In this post, I will walk you through creating a simple Prometheus monitoring stack, connecting it to Grafana for pretty dashboards, and finally configuring alerts via PagerTree.

As re:Invent continues, so to does the string of announcements promising to change the face of cloud computing. Many of the major announcements today came from Amazon itself — amongst other items, AWS announced two new containerized cloud offerings.

This month we released a new version of our hex package, which includes a major refactor of the internal client logic as well as some new features, improvements, and bug fixes. We're super excited to share the release of honeybadger v0.7 with you! Here are the highlights.

There are millions of reasons why sites go down. It could be an equipment malfunction or server overload. You might also experience data center problems, or you were just careless enough to forget to renew your domain name. Even worse, your site could be a hacker victim. Regardless of the cause, you need to resolve the problem as soon as it starts, because downtime can hurt your business.

For cloud security managers, re:Invent is almost a Christmas morning of security announcements, new feature sets, and demonstrations designed to convey important lessons gleaned throughout the previous year. re:Invent 2017 is shaping up to be no exception, with a veritable bevy of content to discuss.

Day two of re:Invent has shaped up to be just as interesting as the first, with some very interesting announcements from some rather large hitters. Let’s take a look at today’s announcements in this, the second part of our ongoing re:Invent coverage.