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Lock-free Observations for Prometheus Histograms

There’s a famous Go proverb that states: Don’t communicate by sharing memory; share memory by communicating. At GopherCon UK 2019, Björn Rabenstein, an engineer at Grafana and a Prometheus developer, told the audience that when it comes to observations for Prometheus histograms, that saying doesn’t hold true.

The 6 best tech jobs of the future

You may already know it if you follow us on a regular basis: in Pandora FMS blog we love to look ahead to the future. And we have to tell you a secret: next to our coat rack, locked up in a dresser, we have a gleaming crystal ball that we check from time to time. To activate it, you just have to pronounce the word “monitoring” in a secret language that I will not reveal here, and that is when it lights up and shows us its knowledge.

How KeyBank used the Elastic Stack to build an enterprise monitoring solution

KeyBank is one of the largest banks in the United States. And as the bank has grown, so has their end-to-end monitoring system. With more than 1,100 branches and 1,400 ATMs stretching across 15 states, KeyBank’s infrastructure had evolved into a “Noah’s Ark of design,” says Mick Miller, Senior Product Manager, Cloud Native at KeyBank. In other words, they had two of everything, resulting in 21 different data islands.

InfluxDB 2.0 Open Source Beta Released

Today we announce InfluxDB 2.0 Open Source’s official move to Beta. This represents a huge step forward from where we started out nearly a year ago and is one step closer to general availability. You can download the latest version on our downloads page. Since we announced the first Alpha for InfluxDB 2.0 back in January ‘19, we have been working hard to build out and harden InfluxDB 2.0’s capabilities.

Self-hosted Sentry 10 is ready to serve - get it while it's hot!

At Sentry, we pride ourselves on having an open kitchen; everyone can see how we prepare our main dishes as an open-source company. As you may have noticed, we’ve been working hard to bring you a version that’s incredibly easy to set up and maintain: Sentry 10! It’s available today! Before you start hammering PyPI, GitHub, or Docker servers, please read on as there are important changes that need your attention.