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Whether you run a website of your own, or rely on a specific website for your profession, finding out a URL has gone down can cause considerable losses in revenue and accessibility, or deny access to the critical information you or your users rely on. Uptime monitors let you constantly check your site(s) to see if they are up and running. There are a few common use cases for uptime monitoring.

Google Cloud Operations is a powerful integrated monitoring, logging, and trace managed service for applications and systems running on Google Cloud and beyond. As part of our partnership with Google, we help extend Cloud Operations with BindPlane OP and OpenTelemetry monitoring for a complete monitoring solution. With BindPlane OP, Google Cloud Operations becomes a single pane of glass for monitoring all aspects of your data center, no matter if it’s on prem or running in the cloud.

Prometheus is the de facto open-source solution for collecting and monitoring metrics data. Its straightforward architecture, operational reliability, minimal upfront cost, and versatility in integrating with cloud-native systems make it the preferred choice for many. Getting started is as simple as configuring the Prometheus server and setting simple parameters such as the scrape intervals and targets, cadence, and setting the job name based on the function of the server.

In industrial operations, time is money. The more efficient processes and machinery are, the better it is for business. Providing proactive monitoring and maintenance of industrial machines, however, is not an easy task. This is especially true as these machines become increasingly complex and distributed. It’s not possible to have maintenance crews on site for every asset in a distributed system. The edge is where the physical world meets the digital world.

Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for container orchestration in modern software development, allowing organizations to manage and scale containerized applications easily. As a highly dynamic and distributed system, however, Kubernetes can be challenging to manage and maintain at scale. One of the most critical aspects of maintaining a stable and secure Kubernetes cluster is monitoring the object configurations and tracking the changes over a period of time.

LM Logs offer intelligent log analysis with querying capabilities for all experience levels to analyze log data. But it’s most effective to know when to investigate deeper and conduct further analysis instead of trying to identify hidden trends in log data manually. The best way to determine what’s relevant now is to see if the amount of log data and message types produced in a device or service have drastically changed.

Azure Stack HCI is a virtualized workload solution from Microsoft that allows businesses to run Windows and Linux apps and services in a hybrid on-premise/cloud environment. Built on top of Windows Server, Azure Stack HCI is an example of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). This technology virtualizes conventionally hardware-defined systems like storage and networking to create flexible, efficient infrastructure solutions.

Telemetry pipelines are a modern approach to monitoring and analyzing systems that collect, process, and analyze data from different sources (like metrics, traces, and logs). They are designed to provide a comprehensive view of the system’s behavior and identify issues quickly. Data transformation is a key aspect of telemetry pipelines, as it allows for the modification and shaping of data in order to make it more useful for monitoring and analysis.

The official CircleCI extension for Visual Studio Code is now available for anyone to download on the VS Code Marketplace. This extension was developed by the Developer Experience team of CircleCI and it includes two sets of features: the pipeline manager and the config helper. The config helper provides language support for CircleCI YAML files.