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Join the Discussion on Sentry's Streamlined SDKs

If you use Sentry, you’re probably familiar with our SDKs. While they aren’t the only reason for Sentry’s success, they do play a very important role, from the first time an error is thrown to the moment you fix the bug. SDKs are often like political figures (editor’s note: there are so many things we resisted saying here) — you don’t notice them if they do a good job. Jokes aside, there are very few expectations for an SDK.

The secret to thousands of contributions to the Mattermost open source project

Three years after launching, there are over 1,000 open source projects on GitHub that integrate with Mattermost. Our contributors have also added hundreds of amazing features to Mattermost. We’re reflecting on how we got here—and what we’re doing next to build an even stronger community for our contributors.

Use Case: Using Maintenance Windows to Set Up Alert Schedules

For many of our users reacting to downtime data sent from a monitoring system such as StatusCake.com is a 24 hour job, and the process incorporates many staff who will have varying responsibilities, and sometimes work quite different hours. This is particularly true of companies who run “follow-the-sun” with their global dev-ops teams picking up the baton from the last as their time zone starts its working day.

Migrating to 2.0: the good, the bad & the ugly

The Sensu 2.0 release is dropping in October, and we’re already excited! As the version numbering implies, Sensu 2.0 includes significant changes from Sensu 1.x. Not only has the software been entirely re-engineered in Go — easing deployment significantly — the exposed APIs and internal data structures have changed to accommodate new features.

Raygun and Java: Better error monitoring with Breadcrumbs and more

Raygun Crash Reporting has supported the Java Framework since we launched. As a Java customer, you’ve always been able to catch errors pre and post-production, receive alerts, and provide one source of truth for errors on your whole team. Now, Raygun provides full feature support for Raygun4Java. Java customers now have access to all our favorite Raygun features, like Breadcrumbs, offline support, web service support, and sensitive data filtering.

Get your sheet together: how to create an incident communication plan

Downtime happens. While it can certainly be chaotic and stressful, if handled properly, it can also be a chance to build customer trust and loyalty. The way you respond to and communicate around incidents and downtime tells customers a lot about what you value. Therefore, it’s essential to show customers you value them by communicating early, often, and candidly during an incident.