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Service Level Objectives as Code: Terraforming Honeycomb SLOs

In March, we announced official support for a Honeycomb Terraform Provider. Today, we’re announcing additional support for managing Honeycomb Service Level Objectives (SLOs) with Terraform. This furthers Honeycomb’s support for configuration as code and it gives you programmatic control for an immensely popular Honeycomb feature.

Building a search experience with Elastic

We’re excited to share an end-to-end demo that showcases how Elastic empowers developers to build rich search solutions. The demo provides mechanisms to run in your own environment, to ingest data into Elastic Enterprise Search using the Enterprise Search Python Libraries, and to create a modern UI in React, using the free and open source tool Search UI.

The Power of ChaosSearch Alerts

How can you derive value from data? One answer is to generate alerts based on the data. Alerts help your team stay on top of a variety of potential challenges – like application performance issues, security risks, disruptions to the CI/CD delivery chain and beyond. ChaosSearch’s flexible alerting system makes it easy to generate alerts relevant to your organization’s needs.

Observability strategies that work - and some that don't

Creating an observability strategy is a lot like playing with Legos: It takes small building blocks to create a bigger picture, but the slightest mistake could throw off an entire build — and often you realize it very late in the process and have to rip and repair the Hogwarts castle infrastructure you spent many days creating.

Adding Redis & MySQL to AppSignal for Node.js with OpenTelemetry

We've simultaneously launched 4 new integrations for Node.js: Redis, ioredis, MySQL, and MySQL2. This means that you can now see all the details of a query in the Event Timeline and Slow Query screens in AppSignal. Because we are a small and bootstrapped team, we've chosen to embrace OpenTelemetry as a means of expanding AppSignal's offering in the Node.js ecosystem.

See How Restorepoint Helps You Remediate After a Network Breach

This is our first blog in a three-part series, where we demonstrate the many features and benefits of using Restorepoint and the ScienceLogic SL1 Platform together. Today’s demo takes you through a network breach scenario—showing how to identify and remediate following an unplanned network device change.

Coming soon! A sneak peek at Raygun Alerting's Slack integration

The Slack integration is our #1 feature request for our Alerting feature, and the Raygun team has been busy at work making this feature available to all our customers. We expect this feature to be available around early - mid July 2022. Many of you, our curious customers, have asked for a preview of what’s to come. So we thought we’d share some specs and screenshots with you as we progress through the work.

How to Install Apache ActiveMQ on Debian 11

Apache ActiveMQ is a free and open-source message broker developed by Apache Software Foundation. It is one of the well-known message brokers that supports multiple protocols such as AMQP, MQTT, Stomp, and OpenWire. It is written in Java and fully compliant with JMS 1.1 standards. Apache ActiveMQ is one of the most popular message brokers that support different types of programming languages that can be deployed on multiple platforms.