Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Alan and Lee talk about the journey of Cloudsmith, and how we got to where we're at today with the latest pricing announcement.

Incident management is a practice that seeks to resolve business-impacting events in the most efficient manner possible. But not every problem that arises requires an incident response, and it’s crucial that teams know the difference between a problem and an incident. Responding to problems may be part of daily routines, or small ad hoc projects that don’t require more than one resource or a significant time commitment.

More often than not, as developers, when we get a report that a large customer is hitting 502 errors, there's a flurry of activity. What's wrong? Is something deeply broken? So you start digging through AWS logs to see what you can find, but it's hard to reproduce. Sometimes, there's no clear answer, and you move on without any resolution. What if I told you it doesn't have to be this way?

It’s been twenty years since the corporate scandals of Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco. The collapse of these giant corporations ruined the lives of the employees who tirelessly worked for leaders who let greed dictate their decision-making. Laws have been implemented since then to help reduce the risk of another Enron, but laws won’t stop all instances of poor leadership. Poor tone at the top increases vulnerabilities, employee non-compliance, and job dissatisfaction.

The new Sqlyze data source plugin (in beta) allows you to connect your Grafana instance to all your favorite SQL databases, many NoSQL databases, and many other non-SQL data sources — from document databases, to ERP systems, to even Slack. You don’t have to know the native query syntax for these data sources; you can just use SQL. The Sqlyze plugin uses ODBC at its core. Hundreds of ODBC drivers are available for various databases/data sources.

Everybody is used to dealing with the bugs on their smartphone and other technology devices In their homes that have been an issue for years. The fact that they may never be resolved is just one of those things that we’ve decided to accept. At Cribl, we approach this situation differently — we’re not okay with bugs of any size.

Without logs, or a good understanding of them, debugging an application or looking through an error stack trace can be challenging. Luckily, Flask logging can change the way you understand debugging and how you interact with logs produced by the application. The Flask logging module gives you a way to record errors over different severity levels. A default logging module is included in the Python standard library, and it provides both simple and advanced logging functions.

The explosive growth of ecommerce has slowed in the last year. But the need for businesses to deliver a great digital user experience continues to grow. Companies that don’t rely on online customer purchases can still suffer blows to revenues due to a poor online experience. Market conditions are raising the importance of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools to ensure every digital interaction with your company is positive. APM tools vary by design, features and functionality.

Each device's overall health and security affect the overall organization, and if an endpoint is not in good health, it could be a significant security risk. For example, the IDC discovered that endpoints such as laptops, desktops, or mobile devices are the origin of 70% of successful breaches. Because those endpoints often serve as a gateway for a security breach, robust endpoint management is essential for today’s modern organizations.

There are few organizations left today without some of their business operating in the cloud. A recent IDG Cloud Computing Study found that 92% of businesses globally moved to the cloud. According to Gartner, cloud adoption spending will surge to about $482 billion by the end of 2022. Most companies make the move to take advantage of the speed, innovation, and flexibility offered by cloud computing solutions. Operating in the cloud can also provide cost savings and improved productivity.