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Top 3 Reporting Software of 2019

Reporting software is a part of a Business Intelligence or BI suite and is used for analysis in early data processing. The purpose of self-service reporting software is to help deliver interactive information that can be put into action. Self-service reporting software allows the user to connect data sources, extract data and present it in various formats of visualization, including charts, tables, and spreadsheets.

Demonware's journey to assisted remediation

At Monitorama 2018, Engineering Manager Kale Stedman shared Demonware’s journey to assisted remediation, or as he likes to call it: “How my team nearly built an auto-remediation system before we realized we never actually wanted one in the first place.” In this post, I’ll recap Kale’s Monitorama talk, highlighting the key decisions that helped his team reduce daily alerts, fix underlying problems, and establish a more engaged Monitoring Team — including the steps the

The Complete Guide to Azure Monitoring

Monitoring an Azure environment can be a challenging task for even the most experienced and skilled team. Applications deployed on Azure are built on top of an architecture that is distributed and extremely dynamic. But all is not doom and gloom. Azure users have a variety of tools they can use to overcome the different challenges involved in monitoring their stack, helping them gain insight into the different components of their apps and troubleshoot issues when they occur.

Understanding Heroku Error Codes with Scout APM

If you are hosting your application with Heroku, and find yourself faced with an unexplained error in your live system. What would you do next? Perhaps you don’t have a dedicated DevOps team, so where would you start your investigation? With Scout APM of course! We are going to show you how you can use Scout to find out exactly where the problem lies within your application code.

Grafana Tutorial: Simple Synthetic Monitoring for Applications

Often there’s a focus on how a service is running from the perspective of the organization. But what does service health monitoring look like from the perspective of a user? There are many metrics that indicate the overall health of a container, vm, or application, but independently they do not indicate if the system is functioning correctly. Often these metrics (CPU, disk, memory) are too narrow, and they can be poor indicators. High CPU may be desirable or bursts of memory usage may be normal.

Kubernetes: Tackling Resource Consumption

This is the third of a series of three articles focusing on Kubernetes security: the outside attack, the inside attack, and dealing with resource consumption or noisy neighbors. A concern for many administrators setting up a multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster is how to prevent a co-tenant from becoming a “noisy neighbor,” one who monopolizes CPU, memory, storage and other resources.

Paul Dix [InfluxData] | InfluxDB 2.0 and Flux - The Road Ahead | InfluxDays London 2019

Paul will continue to chart the road ahead by outlining the next phase of development for InfluxDB 2.0 and for Flux, InfluxData’s new data scripting and query language. He will discuss Flux’s role in multi-data source environments and explain how InfluxDB can be deployed in on-premise, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments.

Julius Volz [Prometheus] | Creating the PromQL Transpiler for Flux | InfluxDays London 2019

Flux is not only a new data scripting and query language — it is also a powerful data processing engine. This talk by Julius Volz will focus on how he worked with the InfluxData team to build PromQL support for the Flux engine. Hear about lessons learned from building the transpiler and recommendations on why and how to use PromQL and Flux. This talk will include a demo and will share the current project progress.