The team was busy speaking at events in Europe and the US this week, showing off new Grafana features and talking about what’s to come. Check out the presentation on logging in Grafana below; we’ll share the video once it’s available. Also in this week’s issue we have 2 new plugins to share, and your weekly dose of Grafana related blog articles and videos.
Still referencing Best Practices for Managing AWS Access Keys, best practices recommends that root access keys are never used and should be completely removed from your AWS account. Instead, IAM users with limited permissions should be used. In fact, Skeddly even prevents root access keys from being registered with Skeddly. We always recommend using IAM third-party roles, however, access keys can still be used. And we only allow IAM user access keys to be registered.
If you’ve ever needed to use Raygun to monitor tvOS apps, today, you’re in luck. Our new and improved Raygun4Apple provider now supports Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring across more Apple platforms: iOS, tvOS, and macOS.
In this blog miniseries, I’d like to talk about how to think about doing data analysis “the Honeycomb way.” Welcome to part 1, where I cover what a heatmap is—and how using them can really level up your ability to understand what’s going on with distributed software. Heatmaps are a vital tool for software owners: if you’re going to look at a lot of data, then you need to be able to summarize it without losing detail.
If you’re responsible for keeping tabs on multiple domains, finding what you need when you need it is often half the battle. Want to access checks quickly and easily? Create custom tags for filtering checks in your Dashboard. You will get the info you need without having to look through unrelated information about other sites. Not sure how to organize your checks?
There are quite a few Docker security tools in the ecosystem, how do they compare? We have gathered a list of the most popular Docker security tools so you can evaluate what fits your needs better, including features and use cases. Here you will find both open source projects and Docker security commercial vendors.
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to instrument Golang code to expose application custom metrics using expvar. This will help you monitor availability, health and performance of your Go application.
While benchmarking packets per second (PPS) in AWS EC2 and searching for hard-coded or other software-based limitations, my early findings suggested that there definitely was a credit mechanism, complete with network throttling, in place. I now know that to be false, since finding the guaranteed throughput / best effort mechanic.
The use of scheduled tasks is very common in large and medium-sized systems, mainly because they have several functionalities linked to the automation of tasks without human intervention. It is common to see the use of tools like crontab (Linux) for scheduling tasks, be they in Java or another language.
Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP) Cloud SQL is a managed MySQL and PostgreSQL database service. This service enables you to quickly set up and manage databases for your applications without having to maintain the underlying infrastructure.
