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Targeting hosts and services in Icinga 2 API requests

Today, we are going to take a look at the Icinga 2 API and the various ways targets can be specified for different actions, such as querying information or scheduling downtimes. This post focuses on the API request payloads themselves and assumes some familiarity with sending requests to the Icinga 2 API. Please refer to our documentation for the missing details if you want to try the requests yourself. In general, specifying the objects to which an action applies works the same way for all actions.

Shift Left on Performance Testing - Without Killing Developer Velocity

Traditional performance testing often comes late in the delivery cycle, typically just before release. By then, performance issues are usually quite expensive to fix, can delay deployments, and frustrate development velocity. A Shift Left testing approach addresses this by integrating performance testing early in the development cycle so issues surface while they’re still easy and cheap to fix.

Don't Just Monitor SLAs - Validate Them Automatically

Service level agreements (SLAs) are the contractual backbone between customers and technology vendors, outlining expected service availability, performance metrics, and remedies like service credits when service providers fail to meet agreed-upon service levels. This service agreement assures both the technical quality as well as the service quality of the services provided, and underpins the value perspective of the client.

Best of both worlds: relaxAI API brings sovereignty and affordability to OpenAI

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently published its final verdict on the state of the cloud industry. While the tone may have softened since its initial findings, the conclusion was still damning: hyperscalers like AWS and Microsoft continue to unfairly dominate the cloud market through opaque, inflated pricing and technical lock-in strategies.

Transforming Snapshots with Templates

Ever wished you could save and reuse your API traffic transformations? With Speedscale's new snapshot templates feature, you can! In this demo, we'll walk you through how to: Find and filter API traffic to create a snapshot. Transform sensitive data, like authentication tokens, with templates. Apply those saved templates to new snapshots instantly, saving you time and ensuring consistency. Whether you're looking to automate your testing or handle sensitive data more efficiently, our new templates feature makes it easier than ever to manage your API snapshots.

AI-Driven Application Monitoring with Checkly and Claude Code

In this webinar, Stefan Judis (Developer Relations at Checkly) and Dan Giordano (VP of Marketing at Checkly) dive into how LLMs and AI tools can be used with application monitoring. You’ll see a live demos of integrating Claude Code, Playwright MCP, and Checkly’s Monitoring as Code. ⸻ Timestamps ⸻ Resources & Next Steps ⸻ Subscribe for more sessions on application reliability, testing, and AI-powered DevOps!

Your APIs Are Green. Your Background Jobs Are Dying.

Launch Week Day 2: Introducing Discover Jobs Your dashboard looks perfect. APIs responding in 80ms. Error rates at 0.02%. Kubernetes pods healthy. Everything's green. Then Slack explodes: "Why didn't my invoice generate?" "Where's my password reset email?" "The data export I requested yesterday is still processing?" You check your job queue. Sidekiq dashboard shows 47,000 jobs processed today. Redis looks fine. Workers are running. But somehow, your business logic is silently falling apart.

Zero Trust Architecture Needs Zero Guesswork

The Zero Trust model has fundamentally shifted how organizations secure their applications and infrastructure. Instead of assuming anything inside your network is safe, the Zero Trust security model requires continuous verification of every identity, every device, and every access request across the entire trust model, forcing users and devices to prove that they can access what they are trying to access.

Honeycomb Launches Integration With the Anthropic Usage and Cost API

If your organization is anything like ours, then you’ve probably embraced using large language models like Claude. Just last week, we gave all Honeycomb employees access to Claude. Now, developers can generate AI-assisted code, product managers can perform analysis on customer usage trends, marketers can test messaging, sales can do customer discovery and we are shipping AI-powered features to improve user experience.