Every pod has its purpose. During an application deployment, all the workloads in the cluster work cohesively and ensure that the deployment launches—without any hiccups. When a pod is created, it starts its lifetime in a Pending state. A pod is in the Pending state when it is still in the process of being scheduled for deployment. When it is scheduled for deployment and the containers have started, it converts to the Running phase. It only takes a few seconds for the phase transition.

Modern websites typically have a backend API and a frontend user interface. Testing both is essential to deliver a reliable user experience and optimize engagement. Historically, Grafana Cloud k6 has helped you check one of these boxes, allowing you to test your website’s backend APIs with protocol tests. Now, we are excited to share that you can also validate your website’s frontend performance with the new browser testing feature in Grafana Cloud k6.

Windows Firewall notifications is a crucial component of Windows 10’s security infrastructure. They are an extension of this protection, informing users about critical security events, such as attempts to access the network or changes to security settings. Understanding how and when to enable or disable these notifications can help IT professionals and Windows users optimize their security settings while minimizing distractions.

We're honored to announce that Catchpoint has been named a Leader in Gartner's first-ever Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). We believe this recognition reflects the rapid pace of innovation of our Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform.

The IT landscape is ever evolving and with vulnerabilities only growing, maintaining the security and stability of your systems is now more critical than ever. Because any increase in vulnerabilities leads to an increase in risk. According to Verizon, exploitation of vulnerabilities increased 180% year over year. And research from Google has shown that zero-day exploits have seen a 50% year-over-year increase.

For many businesses, one of the worst scenarios is losing their data, having sensitive information leaked, experiencing hardware failure, or being attacked by ransomware. Without the necessary security measures and proper cloud infrastructure, businesses need to face the reality that they could lose millions. In today’s competitive and digital world, your business operations' safety, scalability, and efficiency must be protected.

Standardized logging formats are important for teams that rely on logging for observability, troubleshooting, and workflow integration. Using structured formats simplifies parsing and eliminates the need to interpret fields manually, ensuring consistency across logging formats. This reduces manual work, prevents brittleness from unstructured logs, and simplifies integration between teams that feed logs into a shared aggregation system.

As our customer base and data demands grew exponentially over the years, scaling our database infrastructure became imperative. Our vision was to set up an active-active database architecture that would ensure regional independence and exceptional service quality globally. Here’s an in-depth look at how our team managed to migrate our production data to AWS RDS Aurora, incorporating cutting-edge strategies to minimize impact during the transitional phase.

Managing observability across hybrid and multi-cloud environments is like flying a fleet of planes, each with different routes, altitudes, and destinations. You’re not just piloting a single aircraft; you’re coordinating across multiple clouds, on-premises systems, and services while ensuring performance, availability, and cost-efficiency. AWS customers, in particular, face challenges with workloads spanning multiple regions, data centers, and cloud providers.

It’s always a fear of the unknown that seems to sideline us, right? We don’t know what to expect, so we start devising all these worst-case scenarios in our head. By the time our minds are done mapping out all these scenarios, we’ve come to believe that whatever we were thinking about doing “isn’t worth the risk.” In business, it’s this fear that stifles innovation, progress, improvement, digital transformation…whatever you want to call it. Not budget.