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Most organizations today have a large digital presence, and some rely significantly on their web applications to provide value to their customers and generate income. Keeping your website up and running 24/7 isn't enough in today's digital world. To provide a better experience, you should optimize your web pages frequently. Slow-loading pages or those that aren't mobile-friendly might cause an increase in bounce rate as well as influence your search engine rankings.

We’re building incident.io as the single place you turn to when things go wrong. When an issue is disrupting your business-as-usual, the last thing you want is to start opening ten different tools to diagnose and fix it! As your central incident hub, we need to give you two powers: Workflows cover the former. Workflows are like a mini incident.io Zapier.

In Part 1 of this series, we started to compare the uses of Kafka and MQTT within an IoT infrastructure. It was concluded that in a basic publish-and-subscribe model of an IoT device, Kafka might simply be overkill.

The education industry has lots of assets and pieces of equipment that need to be managed in the right way. However, most of their assets are lost, misplaced, or need to be repaired. The reason all these problems occur is because of the mismanagement of assets. The solution is simple, that is asset management software that is built to resolve all these types of problems. What is an asset management and how important it is for the education sector? That we will cover in this blog now.

The Kubernetes integration for Grafana Cloud helps users easily monitor and alert on core Kubernetes metrics using the Grafana Agent, our lightweight observability data collector optimized for sending metric, log, and trace data to Grafana Cloud. It packages together a set of easy-to-deploy manifests for the Agent, along with prebuilt dashboards and alerts.

Since we launched Grafana Mimir — the most scalable, most performant open source time series database in the world — we have answered many of your questions about our latest open source project, including how to pronounce it. (All together now: /mɪ’mir/.) We have also walked through how we scaled Grafana Mimir to 1 billion active series.

As the Azure cloud administrator, you need to know who is accessing your cloud resources, how they are access it, what they access, what changed, when they access and from where, etc? Azure AD (Azure Active Directory) provides answers to above by storing the information in two logs, the information stored in them is extremely valuable for troubleshooting, monitoring and for general security related work, the logs are.

When you’re troubleshooting an issue, finding the root cause often involves finding specific logs generated by infrastructure and application code. The faster you can find logs, the faster you can confirm or refute your hypothesis about the root cause and resolve the issue! Today, we’re pleased to announce a dramatically simpler way to find logs in Logs Explorer.

Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a routing security framework that provides a mechanism for validating the correct originating autonomous system (AS) and prefix length of a BGP route. Route Origin Authorization (ROA) is a cryptographically signed object within the RPKI that asserts the correct originating AS and prefix length of a BGP route. For as long as the internet has existed, the challenge of securing its underlying protocols has persisted.

Do you know how to improve project transparency? ‍ If you are trying to unlock higher levels of team productivity, you need to consider project transparency. When it comes to pushing projects forward and making progress, all key stakeholders must have access to the information they need to effectively complete tasks. Sometimes, it’s impossible to predict what information stakeholders will need to access. ‍