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Monitoring Your Django App Health on Fly.io

Fly.io is a neat choice for deploying Django fast and globally. What it doesn’t really give you out of the box, though, is a deeper picture of an application’s performance. Deployment is only part of the story. No matter which platform you’re using, operating a production application means you need to understand how it behaves. AppSignal helps you fully grasp what happens on the Fly.io server.

Password Policies in Icinga Web

Icinga Web 2 now ships a PasswordPolicyHook that gives administrators and module developers full control over what constitutes a valid password. Instead of hard-coding a single rule set for every deployment, the hook makes password validation an extension point: any module can register a policy, admins select the active one from the configuration UI, and Icinga Web 2 enforces it everywhere a local password is set or changed.

Cost attribution in Grafana Cloud: Manage spend across observability and testing workflows

Knowing what you're spending on observability is useful. Knowing which team, service, or project is driving that spend is what actually lets you act on that information. Cost attribution is a core part of how Grafana Cloud approaches cost management and optimization.

Sentry + GitHub Copilot Agents

Seer, Sentry's agent debugger, analyzes your issues and finds the root cause. Now you can pass that analysis directly to a GitHub Copilot agent which picks up the context, generates a fix, and opens a pull request. The agent session and PR both live on GitHub, with a link back in Sentry for easy access. This video walks through how the integration works.

Telemetry Talks ep 6 - Observability unlocked with OpenTelemetry and VictoriaMetrics

In this episode, we explore how to build a modern Kubernetes observability stack using open-source technologies such as VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, Grafana. Based on a step by step workshop we gave at Cloud Native Days Romania in May, Jose is walking us through it with practical examples. Playlist Resources for Further Learning.

On Release Days We Wear Teal Episode for release 4.19

In this episode, Leon explores some of the new features, functions, updates, and improvements in release 4.19, which includes a raft of AI-enabled features including the Cribl Apps, integrated MCP server, and the fact that AI features are now turned on by default. For more information, check out these links.

Post-Quantum Cryptography and How to Prepare Your Organization

Do you actually know where encryption lives inside your infrastructure? Not the vendor's answer. The full map: every TLS handshake, every signed software update, every VPN tunnel, every certificate your systems trust. That map is where post-quantum cryptography starts to matter. The technology has moved from a research topic into a compliance deadline, and the algorithms protecting your data today were built for a world without quantum computers.