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New in Grafana 9: Role-based access control (RBAC) is now GA

Role-based access control (RBAC), previously referred to as fine-grained access control (FGAC), is Grafana’s new authorization system. It was introduced as a beta feature in Grafana 8.0 release a year ago, and we’re now excited to promote it to general availability status. With the release of Grafana 9.0 during GrafanaCONline 2022, RBAC is enabled by default for all instances. (The easiest way to get started with Grafana 9? Sign up for a free Grafana Cloud account today.)

June releases: discover a faster and more intuitive FireHydrant

It’s been a busy month at FireHydrant. We’ve had our heads down shipping loads of improvements across the platform, and I want to take you on a quick tour of the changes. At the core of all these updates is a common theme: things are now a heck of a lot more intuitive. There’s a lot to digest here; read the full roundup of June releases below or follow us on Twitter for a bite-size demo each day this week.

See Current Core Web Vitals with Chrome

Google is using Core Web Vitals as a factor in search results rankings. They’ve also found that improving Core Web Vitals can lead to increased traffic, sales and ultimately conversions. But how can you see your Core Web Vitals easily? Request Metrics is the best solution for monitoring Core Web Vitals across your entire site, but if you just want a quick way to see the Core Web Vitals directly from your browser - check this out.

How To Prepare for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Interview

Site reliability engineering continues to gain traction in software development and IT. SRE is at the crossroads of software development and IT operations. In Ben Treynor’s words, SRE is “what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations function.” Site reliability engineering is a way for developers to actively build services and functions to improve the resilience of people, processes and technical systems.

What's A Sysadmin? The System Administrator Role Explained

For decades, system administrators have worked largely in the shadows to maintain the accessibility and uptime of your most important IT services. And, while the rise of DevOps and cloud computing has led to more people with a hybrid sysadmin/developer skillset, the primary duties of a system administrator will always be required.

An Overview of Microsoft Azure Services

Azure is the public cloud computing platform of Microsoft and it offers: Azure comprises more than 600 cloud services and supports varied operating systems, databases and developer tools. And the best part (in our opinion)? Splunk On-Call integrates with Microsoft Azure to help on-call teams improve incident response for Azure-based environments.

Sensu Integration Catalog: One Static API to Rule Them All

ICYMI: in Part 1 of this blog post, I introduced Sensu Catalog Integrations, one of the three components that make the Sensu marketplace work. In this post, I want to cover the second piece, the Catalog API generator. This is the tool that consumes the github.com/sensu/catalog repository content and renders static http API content the Sensu web app can consume.