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Aggregating logs with Graylog - A quick how-to guide

Graylog’s log aggregation features are useful for a lot of tasks, ranging from regular troubleshooting to detecting issues as soon as they become manifest. Optimizing log management by aggregating all meaningful data is a quick and efficient way to isolate any problem to root causes and solve it with minimal impact on services. Aggregated data is easier to parse and analyze – you can reduce the number of data points in a meaningful way and obtain the answer you need from them.

8 Top Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Tools

By Des Nnochiri Robotic process automation, or RPA, promises to increase efficiency and improve work rates at reduced cost to the enterprise. In this article, we’ve assembled eight of the top RPA tools currently on the market. Of course, there are considerations to bear in mind before implementing this emerging technology.

Scaling Sensu Go

This time last year, Sensu Go hadn’t been released in General Availability (GA) yet. Now, 10 months later, version 5.14 is in production environments, monitoring infrastructure, applications, and connected devices across public and private clouds. It’s been quite a journey to get to a product that’s both a massive improvement over the original Sensu 1.x and helps customers achieve enterprise-level scale.

Why APM Is Central to DevOps Success

Imagine you’re driving a car, but there’s no windshield. You can’t see in front of you. On top of that, your car is full of friends looking out the side windows and yelling various things to you: “We should turn left!” “No, we should turn right!” “I’m pretty sure the next turn is in two miles.” In this scenario, how likely are you to reach your destination instead of ending up in a ditch or careening off a bridge?

Managing technical risk effectively with Error Budgets

Tradeoffs are hard. Think about the time when you had to choose between two equally compelling options - (a) addressing technical debt or (b) pushing out that long-awaited feature release, and risk breaking production. Or when your team couldn’t agree on where to draw the line on improving request latency versus shipping a major new update.

Managing IT Complexities with Automation

Digital transformation is not just a buzzword. It’s real, it’s happening and there is no escaping it. IT teams strive to propel their businesses towards growth and innovation. That’s why 2019 is all about transformative projects in tech: CIOs are planning to increase their investments in cloud technology (67 per cent), AI and machine learning (54 per cent), and emerging tech vendors (41 per cent).

Real-Time Analytics for Time Series

Let’s start with simple definitions. Time series data is largely what it sounds like – a stream of numerical data representing events that happen in sequence. One can analyze this data for any number of use cases, but here we will be focusing on two: forecasting and anomaly detection. First, you can use time series data to extrapolate the future.

How to Check Your Website Status With an Uptime.com Free Trial

Part of choosing a new website monitoring system should always include trying it out to make sure it’s the best solution for you. That’s why we’ve put together this handy guide. We want you to understand what Uptime.com can do for you and how to test it before becoming a paying customer. Your Uptime.com free trial lasts for 21 days, and we’re here to show you how to make the most of it.

What is Opsgenie?

Opsgenie is a modern incident management solution for operating always-on services, empowering Dev & Ops teams to plan for service disruptions and stay in control during incidents. With over 200 deep integrations and a highly flexible rules engine, Opsgenie centralizes alerts, notifies the right people reliably, and enables them to collaborate and take rapid action.