In an era dominated by data-driven decision making, monitoring tools play an indispensable role in ensuring that our systems run efficiently and without interruption. When considering tools like Netdata and Prometheus, performance isn't just a number; it's about empowering users with real-time insights and enabling them to act with agility.

Companies implement an Incident Response process to promptly resolve critical issues. Setting up escalation policies to notify engineers is a key step in this process. With traditional escalation policies, alert notifications still get missed which results in higher response times and failure to meet SLAs. So, how can one ensure incident notifications are never missed?

Want to use production traffic with k6? In this k6 tutorial, learn how Speedscale can capture, sanitize, and export production traffic into k6 load tests.

Don: The debate is over - how should you structure your software teams? That question is now answered in this year's State of DevOps report 2023. Other questions answered include: How does AI affect my company and team performance? How can we quantify the impact of culture on performance burnout? What even is culture in the first place? All these things are included in the State of DevOps report 2023. We have a very special guest, Eric Maxwell from the DORA group, to offer his takes on the report.

Missed the last Netdata updates? Here is what is new.

In in order to achieve DevOps success, you must measure how well your DevOps initiatives work. Tracking the right DevOps metrics will help you evaluate the effectiveness of your DevOps practices. In this article, I’ll explain many DevOps metrics, including their significance, the key metrics for various goals, and — best of all — tips for improving the score of each DevOps metric discussed here.

SharePoint Online (SPO) has become a cornerstone for many organizations seeking a robust, scalable, and collaborative platform. It’s a place where teams can seamlessly work together, share documents, and enhance their workflow efficiency. However, while SPO offers a plethora of benefits, the cost associated with its usage can be a potential hurdle, especially for businesses with large volumes of data.

The shift in remote working has seen an increase in demand to utilize smartphones to host meetings, check emails and message colleagues on Microsoft Teams. Keeping up with this trend, the Kelverion team have created a mobile app version of our popular Self-Service Automation Portal, which previously has been a web-based solution typically used on a desktop device. The portal is available for iPhone devices and can be downloaded from iOS app store.

October might be a spooky month, but we’re doing our best to make incidents less scary. We released a number of updates this month that focus on two main areas: Let’s jump in.