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5 tips for a more modern and efficient on-call management

‍ On-call management is one of the most important aspects of seamless IT service. Its aim is to ensure that the right person is notified in the case of an incident, so that they can react accordingly as quickly as possible. In certain cases, many people have to be notified. To achieve this as efficiently as possible, it is vital to have an up-to-date and smoothly functioning system.

8 Redis Monitoring Tools To Check Out

The open-source data platform Redis, based on in-memory data, is complicated enough when hosted only on one server. Therefore, a critical aspect of Redis management is monitoring its performance. Despite serving a vast number of queries, Redis is known for its low latency response time. Keeping track of your Redis instance's performance can be done by monitoring certain vital metrics. As well as storing data in memory and on disk simultaneously, Redis stands apart from most other databases.

Logging and global error handling in .NET 7 WPF applications

While developing elmah.io support for WPF, I had the chance to look into WPF for the first time in many years. I couldn't stop myself from digging down into all sorts of details about how logging has evolved in WPF since I last wrote a WPF app. In this post, I'll share some of the findings I made in this rediscovering journey.

Top 5 Tools for Rebranding Your Company Website

For a successful online business, branding is an essential aspect to consider. It transforms your business from a commodity found anywhere on the market into something special that only you can offer. Lucky for you, there are many apps and tools that can help your business thrive, scale up and improve its online presence, thus beating the competition.

Prioritizing Platform Stability at One of FastCo.'s Most Innovative Companies of 2022

The fitness industry is no stranger to ‘smart’ equipment, and what distinguishes one product from another ultimately comes down to user experience. Product success depends on stability, something top of mind for developers at Tonal. Ranked as one of New York Magazine’s best smart home training solutions 2022 and Men’s Health’s best connected cable machine 2022, Tonal literally sets the bar for smart home trainers.

The Case for Monitoring as Code

You build it; you own it! It’s a simple mantra that has driven software development for years. The days of writing software and throwing it over the wall to operations teams are over. Instead, software development teams take ownership of what they do and own their own software operations. There is just one problem: Monitoring tools have not yet adopted the developer workflow. As a developer, the repository is the center of the workflow. It's the one single source of truth.

How to Augment an Existing Data Lake with Exabeam and Cribl Stream

Organizations have different data lakes they use to search, whether it is Splunk, Qradar, or Sumo Logic just to name a few. Exabeam (UEBA Advanced Analytics) sits on top of those existing data lakes and pulls specific sources by running continuous queries every few minutes into Exabeam. The image below shows a Splunk query to pull windows event logs into Exabeam Advanced Analytics over the port (8089). The query is complex.

A complete guide to managing Grafana as code: tools, tips, and tricks

We all know about the great things Grafana dashboards can do, and configuring them as code makes it possible to get even more out of them. These days, Grafana resources can mostly be managed as code in a declarative manner, which enables code review, code reuse, and in general, better workflows. This guide presents a few as code tools you can use to declaratively manage Grafana resources, plus some tips and tricks on how to incorporate them efficiently into your own use cases.

Six things you didn't know you could do with CircleCI Insights

There are hundreds of capabilities on CircleCI that were designed to create the best possible CI/CD experience for our users. But one feature that users often point to as the most valuable on the platform is the CircleCI Insights dashboard. The Insights dashboard provides full visibility into metrics like job status, duration monitoring, and solutions for pipeline optimization.