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This article was written by Thamatam Vijay Kumar. Scroll down for author bio and photo. Modern-day websites are filled with dashboards featuring enriched charts, line graphs, radar as well as multigraphs. The world is fascinated with such charts and graphs, which deliver much value to millennial web applications. There are many such chart libraries which provide interactive visualization and deliver data insights for users. The charts plot the lines using data points.
It’s monitoring time. We all collect metrics from our system and applications to monitor their health, availability and performance. Our metrics are essentially time-series data collected from various endpoints. Then, it is stored in time series specialized databases, and then visualized in the metrics graphs we all know and love.
Following on from the recent launch of our Anomaly Advisor feature, and in keeping with our approach to machine learning, here is a detailed Python notebook outlining exactly how the machine learning powering the Anomaly Advisor actually works under the hood. Or if you’d rather watch a video walkthrough of the notebook then check out below. Try it for yourself, get started by signing in to Netdata and connecting a node.
More than 20,000 companies around the world use Ansible as their Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tool. With the rising popularity towards managing infrastructure using IaC and config management tools, Ansible is one of the best open source tools to choose from. That is why we are excited to announce a new Grafana Ansible collection available to all Grafana Cloud users, including those in the generous free tier.
It’s no secret that application containerization has revolutionized the digital world as we know it by providing a transient gateway into elastic infrastructure that can scale and grow as needed. Where traditional virtualization was all about creating a single homogenous entity, containers are self-contained units of software, able to run in just about any environment, making them extremely portable.
We recently hosted a Twitter Space, and a question came in regarding speaking to executives about instrumenting for observability. It’s a great topic we love expanding on. Here’s the answer we provided.
