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Microservice Choreography and Triaging Errors with Elastic Observability and the Elastic Stack

Brolly is Australia’s leading social media archiving service, comprising dozens of microservices deployed to Kubernetes. Learn how Brolly leverages the Elastic Stack to collect pod and infrastructure logs, keep track of failures in the data pipeline, and identify and recover from errors. Speakers: Salman Ahmed, Solutions Architect, Brolly Omid Mirzaei, Software Engineer, Brolly

Atlassian: Accelerating Observability in the Data Age

Atlassian, a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, aims to merge the analytics and observability space to deliver consistent, reliable experiences to customers. See how Atlassian manages its DevOps environment to drive business transformation. Colby Funnell, Head of Observability, also shares the company’s vision for OpenTelemetry.

What is eBPF and Why is it Important for Observability?

Observability is one of the most popular topics in technology at the moment, and that isn’t showing any sign of changing soon. Agentless log collection, automated analysis, and machine learning insights are all features and tools that organizations are investigating to optimize their systems’ observability. However, there is a new kid on the block that has been gaining traction at conferences and online: the Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, or eBPF. So, what is eBPF?

Why you Need WiFi Observability in the Era of Work From Anywhere

“Work from anywhere” is now a common occurrence. With so many companies now dependent on a distributed workforce, IT teams need to be able to quickly diagnose and troubleshoot WiFi problems. Moreover, they, themselves, are often working remotely. In order to successfully do their jobs, consistent WiFi is obviously essential for remote workers.

How Sentry Fed the Code Observability Revolution at Shift

What happens when you have to evolve a monolithic application into a microservices architecture in order to scale a doubling Engineering staff while meeting the expectations of a growing business? Join Aaron Chu, Senior Director of Technical Operations and Karan Gupta, CTO at Shift, a modern tech company disrupting the used car industry, as they share Shift’s journey to define their Observability culture. They’ll walk through how Shift uses Sentry to ensure accountability and empower engineers to improve overall outcomes.

Tracing makes a bug easy to spot

Today, I found a bug before I noticed it. Like, it was subtle, and so I wasn’t quite sure I saw it—maybe I hadn’t hit refresh yet? Later, I looked at the trace of my function and, boom, there was a clear bug. Here’s the function with the bug. It responds to a request to /win by saving a record of the win and returning the total of my winnings so far. Can you spot the problem in the TypeScript? It’s subtle. Now here’s a trace in Honeycomb: Now do you see the bug?

Elastic Observability 7.16: Ad hoc analytics and CI/CD pipeline visibility

Elastic Observability 7.16 introduces curated data exploration views for ad hoc analysis and further extends visibility into complex and distributed systems with the general availability (GA) of dozens of prebuilt Elastic Agent data integrations, observability tooling for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and a new native data source integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) FireLens. These new features allow customers to.

4 Steps to Making Observability Real for Your Team

Without unified observability, it’s stressful not having complete visibility into your application. Plus, it contributes to risky deployments. Yet we hear that many developers have poor visibility into what powers production code. Without transparency into their apps, developers cannot see: You can try navigating tickets, permissions, and dashboards that don’t tell the right story, but there are ways to solve this problem.

Why observability is the way to go w/ Georg Höllebauer (APA-Tech) | The StackPod EP #2

Welcome to the second episode of the StackPod! For the second episode, we invited Georg Höllebauer. Georg is an enterprise metrics architect at APA-Tech. APA-Tech is responsible for all IT services within the Austrian Press Agency - Austria's national and largest press agency - and other customers.