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Behind the Grafana UX: Redesigning the Thresholds Editor

As part of building the new Gauge panel in React, we also wanted to update the panel controls, especially the thresholds control. A threshold in the context of Grafana is simply a value that, when exceeded, a condition occurs. An example would be a single stat panel with a green background that changes its background color to red when a threshold is breached.

Why Traditional Kubernetes Monitoring Solutions Fail

Kubernetes has several key differences that push the limits of traditional application monitoring. Due to the distributed ephemeral nature of Kubernetes, most existing solutions fail to give the visibility we might expect, resulting in longer resolution times. Looking at these potential pitfalls can help guide us as we take a fresh look at Kubernetes management and monitoring.

Why Affiliate Websites and Bloggers Should Promote SaaS Affiliate Programs in 2019

SaaS Affiliate Programs have become very popular in 2019 with both online publishers and bloggers. Today freelancers working online can sign up to a variety of SaaS affiliate programs on offer and start sending their traffic via their affiliate links to your online store and if these users buy one of your products or services, the affiliate website gets paid a commission for the sales driven by them.

US Retailer Target Struck Again by Online & Payment Processing Downtime

US retailer Target faced issues with its online presence yesterday, Tuesday 24th September 2019, when its website experienced an outage. The downtime not only impacted Target’s sales website but also its mobile application as well as payment processing in store.

9 Essential Steps to Improve Rankings Using Analytics

How to correctly interpret the data obtained in Analytics? How to deal with a large amount of data and structure conclusions to increase the website ranking? Analytics like Google Analytics and others provides a lot of different information. This service has dozens of ready-made reports and a huge number of forms that require a little customization.

Challenges of big infrastructure monitoring

The growing complexity of today’s IT reality is indisputable: Software is becoming more and more complex, and the infrastructure it runs on is equally so. This complexity comes, in part, from adding layers upon layers to the infrastructure we manage — from bare metal servers to VMs to containers to function-based computing — and from how quickly we cycle in new technologies and how slowly old technologies are cycled out.

7 Reasons Why Your Business Needs 24/7 Chat Support

The customer support department is an integral part of any organization. Startup business owner often handles it by themselves; however, medium to large-sized organizations establish separate workforce but in-house hiring or outsourcing to keep their customers happy. They use many proven tactics for user engagement and are still seeking the way to bridge the gap.

How to Monitor Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Networks

By Des Nnochiri Most enterprises now use two or more cloud service providers, and 35% use up to five monitoring tools to keep tabs on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. Even before organizations began shifting software and IT infrastructure to the cloud, a typical business would use four to ten tools just to monitor and troubleshoot their internal networks, according to analyst and consulting firm Enterprise Management Associates.

Rethinking Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Sentry Raises $40 Million Series C

When I started Sentry in 2008 as an open-source side-project, I was solving a problem for myself. I wanted visibility and alerting around what errors occurred and when. I wanted to take errors out of log files and into an easily digestible dashboard.