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In an ideal world, organizations can establish a single, citadel-like data center that accumulates data and hosts their applications and all associated services, all while enjoying a customer base that is also geographically close. As this data grows in mass and gravity, it’s okay because all the new services, applications, and customers will continue to be just as close to the data. This is the “have your cake and eat it too” scenario for a scaling business’s IT.

In data management, numerous roles rely on and regularly use telemetry data. The security engineer is one of these roles. Security engineers are the vigilant sentries, working diligently to identify and address vulnerabilities in the software applications and systems we use and enjoy today. Whether it’s by building an entirely new system or applying current best practices to enhance an existing one, security engineers ensure that your systems and data are always protected.

The supercloud concept promises fewer accidental architectures and more cohesive cloud deployments with better manageability. Delivering on this vision requires a mix of vendor-agnostic tooling for performance monitoring and securing data.

Have you ever fallen asleep to the sounds of your on-call team in a Zoom call? If you’ve had the misfortune to sympathize with this experience, you likely understand the problem of Alert Fatigue firsthand. During an active incident, it can be exhausting to tease the upstream root cause from downstream noise while you’re context switching between your terminal and your alerts. This is where Alertmanager comes in, providing a way to mitigate each of the problems related to Alert Fatigue.

Users prefer an application that runs smoothly and without bugs to one that may have an appealing UI and shiny new features but comes with issues. Application monitoring is critical to the health of your application. With application monitoring, you can stay on top of any errors and ensure your application performs as it should. In this article, we'll cover: Let’s dive straight in!

It only feels like yesterday that I was writing about the new features in Avantra 23.0, but today I’m pleased to announce that Avantra 23.1, our first feature update of Avantra 23, is ready for download. We’ve been working on a number of different areas that I’ll try to summarize here, but I apologize for the length of this post! For those who want a complete list of changes, check out our public release notes.

Structured logging is the method of having a consistent log format for your application logs so that they can be easily searched and analyzed. Having structured logs allows for more efficient searching, filtering, and aggregation of log data. It enables users to extract meaningful information from log data easily. Logging is an essential aspect of system administration and monitoring. Logging allows you to record information data about the application's activity.

Today is an important milestone for InfluxData. I am thrilled to share that we closed our $51 million Series E round, and a $30 million debt facility, raising $81 million in capital. The Series E round was led by our new investors Princeville Capital and Citi Ventures, with participation from our existing investors Battery Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Sapphire Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Sorenson Capital, and Harmony Partners.

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