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Learn the different cloud service types: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

In previous and great articles in here, we already talked about what Cloud is and the types that exist floating above our heads. But today, for a change, we want to focus more on one of its totally forgotten key aspects: Are clouds actually made of childish dreams and cotton candy? No! Just kidding! Today we are going to talk in “Pandora FMS discussions” about what cloud service types there are.

Website Monitoring: Best Practices

In theory, the default monitoring check settings should work in the majority of cases. However, everyday practice shows that our case does not belong to this majority. Therefore, it is necessary and worthwhile to dedicate some time to the optimal configuration of monitoring. It is also important to properly prepare the monitored website and the organization itself.

VMware Tanzu Application Service 2.10 Adds New CLI, Eases Upgrades with More Flexible Control Plane

VMware Tanzu Application Service 2.10 is now generally available (GA) on the Tanzu Network. As SpringOne approaches, it’s only fitting to have a new Tanzu Application Service release to talk about. Spring and Tanzu Application Service is the dynamic duo that drives superior business outcomes for enterprises around the world.

4 Secrets to Remote Agile Success

Agile teams are designed to respond to change. But even for the most seasoned agile teams, responding to the changes brought about by COVID-19 was a pretty tall order. This is the story of how one agile team responded to the abrupt transition to remote work without missing a beat, and without losing its sense of synergy. If you’re in need of some tips on how agile software teams can maintain both their productivity and their morale while remote, this post is for you.

Track What You're About To Deploy

In order to have the most successful deployment, there are a few best practices that software development teams should be mindful of. First, following a continuous delivery approach allows software development teams to release in shorter cycles, so that building, testing, and releasing can be done with greater speed and reduced error rates.

Java Logging Best Practices: 10+ Tips You Should Know to Get the Most Out of Your Logs

Having visibility into your Java application is crucial for understanding how it works right now, how it worked some time in the past and increasing your understanding of how it might work in the future. More often than not, analyzing logs is the fastest way to detect what went wrong, thus making logging in Java critical to ensuring the performance and health of your app, as well as minimizing and reducing any downtime.

How to stream Graphite metrics to Grafana Cloud using carbon-relay-ng

In this post we’ll show how you can easily ship your existing Graphite metrics to Grafana’s managed metric offering using carbon-relay-ng. Carbon-relay-ng is a fast, go-based carbon-relay replacement that allows you to easily aggregate, filter and route your Graphite metrics. This post assumes you have a local carbon-relay-ng binary. You can download carbon-relay-ng binaries from the releases page and find documentation on Docker images, Linux packages, and how to build it yourself here.

Asynchronous CSV Exports with Discover

For as long as we can remember, Sentry has had some version of CSV Exports. They’ve been limited only 1000 rows of results, which did the job for the most part. However, the more you used Sentry, the more we found that limit wasn’t good enough. What if I told you there was a way to get all your data in the exports in a single CSV? That’s right, no more DIY python scripts. No more manually piecing CSVs together. No more feature-request tickets.

Tutorial: Kubernetes-Native Backup and Recovery With Stash

Having a proper backup recovery plan is vital to any organization's IT operation. However, when you begin to distribute workloads across data centers and regions, that process begins to become more and more complex. Container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes have begun to ease this burden and enabled the management of distributed workloads in areas that were previously very challenging.