Grafana is a widely used open-source platform for monitoring and visualization. Grafana has a lot of built-in functionality and also provides a large amount of community templates that can improve your overall experience. However, Grafana requires quite a lot of configuration and the documentation can be a bit overwhelming for beginners. In this article, we explore seven alternatives that can be simpler to use and can provide seamless integration of traces, logs, and metrics.

I run a small Kubernetes cluster at home, which I originally set up as somewhere to experiment. Because it started as a playground, I never bothered to set up monitoring. However, as time passed, I’ve ended up dropping more production-esque workloads onto it, so I decided I should probably put some observability in place. Not having visibility into the cluster was actually a little odd, considering that even my fish tank can page me.

While it’s easy to think that everything is now in the cloud, there are still some use cases and some businesses that need private data centres. In this blog, we look at the benefits of colocation and explore the key considerations for businesses when choosing colocation services. Colocation, often shortened to ‘colo’, is a service provided by data centre owners and operators where the floor space and facilities, including electricity and connectivity, are rented to private enterprises.

Ralph Marsten once said, “Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.” Many organizations today seem to follow the opposite. If everything looks green on a dashboard, they assume all is well. But is it?

The cloud has become an essential tool for businesses looking to scale, innovate, and remain competitive. But migrating to the cloud is not as simple as flipping a switch. The process requires careful planning, robust strategies, and a deep understanding of the potential risks and rewards. That’s why having a well-defined cloud migration strategy is crucial.

Big data has the potential to transform how organizations manage and apply knowledge in their projects, helping teams make better decisions, improve project outcomes, and foster continuous learning. But how exactly do these two concepts—big data and knowledge management—come together in a meaningful way? And what role does project learning play in connecting the dots?

Consistency is key in today’s ultra-competitive retail environment. Whether a customer walks into a store in New York City, London, or Tokyo, or shops online, they expect the same seamless and personalized shopping experience, regardless of where they are. These consistent experiences are what creates customer loyalty and keep them coming back From an IT perspective, delivering these experiences across multiple distributed locations presents unique challenges.

tldr: This post discusses how to measure CDN request locality without indexing a single log. The function of a CDN is to bring cacheable data, like pictures & videos, physically closer to your customers. This reduces latencies, and load on your backend servers. When measuring CDNs, there are some very common metrics.

Chaos Monkey is an open-source tool. Its primary use is to check system reliability against random instance failures. Chaos Monkey follows the testing concept of chaos engineering, which prepares networked systems for resilience against random and unpredictable chaotic conditions. Let’s take a deeper look.

Just as every organization should have a business plan, every organization should also have an IT strategy that supports that business plan. This article offers an overview of what an IT strategy is, what it does for an organization, and the key components that should go into an IT strategy.