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Debugging Modern Applications: Advanced Techniques

Today’s applications are designed to be always available and serve users 24/7. Performing live debugging on such applications is akin to doctors operating on a patient. Since the advent of the “as a service” model, software is like a living, breathing entity, akin to an anatomical system. Operating on such entities requires more dexterity on the developer’s part, to ensure that the software application lives on while being debugged and improved continuously.

Grafana Agent v0.37: Feature parity between Static and Flow mode, easy migration configs, and more

Grafana Agent v0.37 is here! This new release brings a lot of exciting new features and marks the pinnacle of a year-long effort to achieve feature parity between Grafana Agent Flow mode and Grafana Agent Static mode. We also extended our config converter to ease the migration from Static to Flow mode and we added the possibility to split your Flow configuration into multiple files. Please make note of some breaking changes in this release.

How to embed Grafana dashboards into web applications

Grafana dashboards are powerful and flexible tools for observing applications and infrastructure, so it’s no surprise we get a lot of questions from the community about how to embed them into their web applications. Over the past few releases, we’ve developed a lot of options for how to do this in Grafana, but there can be confusion about how they work, and when to use each approach.

The Path to a Dark NOC: Actionable Initiatives to Achieve Full Autonomy

A Dark Network Operations Center (NOC) is one that runs with no IT staff … at least that’s how it’s been defined up until now. But there’s more to interpret. Large, complex networks rely on the NOC — the core of network infrastructure — to keep them healthy and resilient. The NOC’s function allows employees, customers, partners, and other network users to rest a bit easier, and its integrity and accuracy gives them peace of mind.

Everything you need to know about data sovereignty

In today’s digital age, the most effective organizations are using data to fuel innovation and accelerate business strategies. Data continues to be at the heart of business growth. Organizations increasingly rely on technology to manage and store their data. Questions about ownership, control, and security have emerged — leading to the rise of a concept known as data sovereignty. In this post we’ll explore.

HAProxy's Growth Continues with Rave Reviews and Powerful Capabilities

The G2 Fall 2023 Reports are in! And while leaves are on the verge of tumbling downward, HAProxy's acclaim across multiple categories, market levels, and global segments has only risen. For companies looking for—or migrating from—a load-balancing solution, HAProxy delivers simple adoption, scalable performance, strong security, and observable operation. Altogether, across six product categories HAProxy featured in 58 reports and won 30 badges, including “Momentum Leader”.

Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: #37 How to handle special characters inside Logic Apps actions?

Today, I will speak about another useful Best practice, Tips, and Tricks that you must consider while designing your business processes (Logic Apps): How to handle special chars inside Logic Apps actions.

Ingesting and analyzing Prometheus metrics with Elastic Observability

In the world of monitoring and observability, Prometheus has grown into the de-facto standard for monitoring in cloud-native environments because of its robust data collection mechanism, flexible querying capabilities, and integration with other tools for rich dashboarding and visualization.

Ingest OpenTelemetry logs with the Datadog Agent

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open-source, vendor-neutral observability solution that provides a suite of components—including APIs, SDKs, and a data collector—that enable teams to collect and communicate telemetry data from cloud-native applications and services. OTel also defines the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), a standard for the encoding and transfer of telemetry data.