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Can your AIOps platform do Log Noise Reduction in addition to Alert Noise Reduction? If not, it is time to re-evaluate your AIOps

One of the core value propositions of AIOps platforms is to increase IT efficiency & productivity by applying AI & ML techniques to perform Alert Noise Reduction. This in turn translates to direct cost reduction due to savings in IT man-hours. In this approach, the AIOps platform kind of becomes like a gatekeeper for all the IT alerts/events, and it can help effectively, reduce and correlate such events, so as to send meaningful incidents to NOC or Service Desk.

Transforming application logs into metrics with Istio and Grafana Cloud

Do you actually know what your customers are looking for? A way to uncover new business opportunities is to analyze your system, collect what you really need, and visualize it through a comprehensive graph! Log traces are a great place to start because they usually contain useful information on your customers' interests. You just need to transform them.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample SQL AdventureWorks Dashboard

Join Adam Kinniburgh and Shawn Williams in this latest Dashboard Fridays episode on SQL AdventureWorks. Microsoft provides a common dataset called AdventureWorks when learning how to use SQL Server. Using SquaredUp, the AdventureWorks dataset can easily be visualized in any organization. In this short video, we'll demonstrate how this dashboard was built using SquaredUp dashboards, the challenges it solves, and how you can easily replicate it in your own environment.

Traceroute software-the troubleshooting tool your network needs

The need for in-depth network monitoring is growing exponentially as organizations expand in size and more companies are established. Increased monitoring needs demand a feature-rich tool to simplify networks and get a clear view of their underlying infrastructure. Diagnosing network faults and ensuring a well-balanced operation of all network devices is the primary task of a network admin any day.

Datadog acquires CoScreen

At Datadog, we’re dedicated to building a platform that helps teams detect, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in their applications and infrastructure. We know that our customers need to be able to debug issues, explore ideas, and manage incidents efficiently, and that means having access to tools that can help them seamlessly share information and leverage the expertise of their distributed teams.

JavaScript Mutators & The Programmable Observability Pipeline

JavaScript mutators shine among the improvements in Sensu Go 6.5 – they are both more effective and more efficient at transforming Sensu event data than pipe mutators. This post explores the advantages of JavaScript mutators and includes an example, but first, a brief review. In the Sensu observability pipeline, checks generate events, which Sensu then filters, transforms, and processes. A mutator is a component that transforms the event data.

Making a More Accessible navigation

I’m Tim, a Product Design Manager at LogDNA. My team is responsible for creating a beautiful and easy-to-navigate user interface so that you can easily access, and gain value from, your logs. We’ve been working on making our product’s navigation more accessible and are rolling out a mixture of subtle and more noticeable changes.

Getting Started with Arduino and InfluxDB

Time series data differs from “normal” data in an interesting way. The essential characteristic is that the data’s primary point of reference is a timestamp showing at which point in time a sample of data was measured. Time series databases like InfluxDB are helpful for situations that involve this kind of data.