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Write Prometheus queries faster with our new PromQL Explorer

We are announcing the new PromQL Explorer for Sysdig Monitor that will help you easily understand your monitor data. The new PromQL Explorer allows you to write PromQL queries faster by automatically identifying the common labels among different metrics. It also allows you to interactively modify the PromQL results by using the visual label filtering

New Puppet Enterprise release delivers security, performance updates

The winter release of Puppet Enterprise is now available. Puppet continues to build out its flagship product to help organizations scale DevOps initiatives, meet compliance requirements, and deliver on cloud and hybrid initiatives. With this release, we’ve focused on delivering key enhancements to help boost productivity, giving organizations the ability to automate faster and more securely at scale.

Puppet Enterprise 2021 release includes support for SAML 2.0

Security is essential. It’s top of mind for organizations of all sizes and it’s certainly a top priority for Puppet. The latest release of Puppet Enterprise 2021.0 now offers support for SAML 2.0 providing a more secure and efficient authentication path for our customers to access their Puppet environments, applications and tooling.

Challenges of growth engineering in a DevOps company

Growth engineering is a practice in which product, engineering, and design support a company’s growth efforts from within the product itself. Growth engineering has gained traction in consumer-facing companies. This practice has gained plenty of traction in the SaaS world over the last decade, to help support growth of self-serve users who often purchase services without the involvement of traditional sales teams.

Introducing Incident Timer

We’re excited to announce Incident Timer - a “days without an incident” timer for software teams to keep track of major engineering incidents. As the people behind Spike.sh, we keep discussing how to build a culture of reliability with our customers. We loved the idea of safety/accident timers in factories which kept track of major accidents. It's a simple and elegant way to keep safety on everybody’s minds.

Analyzing Elastic Workplace Search usage in a Kibana dashboard - part 2

For the 7.10 release of Elastic Workplace Search, we highlighted some of the new analytics logging capabilities and took you through a short walkthrough of some sample analysis scenarios. With the 7.11 release we introduced analytics fields, which open up new possibilities for exploring query and click data with helpful dashboards and visualizations.

IT Ops tax: Death by a thousand cuts

There are many hidden costs in running sub-optimal IT operations, that most organizations don’t consider. Enterprises often look at service downtime as their only KPI, but that is really only the tip of the iceberg. Without a properly operating incident management lifecycle, enterprises tend to support poorly performing services instead of fixing them.