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Understanding Blameless Postmortems

Progress often accompanies unforeseen challenges and mishaps in organizations. Traditionally, these setbacks resulted in pointing fingers, hindering progress, and creating a negative work atmosphere. However, a "Blameless Postmortems" approach transforms how organizations respond to failure. In this blog, we will delve into the importance of cultivating a blameless postrmortem culture when faced with setbacks.

AWS Cost Allocation: A Guide To Allocating Cloud Spend

Picture this. Over 90% of organizations use the cloud in one form or another, according to O'Reiley's research. Cloud computing is so popular because of its flexibility. Because you can access cloud computing resources on-demand, you can automatically increase or decrease resource usage depending on your workload, which is incredibly appealing — and quite different from traditional IT infrastructure. In 2023, controlling cloud spend is one of the greatest challenges for cloud users today.

Using Grafana and Graphite to monitor server load

Since server outages can lead to a loss of customers, reputation, and other troubles and it is important to get information on the status of the server on time. MetricFire's Hosted Grafana and Graphite will help you monitor server load in a timely and efficient manner. Servers generate a large number of metrics and it is essential to not only track their values but also to observe their changes over time. There is also a possibility to correlate app statistics with server load metrics.

Introducing Squadcast's Key Based Deduplication

We are excited to share another feature update with all our valued customers! We have recently gone live with our Key Based Deduplication feature, enabling you to define dedup keys using customizable templates for configured alert sources. With this feature, you can automatically group similar incidents and effectively deduplicate alerts.

Enhancing the Ubuntu Experience on Azure: Introducing Ubuntu Pro Updates Awareness

Canonical works closely with Microsoft to ensure that running Ubuntu on Azure is a great experience. One of the key aspects of this collaboration is ensuring the longevity and security of Ubuntu releases, such as Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, even beyond their Standard Security Maintenance period. We are excited to announce the integration of Ubuntu Pro update awareness into Azure through the Azure Guest Patching Service (AzGPS) and Update Management Center (UMC).

5 important features to look for in cybersecurity applications

In today’s digital landscape, organizations need the right cybersecurity applications to address evolving cyber threats effectively. To keep security teams aligned and streamline mission-critical workflows, one of the most important cybersecurity applications organizations need is a secure and efficient cybersecurity collaboration platform that enables seamless communication, information sharing, and coordinated incident response.

An Insider Look at Zero Trust with GDIT DevSecOps Experts

As cyber attacks have become ever more sophisticated, the means of protecting against cyber attacks have had to become more stringent. With zero trust security, the model has changed from “trust but verify” to “never trust, always verify.” Joining D2iQ VP of Product Dan Ciruli for an in-depth discussion of zero trust security was Dr. John Sahlin, VP of Cybersolutions at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), and David Sperbeck, DevSecOps Capability Lead at GDIT.

Monitoring Webapp Performance with Sitespeed

In today's digital landscape, optimal web application performance is crucial for business success. Slow loading times, unresponsive pages, and inefficient code can drive away users and harm your reputation. This makes monitoring web app performance extremely important to prevent them and to provide a smooth user experience. Sitespeed, a powerful web performance monitoring framework, analyzes metrics like page load time, resource usage, and user interactions to identify performance bottlenecks.

AWS CloudWatch Custom Metrics vs Prometheus Custom Metrics

Understanding the state of your systems and their underlying infrastructure at all times is paramount for ensuring the stability and reliability of your services. Up-to-date information about the performance and health of your deployments not only helps your team react to issues in real time, but it also gives them the security to make changes with confidence and to safely forecast system failures or performance hiccups even before they occur.

Connecting Prometheus and Grafana

Using Prometheus and Grafana together is a great combination of tools for monitoring an infrastructure. In this article, we will discuss how Prometheus can be connected with Grafana and what makes Prometheus different from the rest of the tools in the market. MetricFire's product, Hosted Graphite, runs Graphite (a Prometheus alternative) with Grafana dashboards for you so you can have the reliability and ease of use that is hard to get while doing it in-house.