ALMtoolbox Blog

Industry leaders partner to maximise reach of joint DevOps solutions and capabilities. Tel-Aviv 22nd May, 2016 – ALMtoolbox, the leading DevOps and Digital Transformation Consultancy headquartered in Israel, today announced its strategic partnership with GitHub, the platform millions of developers and organisations around the world use to discover, share and contribute to projects. Under this partnership, […]

We’re happy to announce the new release of ALM Performance v1.5, our monitoring and alerting tool for Jenkins, ClearCase, ClearQuest (formerly known as ALM Vitality tool). This development cycle was intensive – we received and incorporated feedback from many of our users and we have tried to answer all needs with this latest version. We’re […]

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 […]

Developers, we have some tickets to share with you, for the GitHub Satellite conference in Amsterdam on 5/11. A ticket, worth 349 Euro, gives you free entrance to all sessions – plus the party at the end of the day! This event is full of case studies and great material for those who work with […]

A few months ago we released a new utility (named “Get Real Change”) that quickly determines where the code was REALLY changed; by whom; what defect \activity it’s related to, as well as other change–related info (and this works even the change was made on a faraway branch many years ago or even it was […]

Last week we released v1.4 of our monitoring & alerting solution for Jenkins hosts. To mark the occasion, we created a short new video that introduces this cutting-edge tool: Watch 3 min. introductory video:   Click to download ALM Vitality Did you know? ALM Vitality provides continuous monitoring and it covers the following checks: Monitoring […]

Since releasing the demo on integrating ClearCase 9.0 with Visual Studio 2015 and with our Visual Annotate Extension for Visual Studio and ClearCase, I’ve been asked how to enable that ClearCase integration with Visual Studio 2015 – so I made a ZIP file for ClearCase users which should work for ClearCase 9.0. Note: (a) ClearCase […]

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 […]

ClearCase 9.0 was finally released last week, giving me the opportunity to install it, see how it works and make sure that our complementary add-on tools are working seamlessly with this brand-new version! These are my insights so far: Installing new VOB server and clients on Windows is quite easy and straight-forward. You can also […]

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 […]

We at ALMtoolbox spend a great portion of our time talking and understanding our customer’s pains. One of the most painful issues Jenkins administrators raise is that they cannot control all of the parts of their Jenkins environment if they are not part of the IT team. As a result the administrator may not find […]

We at ALMtoolbox spend a great portion of our time talking and understanding our customer’s pains. One of the most painful issues ClearCase & ClearQuest administrators raise is that they cannot control all of the parts of their environment if they are not part of the IT team. As a result the administrator may not […]

I’m happy to announce the release of our ALM Vitality v1.2. This tool continuously monitors Jenkins and gives you smart alerts and notifications about the current state of your critical systems. We created this tool based on requests from many Jenkins, ClearCase & ClearQuest users who want to gain better control over their systems; be […]

We’re happy to announce the new release of ALM Vitality v1.2, our vitality monitoring tool for Jenkins, ClearCase, ClearQuest: What is new in this version? We enhanced the monitoring over Jenkins: now you can monitor the all the following applicative and IT resources. On the application side, it monitors the following for each master and […]