality can be extended by plugins
  • Flexibility to customize issue fields, notifications and workflow
  • Per project different access level for users
  • Source Control Integration
  • Easy collaboration with team members & clients
  • Built-in Reporting
  • Available in 68 localizations
3. Jira
Jira
Jira is a bug/issue tracking and project management tool which was developed by Atlassian, Inc. almost 15 years ago in the year 2002. It is written in Java. It’s available under commercial license but in few scenarios like official non-profit organizations, charities, academic or religious organizations you can use it for free.
Key Features
  • Code Integration – automatically updating issues when they check in code
  • Keep history of issues from either customers or bugs
  • Multiple Workflows
  • Easy to assign and prioritise the bug issue as per the importance and urgency
  • Comprehensive Issue Reports
  • Customizable Dashboard
  • Bugs can be imported from a CSV file
  • Trigger notifications allow auto informing to the next reviewer
  • Addons availability like Capture for JIRA which allows backlog to release

 

4. Redmine

Redmine

Redmine is an open source bug tracking tool which was developed by Jean Philippe Lang in the year 2006 (almost 10 yrs ago) and it is written in Ruby on rails.
Key Features
  • Define you own statuses and issue types
  • Workflow transitions can be set up for each issue type and role
  • Feeds & email notifications
  • Issue creation via email
  • Multi Language support
  • User self-registration support
  • Time tracking functionality
5. Trac
Trac
Trac is also an bug tracking tool written in python and developed by Edgewall Software 13 years ago in the year 2004. It’s available as open source and as a BSD license product.
Key Features
  • Resolve issues through multiple workflows
  • Ticket Tracking
  • Email notification
  • Plugins support for standard functionality
  • Customizable workflow
  • Unicode Supported
  • Code Integration
  • Custom Fields
  • Integrated wiki
  • Collaboration – Create teams and groups
6. The Bug Genie

The Bug Genie

The bug Genie is an open source bug tracking tools which is developed by Daniel Andre Eikeland and later by there team in the year 2003. This bug tracking software is written in PHP and supports cross platforms. It is said that it is one of the most beautiful tool to use and having a great interface.
Key Features
  • Easy to use
  • Finding issues is simple and fast
  • Customise search results
  • Custom issue fields
  • RSS support
  • Issue-related actions are available with a click
  • Integrated quick search
  • Customizable workflow
7. Fossil

Fossil

Fossil was first released 11 years ago in the year 2006. This is written in C, SQL and developed by D. Richard Hipp. It’s available under BSD license. Fossil also supports cross platforms
Key Features
  • User friendly web interface
  • Auto sync mode
  • Custom Fields
  • SUpports Multiple Projects
  • RSS Notification interface
  • Easy collaboration
  • Ticket Change Artifacts
8. eTraxis

eTraxis

eTraxis is written in PHP and supports multi-database and multi languages. It is an open source bug tracking tool. Let’s check out eTraxis key features
Key Features
Complete customization of the workflow
Extensive permissions management
Allow Commenting
Email notifications
Flexible to set up your own filters & views
Supports attachments in reported issue
You can check out complete history of all events, actions, and changes
9. WebIssues

WebIssues

WebIssues is a multi platform open source issue tracking tool. It is written in PHP and works with MySQL database. It is amongst easy to use issue tracking softwares with some good features.
Key Features
  • Tracking new and modified issues
  • Filtering and searching issues
  • Easy installation and setup
  • Reports can be exported as HTML and PDF documents
  • Issues can also be exported in CSV format
  • Email notifications
  • Periodic reports can be sent
  • Security and rights management
  • supports team collaboration
  • Easy to Customize
10. HP ALM/ Quality Center

HP ALM/ Quality Center

HP Quality center is written in .NET & Java which is developed by Hewlett-Packard (formerly Mercury Interactive). It was first released in the year 1995. It is a quality management tool with integrated bug tracking system. It’s available under commercial license but you can use free trial for few days.
Key features
  • Test Planning integration
  • Customizable workflow
  • Custom Fields
  • Plug Ins Availability
  • Supports Multiple Projects
  • Web, GUI & Rest input interface
  • Email Notifications
  • Reporting and graphing
  • Collaboration – supports working in common integrated development environments

So, That’s it. These are most popular bug tracking tools used in software industry these days. Hope my efforts will help while choosing the bug/issue tracking tool. But, now it’s your turn. If you think any other tool should be listed here instead of this than please share with us in the comment section below.

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Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Tools | List of Best Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

by scmgalaxy KIT Infrastructure Monitoring ToolsLeave a Comment on Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Tools | List of Best Infrastructure Monitoring Tools
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There are various types of tools used by DevOps professionals in their work environment from Continuous integration tools to Virtualization to configuration Management to monitoring and the list goes on and on. So today, we are going to talk about Infrastructure Monitoring tools. Which plays a vital role in the DevOps culture.
 
First of all lets see what is Infrastructure Monitoring ?
 
Infrastructure monitoring is a process in which Organisations IT framework is monitor by companies with the help of tools and softwares. This is essential so that you can make sure that your product availability is good and providing efficient services to customers or users. In other words, Infrastructure Monitoring tools help organisations to find and short-out infrastructure issues before it affect their businesses. It provides the insight status of physical, virtual, and cloud systems which helps in management of these things which ultimately helps in business processes.
 
Now, Let’s check out the major benefits of Infrastructure Monitoring Tools ?
 
1. Infrastructure monitoring tools help to detect the technical problems or outages before it occurs which helps engineers to act in advance accordingly so that it can not affect other things.
 
2. It also helps in quick troubleshooting. When problems happen the first thing engineers do is to troubleshoot them but they cannot do it without proper reports of the infrastructures and monitoring provides them end-to-end informations which helps them to short out the problem quickly.
 
3. This is beneficial when you need to go back to the history to find and choose amongst the infrastructure options for your organization. You can check all the previous monitoring details which helps to take better and firm decisions while selecting.
 
4. It helps in productivity of the human resources by providing them the automation which ultimately helps them to focus on the other things of the infrastructure management and making other strategies.
 
5. All these things which mentioned above ultimately helps the end users to use services smoothly which is very much necessary for running your business effectively and efficiently.
 
 
Now, as we all know there are various tools you can find for Infrastructure monitoring but to choose amongst them you need to do some research. But, don’t waste your time on research as I have done already the same and make my list of top 5 infrastructure monitoring tools.
 
Here is the list:-
 

1. Anturis

Anturis

 

Anturis is a cloud based monitoring tool which belongs to Anturis Inc. It’s like an all-in-one infrastructure monitoring tools which provides server monitoring, network monitoring, website monitoring and application monitoring.
 
Highlights
  • On-premise and cloud-based systems monitoring
  • Seamless agent-based and agent-less monitoring
  • Single dashboard monitoring for multiple data centers in different locations
  • Add many infrastructures and components easily as per needs and can streamline for different users
  • Smart alerts and notification that helps to eliminate “false” alerts and alert “spam”
 

2. AppDynamics

AppDynamics

 
AppDynamics is basically an Application infrastructure monitoring tool which belongs to AppDynamics Inc. but now it’s acquired by Cisco
 
Highlight
  • Provides Visibility into Server Performance
  • Visibility into Database Performance
  • Low overhead monitoring for both
  • Available for both on-premise and SaaS deployments
  • License flexibility to migrate across deployment models

3. BigPanda

BigPanda

BigPanda is also an Infrastructure monitoring tool from bigpanda.io which is founded in 2012 by Assaf Resnick & Elik Eizenberg. It uses algorithms to consolidate data across multiple monitoring systems.
 
Highlights
 
  • Ops-Aware Inbox: All your alerts organized, & updated in one place
  • Reduce Noisy Alerts: Snooze non-actionable alerts
  • Auto-correlate related alerts into high level incidents
  • Collaboration: Share, assign and track alerts
  • Advanced reporting and analytics
  • Trends, real-time activity log, and historical data in just a few clicks
  • Customized views for any app, team or business service
 
4. Boundary

Boundary

Boundary was founded by Cliff Moon & Benjamin Blacka. It is a consolidated operations management platform providing SaaS-based solutions for clients running apps and cloud infrastructures.
 
Highlights
  • Real-time trends of critical metrics
  • Pre-built library of event connectors, APIs for others
  • Early Warnings
  • Dashboard View
  • Analytics for trend analysis and anomaly detection
  • Easy to visualize response times between application tiers
 
5. CopperEgg or Uptime Infrastructure Monitor

CopperEgg

Copper egg was founded Scott Johnson, Eric Anderson & Bob Quillin in 2010 which is later in 2013 acquired by IDERA. It is now renamed to Uptime Infrastructure Monitor. You can monitor physical servers, virtual machines, network devices, applications, and services across multiple platforms running on-premise, remotely, or in the Cloud with the help of Uptime Infrastructure Monitor.
 
Highlights
  • Unified IT Dashboard
  • Customizable, drag-and-drop dashboards
  • Reports on app & server uptime
  • Proactive alerts & root-cause analysis
  • Team or role-specific dashboards
  • Cloud, on-premise or remote monitoring
  • Cloud monitoring incl. Amazon’s EC2 & Rackspace
  • Agentless and agent-based server monitoring
 
 
6. Datadog

Datadog

Datadog was founded in the 2010 by Olivier Pomel & Alexis Lê-Quôc. It provides monitoring for cloud-scale applications. It brings the data together from applications, cloud providers and specialized management tools in one location.
 
Highlights
  • Free Trial for an unlimited number of hosts
  • Out-of-the-box and customizable monitoring dashboards
  • Alert notifications via e-mail and PagerDuty
  • Full API access in more than 15 languages
  • Tools for team collaboration
  • Easy-to-use search for hosts, metrics, and tags
 
 
7. Nagios

Nagios

Nagios is a veteran Infrastructure monitoring tool which was released in 1999 which provides monitoring and alerting solutions for servers, switches, applications and services.
 
Highlights
  • Open source tool
  • Comprehensive monitoring
  • Powerful script APIs
  • Performance & capacity planning graphs
  • Advanced graphs & visualizations
  • Advanced user management
  • Extendable architecture
  • Reporting
 
8. New Relic

New Relic

New relic provides Complete dynamic infrastructure and server monitoring which is founded by Lew Cirne in 2008.
 
Highlights
  • Real-time health metrics for all your systems
  • Live-state Event Feed and a complete change history across all your hosts
  • Slice-and-dice by AWS tags, custom attributes, and metadata
  • Tag-driven alerting and dashboarding for all your dynamic resources
  • Infrastructure-wide search to find vulnerable packages or other resources
  • Docker support, including the ability to track container performance by image, version, and other labels
 
9. Icinga

Icinga

Icinga is an open source monitoring tool which was released in 2009 was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application.
 
Highlights
  • Wealth of community-developed plugins
  • Stable codebase.
  • Monitoring of Network,Host and Server Components
  • Notification of contact persons when service or host problems occur and get resolved
  • Alerts transfer to other users or channels
  • Template based reports
  • Report repository with varying access levels and automated report generation and distribution
  • Clear-cut, object-based configuration
  • Clever commands & runtime macros
  • Apply & assign attributes
 
10. AppNeta

AppNeta

AppNeta also provides monitoring services and this was founded in 2000 by Irfhan Rajani and Matt Stevens. It’s provide SaaS-based application and network monitoring for any cloud, for every user and for all locations.
 
Highlights
  • Detailed performance trends in real-time
  • Real-User Monitoring
  • synthetic trends
  • Troubleshoot issues across the entire app network path
  • Proactive Alerts
  • Network Performance Monitoring
  • Provides visibility into AWS components, as well as the network they communicate over
 
So, That’s it. This is my list of top infrastructure monitoring tools and it will definitely help you while choosing them. But, if you think this list should contain any other tools instead of this than please share your list or views in comment section below.

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