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Escalating Prometheus alerts to SMS/Phone/Slack/Microsoft-Teams via AlertManager and Zenduty

Prometheus is by far, one of the most popular open-source monitoring tools used by millions of engineering teams globally with a robust community and continued adoption and evolution. We at Zenduty shipped our Prometheus integration integration a while back and we’re happy to report that the adoption of our Prometheus integration has been absolutely through the roof!

The Next Generation of Synthetic Monitoring

Today's enterprise is comprised of a dozens of inter-connected websites, applications, and APIs but most legacy performance testing and monitoring tools can't keep up with their modern IT infrastructure. At Apica, we're constantly innovating to keep up with this growing demand and can create the perfect solution for your IT performance needs. In this webinar, we explain the key benefits of using modern monitoring and performance testing tools to keep your business up and running.

Netlify - Accelerating Sales Cycle with Catchpoint

Founded in 2014, Netlify is a web developer platform that helps you build and deploy feature-rich websites. Netlify uses Jamstack technology for the efficient deployment of websites that are optimized to deliver a great end-user experience. The platform decouples the application backend and frontend, enabling a frictionless, streamlined way to build and deploy apps at scale.

Docker: Secure, but comfortable images.

While developing Docker images for Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2 and Icinga DB we stumbled over OpenShift which doesn’t allow images to run as root by default. One has to enable that explicitly. Also admins of K8s environments being more permissive by default may decide not to allow running as the superuser. So we’ve added a USER directive to our Dockerfiles to make our customers‘ compliance departments happy.

Green IT Project Puts Environmental Cost in Perspective

If you mentioned the word “Green IT” to tech support twenty years ago you probably would have been met with a blank stare. Climate change always felt like a conversation for somebody else—not those in charge of resetting our passwords or installing Office. But while innovations in cloud computing and business applications have helped IT cut infrastructure costs and remain competitive, that progress has come at an environmental cost.

Click, Fulfill, Wrap, Repeat: Getting Retailers Ready for the 2020 Holiday Season

On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer to online. Even Santa’s reindeer don’t know what to expect in the coming months as we brace for a very different retail holiday season. The global pandemic continues to influence shopper behaviors as retailers acknowledge that a playbook doesn’t exist for what’s to come.

Video: Top three features of the new Loki 2.0

Hi folks, Ward Bekker here from the Solutions Engineering team. I’ve just published a video on the new Loki 2.0 release that I’m excited to share with you. The Loki team announced the brand-new Grafana Loki 2.0 release at last week’s ObservabilityCON conference. It’s an exciting, feature-packed release. Loki’s slogan — like Prometheus, but for logs — is more true than ever before.

VoIP during remote work, and meeting its QoS challenges

Though remote work has been in practice for a decent number of years, the pandemic has made businesses take up the challenge of shifting to a completely remote workforce. All this wouldn't have been possible without high-speed internet access for all employees. Another tool that has made the transition smooth and ensured uninterrupted communication is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

Tech Leaders' Panel - Prioritizing Customer Experience in Today's Digital World (Livestream)

In today’s digital world, leading companies are having to redefine what it means to deliver a flawless experience for their customers. In this exclusive panel discussion, learn how software teams at Vend, Xero, Tend Health and Lancom put the customer experience at the centre of their development workflow, closing the feedback loop between code and customer.

Grafana vs Chronograf: Pricing

Grafana vs InfluxDB – Both offer their cloud services for storing, visualizing and alerting on any kind of time-series data. Both cloud offerings differ from each other in various ways and follow distinct pricing strategies. In this article, we cover the details of Grafana as a service and InfluxDB Cloud, their features and benefits along with their pricing models. MetricFire is a Hosted Grafana service, where you can use Grafana dashboards directly in the MetricFire platform.