As per research published by Hosting Advice, over 56% of employees who felt disengaged at work marked inadequate training as the key reason for it. Over 53% of employees felt that they would be able to perform better at their jobs if they received adequate training. And over 31% of respondents to the research survey stated that they had to quit their jobs less than six months after being hired. Olivia was one of those last set of employees at her first job out of graduate school.

During PromCon, I gave a talk titled “The Future of Prometheus and its Ecosystem.” I want to share the key highlights with you.

The rapid pivot towards a remote workforce is forcing organizations to adopt a cloud-first approach faster than ever. We recently surveyed 500 IT decision-makers around the globe to ascertain their views on IT automation, cloud migration, and business continuity in the face of unexpected crises. The survey found that 87% of IT professionals agree that the current COVID-19 pandemic will cause organizations to accelerate their migration to the cloud.

As a developer, getting metrics from your application onto a Prometheus graph can seem daunting. We’ll look at analyzing your service to find the most useful places to add metrics, how to add that instrumentation, getting it exposed and scraped, and then basic queries to use those metrics on graphs. Check out another article of mine for general reference on instrumenting, this one on Prometheus metrics, or this comparison on instrumentation alternatives.

OpenTelemetry is an instrumentation standard for application monitoring - both for monitoring metrics & distributed tracing. In this blog, we take you through a hands on guide on how to run this on Kubernetes.

Honeycomb’s event-based pricing model is pretty simple: we only care about how many events you send. For teams running workloads at scale, the question becomes: are all of my events worth keeping? How can you reduce overall event volume while maintaining fidelity? This HoneyByte is all about sampling strategies you can use to lower costs without sacrificing the value of your data.

We’re excited to announce the first version release of our new dashboard framework: Dashboard (New). Built on top of a scalable, flexible, and extensible charting system, the new dashboards provide customers with deep control over their visuals, enable metadata rich workflows, and create dashboards in a dashboard first GUI.

Often, brands are unaware of how their website is performing or exactly when it goes down. Technical glitches are common in today’s ever-evolving cyber world and websites can become temporarily dysfunctional due to several reasons. But from a business perspective, downtime of even a few minutes can translate into huge losses for your enterprise. Your website is one of the most important elements of your business and you should be aware of its status at all times.

Today, InfluxDB Cloud is generally available on Microsoft Azure. Now you have the freedom to run the leading time series database on whichever you prefer: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or AWS.