Archive for the ‘DevOps’ Category

Spotinst now offers a new service that enables you to integrate their Elastigroup to GitLab CI/CD. That means you can enjoy 3 benefits: Save money on Spot instances you install on AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2. You can save up to 80% by using Spotinst (read below what Spot instances are) High availability that Spotinst […]

GitLab has acquired Gemnasium, a service that scans for security vulnerabilities in open source libraries, and soon it will be part of the GitLab product. This move helps GitLab users enjoy static code analysis; dynamic security testing; security container scanning and more. The tool can now scan Ruby, Python and JavaScript code languages, and very […]

During a recent GitLab live event, GitLab made several interesting  announcements: They presented their vision of “Complete DevOps”, and demonstrated capabilities that will soon be incorporated into their product. They announced that they had raised $20 million in new venture capital funding led by Google Ventures (GV). So far, the total amount of funding raised […]

There are currently 5 different editions of GitLab, including free, paid, cloud and more. This variety confuses some users, so I wrote this article to explain the differences between the editions. I’m going to introduce the editions as different layers on top of each other. Each layer provides some additional functionality beyond the layer below […]

GitLab is sponsoring the DevOpsDays conference next week in Tel Aviv, and as their Israeli distributor we’ll be there too! If you attend the conference, be sure to drop by GitLab’s booth and say hello

  Our new performance monitoring tool is coming soon, and it’s better than ever! What’s new? New API that enables you to dynamically duplicate and remove monitored hosts New integration with ChatOp tools: Slack and Atlassian HipChat Easier installation More accurate email alerts (to avoid email burden) New thresholds New checks unique for Jenkins masters […]

This year’s Jenkins conference offers some interesting announcements related to Jenkins v2.0. You can watch them live at no charge: Wednesday, September 14 9:00 AM -10:00 AM PT Jenkins Community Keynote Address, Kohsuke Kawaguchi,Jenkins Founder and Chief Technology Officer, CloudBees 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT CloudBees Keynote Address, Sacha Labourey, CEO and Founder, CloudBees […]

Today we are releasing the newest version, 1.6.1, of our performance monitoring tool. This version comes after we released version 1.6 about 3 weeks ago, and it contains some improvements we made after we collected feedback from our users. See the dashboard: As a reminder, we offer both Free Edition and Pro Edition, and you […]

Tel Aviv, Israel – June 28, 2016 –  IBM Champion ALMtoolbox, Inc., a firm with offices in the United States and Israel, today announced availability of a free Community edition product called ALM Performance, based upon ALM Performance Pro, their award-winning environment monitoring commercial solution. The Community edition of ALM Performance provides a comprehensive set […]

For the first time, we now provide a Free Community Edition of our performance monitoring & alerting tool for ClearCase ClearQuest and Jenkins. You can quickly get email alerts when something goes wrong with machine or application, and you can even define thresholds aligned to your needs. Yes it’s free! We provide both Free and […]

We are happy to announce the new release of ALM Performance v1.6, our monitoring and alerting tool for Jenkins, ClearCase, ClearQuest. Since the release of the previous release (v1.5) a month ago, we have received and incorporated feedback from many of our users and we have tried to address all of needs with this latest version. This […]

We are proud to be a part of the first Jenkins TLV meetup that will take place on Monday, May 9 at AOL offices in Tel Aviv. During this meetup, we’ll be demonstrating a demo of our performance monitoring tool we made for Jenkins named ALM Vitality. ALM Vitality is a performance monitoring and alerting tool specifically tailored for Jenkins environments. ALM […]

We’re happy to announce the new release of ALM Vitality v1.4, our vitality monitoring and alerting tool for Jenkins, ClearCase, ClearQuest. In this release we’re focused on some enhancements based on requests from our veteran users, including support for Oracle database; UI improvements and email alert improvements. Click to download   What is new in […]

This time I’d like to share some insights we observed when we helped our first users to install our monitoring & alerting tool for ClearCase, Jenkins and ClearQuest. A threshold is the point at which your system begins to experience difficulties. For example: high memory usage in your Jenkins master or a low number of […]

This time I’d like to talk about the touchy issue when a service (you take charge of) does not function and you’re the last one to know about… Would’t you want to avoid this the next time it happens? For instance, If you take charge of ClearCase: don’t you want to know when a certain […]