I’m Tim, a Product Design Manager at LogDNA and a massive coffee and magic enthusiast. My team is responsible for creating a beautiful and easy-to-navigate user interface so that you can easily access, and gain value from, your logs. We’ve been working on making our product more accessible and are about to roll out some subtle changes.
Your engineers probably dislike going on-call for your services. Some might even dread it. It doesn't have to be this way. With a few changes to how your team runs on-call, and deals with recurring alerts, you might find your team starting to enjoy it (as unimaginable as that sounds). I wrote this article as a follow-up to Getting over on-call anxiety.
Welcome back to another edition of “Build Things on Purpose.” This time Jason is joined by Zack Butcher, a founding engineer at Tetrate. They also break down Istio’s ins and outs and the lessons learned there, the role of open source projects and their reception, and more. Tune in to this episode and others for all things chaos engineering!
Archiving is in and your logs are here to stay! We develop features that streamline the log management processes for our users. Logs are information assets, and we understand that you need to retrieve, re-asses and draw insights from your historic logs. observIQ offers a simple integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for extended retention. It takes less than 30 seconds to set up and archive logs directly to an S3 bucket in your AWS account.
When you’re troubleshooting an application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the more context that you have on the issue, the faster you can resolve it. For example, did the pod exceed it’s memory allocation? Was there a permissions error reserving the storage volume? Did a rogue regex in the app pin the CPU? All of these questions require developers and operators to build a lot of troubleshooting context.
The power of community makes Grafana one of the most composable platforms for monitoring and observability across a wide variety of use cases. The Grafana Plugin Directory features not just plugins created by our team here at Grafana Labs, but by Grafana community members all over the world. It’s the best place to browse for new data source integrations, panels, and applications you can install on your dashboard to extend Grafana’s functionality.
Komodor is a Kubernetes-native platform we’ve created to streamline troubleshooting. It was born out of frustrations we felt as developers, when we were required to waste hours of our time on troubleshooting, instead of focusing on what we really wanted to do - creating and innovating. Komodor sits on top of your K8s cluster and integrates with every existing tool you have, be it CI/CD, repo, monitoring, alerting, or communication.
Software asset management (SAM) is an important part of your ITSM toolkit. According to an industry-wide report, the SAM market is estimated to expand to USD 3.82 Billion by 2026 at a CAGR of 14%. This number alone underscores its importance to the overall ITSM operations within an organization. Investments in SAM, today will translate to better efficiency and customer satisfaction in the long run.
Django is the most popular web development framework for the Python programming language. Its design facilitates rapid development without compromising on the standards of professionally built applications. It is free, open source, uses the Model-View-Template architectural pattern, and encapsulates a lot of boilerplates to enable developers churn out web apps quickly.
