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Up Close Monitoring with SignalFlow

It’s April, and that means it’s Mathematics and Statistic Awareness month. And in our everyday world of monitoring and observability, both play an ever-increasing role in how we keep track of our environments, both our apps and our infrastructure. Our world is no longer about just pinging the server/app to make sure “It’s alive!”.

Using Telegraf to Collect Infrastructure Performance Metrics

Telegraf is a server-based agent for collecting all kinds of metrics for further processing. It’s a piece of software that you can install anywhere in your infrastructure and it will read metrics from specified sources – typically application logs, events, or data outputs.

Thoughts On the Codecov Breach

It was revealed just a few days ago that US Federal investigators are looking into an intrusion and insertion of malicious code into Codecov. As many readers here will already know, Codecov is a software auditing tool that analyses your source code to check for the amount of test coverage. The intrusion targeted the Codecov bash uploader, which is a script that provides a way to send coverage reports to Codecov.

Building and running FIPS containers on Ubuntu

Whether running on the public cloud or a private cloud, the use of containers is ingrained in today’s devops oriented workflows. Having workloads set up to run under the mandated compliance requirements is thus necessary to fully exploit the potential of containers. This article focuses on how to build and run containers that comply with the US and Canada government FIPS140-2 data protection standard.

InfluxDB's Checks and Notifications System

InfluxDB 2.0’s Checks and Notifications system is likely the most powerful and flexible system available for creating alerts based on time series data. To get the most out of the system, it is helpful to understand the different pieces and how they fit together. After reading this article, you should be able to create precise alerting using the InfluxDB 2.0 User Interface (UI), as well as be able to extend and customize the system to suit your specific needs.

Top 3 priorities to enhance customer experience

The retail, banking, telecom, and tech sectors have been trying to prove their love of customer experience (CX) for years. But the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to elevate those vital customer relationships. German shoemaker Adidas is a case in point. In November 2020, it reported strong quarter-over-quarter performance.

Announcing Lightrun Cloud: Shifting Left Observability, One Developer at a Time

We’re proud to announce the general availability of Lightrun Cloud – a completely free and self-service version of the Lightrun platform. We consider Lightrun Cloud to be a major milestone in our constant journey to empower developers with better observability tooling and welcome you to sign up for a free account.

Environment variables and Secrets - The Future of Qovery - Week #6

During the next five weeks, our team will work to improve the overall experience of Qovery. We gathered all your feedback (thank you to our wonderful community 🙏), and we decided to make significant changes to make Qovery a better place to deploy and manage your apps. This series will reveal all the changes and features you will get in the next major release of Qovery. Let's go!

Workflow Efficiency Through Workflow Management (Full Guide)

Workflow efficiency has never been more important. As the COVID-19 pandemic tightens purse strings across the globe, organizations of all sizes are looking to get more done with less. Workflows are a vital asset to any organization. It has been found that approximately three hours of every eight-hour workday is wasted on irrelevant or personal tasks.