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Sequential-storage Efficiently Store Data in Flash

While using a full-blown filesystem for storing your data in non-volatile memory is common practice, those filesystems are often too big, not to mention annoying to use, for the things I want to do. My solution? I’ve been hard at work creating the sequential-storage crate. In this blog post I’d like to go over what it is, why I created it and what it does.

Manage Your Pino Logs with AppSignal

We're excited to announce that AppSignal now supports Pino logs, making managing and monitoring your logging data easier than ever. By sending Pino logs directly to AppSignal, you can consolidate all your data in one place, giving you a clear overview of your app's performance for faster troubleshooting. Importantly, AppSignal now also works with Fastify 5, making it a great choice for Fastify developers looking for an APM that integrates seamlessly with their stack.

Auto-resolution for scheduled maintenance

We’ve been listening to your feedback, and we’re excited to roll out the new Automatic Maintenance Resolution feature! Now, when you schedule maintenance, your service status will automatically update to “Resolved” at the scheduled end time, and any affected monitors will also switch back to “UP.” This makes managing your maintenance events even easier, without the need for manual updates.

Reduce application exploitation opportunities with cloud endpoint security protection

It’s no surprise to say that today’s digital business environment is incredibly dynamic. And the proliferation of distributed devices and applications has been a key part of that. The problem this has created? An increased exploitation of endpoint applications, jeopardizing data security and disrupting operations. Yet companies have limited security resources for coping with these risks. But businesses can mitigate them by moving to the cloud.

Ask the Expert: Insights from Paula Thrasher, Senior Director of Infrastructure and Platform, PagerDuty

In this blog post, Paul Thrasher, Senior Director of Infrastructure and Platform at PagerDuty, provides her takes on the challenges and opportunities facing tech leaders today. From managing complexity to driving operational resilience, Thrasher shares expert insights on how executives can get ahead of disruptions.

Grafana Beyla: what's new and what's next for the open source eBPF auto-instrumentation tool

It’s been a year since Grafana Labs announced the general availability of Grafana Beyla, our open source OpenTelemetry and Prometheus eBPF auto-instrumentation tool to help you easily get started with application observability. As a Beyla maintainer, I wanted to take a minute to reflect on what we’ve accomplished with Grafana Beyla since then, what we have learned about supporting an eBPF tool in production, and, in general, how exciting this whole journey has been.

Drain the Data Swamp! Tagging your Data in a Data Lake to help Organize and Optimize Search

Sending events into a data lake can make it challenging to find and organize them. Using tagging with Cribl Lake in conjunction with Cribl Search across a primary data source will increase speed of analysis and reduce costs, as well as help keep your data organized. This scenario involves us performing an investigation for an incident that occurred where our systems indicated unusual activity from an IP address of aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.

Application Experience - Amplifying Observability for Today's Experiential World

Nexthink’s industry-leading Experience 24 Events in Boston and London brought together over 1000 IT professionals dedicated to accelerating the value of strategic adoption of DEX. A hot topic was the growing recognition that traditional Observability solutions (APM’s and other high-cardinality technology monitoring solutions) while necessary, are insufficient to solve the full, end-to-end visibility of how employees are experiencing the totality of their web applications.