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Enhanced Maintenance Experience in Splunk Cloud Platform

Calling all Splunk Cloud Platform admins! At Splunk, we are constantly working to improve the way we service our customers. We understand that maintenance windows, while necessary, can sometimes be impactful to your operations. That is why we’re excited to announce a significant upgrade to our maintenance experience, designed to provide you with greater control and minimal impact.

What Does Archiving Mean?

Archiving is a crucial concept in both personal and business data management, ensuring that important information is preserved for future use without cluttering up active systems. In today’s digital world, where vast amounts of data are generated every second, understanding the value of archiving and how it works can help organisations stay efficient, compliant, and secure.

How to parameterize Playwright projects

In a previously released YouTube video, I explained how and why Playwright fixtures perfectly match with page object models. Combining the two allows you to hide setup instructions and keep your tests clean. Page object models no longer have to be initialized in every test case. To be upfront — I'm a fixture fanboy! But what if you need to pass additional configuration to your page object models? When options are hidden in a fixture, you can't configure how a class is initialized, right? Wrong!

Standalone Service Mesh Solution or Lightweight Option: Which is Right for You?

Service mesh is a tool for adding observability, security, and traffic management capabilities at the application layer. A service mesh is intended to help developers and site reliability engineers (SREs) with service-to-service communication within Kubernetes clusters. The challenges involved in deploying and managing microservices led to the creation of the service mesh, but service mesh solutions themselves introduce complexities and challenges.

Top 5 E-commerce IT outages detected by StatusGator

In the fast-paced world of e-commerce, real-time monitoring is crucial for staying ahead of disruptions. At StatusGator, we provide early alerts about service outages, often before they are officially recognized. Here’s a look at the top 5 e-commerce IT outages we detected recently.

Logs Search & Filter - Taking Quick Analysis of Logs to the Next Level

It is the last day of SigNoz Launch Week 2.0, and we’re excited to announce improvements in the logs module of SigNoz. Searching and filtering for logs to debug issues is one of the top critical workflows any developer uses. We have gathered feedback from our users and shipped some important features that focus on speeding up log searches, refining the filtering process, and enhancing the overall log analysis experience.

Feature Friday #28: Restricting individual promises using if and unless

Class expressions are powerful. They let you restrict the context for multiple promises in a single statement. What if you want to further control the context of a specific promise? Let’s take a look at a contrived example: /tmp/feature-friday-28-0.cf command output Here, we have a report showing the distribution we’re running through class expressions protecting the individual promises. We would see I love Linux! on Linux hosts.

A Guide to Practicing Good Email Hygiene to Prevent Spam Traps

More than 300 billion emails are sent every day, a staggering number. If you focus more on business-related emails, the average office worker sends 40 emails per day, and the average person receives 121 business-related emails every day. With so many emails being sent and received, is it any surprise that a lot end up in the spam folder? Email hygiene should be a primary focus if you're an email marketer or if you send regular emails as part of your job.

Graphite vs Prometheus: Which One Is Best For Monitoring K8s?

Monitoring K8s is crucial to ensure that your applications run smoothly. But before you look for a monitoring solution, you need to ask what tools are the best for your situation. There are several options, but Graphite and Prometheus are two leading options. This article will compare the two.