TimeShift is back after a few weeks away with a lot of updates to share. Nearly all of the Videos and presentations from GrafanaCon LA are available, so please check them out and let us know what you think. Also, if you hadn’t heard, Grafana v6.0 stable was recently released which has lots of new features and enhancements. Download the latest version v6.0.1 and read about the highlights below.
Don’t you just hate it when APIs are failing and you have absolutely no clue why? Now imagine you don’t have access to the VM, cluster or container where your software is running. Want me to continue with this nightmare? Yes, that’s what debugging AWS Lambda functions tends to seem like. A horrid nightmare of not knowing what is happening nor why things are failing. This article will show you a way of logging function invocations.
They say knowledge is power and today, there is no greater source of knowledge than data. It is well documented that businesses produce a vast amount of data whether it be in manufacturing, IT, UX, Marketing, Sales or Finance. Collectively, all of this data can provide you with business intelligence, enabling you to optimize decisions, improve collaboration, and increase overall performance.
Grafana isn’t just being used for monitoring applications. Andrew Rodgers, Senior Systems Architect at New City Energy, spoke in Amsterdam at GrafanaCon EU 2018 about how his organization is using Grafana to measure energy usage in municipal buildings in Washington D.C. for the Department of General Services (DGS).
Alerts are a core part of monitoring systems. Using alerts keeps you aware of changes within your infrastructure and applications, helping you identify and respond to issues faster. Log management solutions like LogDNA provide an ideal environment for configuring alerts, since it allows you to create detailed alerts based on your log data. Rather than manually search for problems, you can use alerts to scan your log data in real-time and receive immediate notifications on potential problems.
Customer success can be a serious differentiator and competitive advantage for companies today. Everyone wants to ship quality products to their customers faster, and the rise of subscription-based pricing and SaaS applications in the last decade means that ensuring customer success is a more critical part of the business than ever.
