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VMworld 2021: "We're Proud To Announce..."

I've never seen so much news during VMworld! It began to seem comical that every speaker at the opening "General Session" and subsequent keynotes used the line "We are proud to announce." By the way, one of the most excellent General Sessions I've ever seen in terms of tempo, delivery, and rhetoric! From October 15, you will be able to find all content on-demand here.

How We Use Sloth to do SLO Monitoring and Alerting with Prometheus

One of the most challenging tasks for Site Reliability Engineers is to align the reliability of the systems with the business goals. There is a constant battle between delivering more features—which increases the product’s value—and keeping the system reliable and maintainable. A significant ally to achieve both objectives is the Service Level Objective Framework.

Install Netdata to get started monitoring Linux in minutes

Install Netdata to monitor your Linux servers using our one-line installer. Install on physical, virtual, container, and IoT nodes. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

How to monitor Docker containers using Netdata health and performance

Learn how to connect and claim a Docker node to start monitoring with Netdata in minutes. See information like system CPU, available memory, disk usage, total network bandwidth, and much more. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

Learn how to build interactive dashboards with Netdata Cloud for troubleshooting systems

This video will show you how to build new dashboards with key metrics from any number of distributed systems in one place for a bird's eye view of your infrastructure. Create more meaningful visualizations for troubleshooting or keep a watchful eye on your infrastructure's most meaningful metrics without moving from node to node. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

How to use Netdata Cloud for infrastructure observability

In this video, we cover how Netdata Cloud provides scalable infrastructure monitoring for any number of distributed nodes running the Netdata Agent. Monitor any system in your infrastructure including physical or virtual machines (VM), containers, cloud deployments, or edge / IoT devices. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

7 JSON Logging Tips That You Can Implement

When teams begin to analyze their logs, they almost immediately run into a problem and they’ll need some JSON logging tips to overcome them. Logs are naturally unstructured. This means that if you want to visualize or analyze your logs, you are forced to deal with many potential variations. You can eliminate this problem by logging out invalid JSON and setting the foundation for log-driven observability across your applications.

Receive charts of Pandora FMS in Telegram

In this video we will learn how to add graphics to the alerts that we receive in Telegram for Pandora alerting. In the first tutorial we saw how to configure to receive these alerts with text and now we will be able to add that they come accompanied by the graph of the module that triggers it. We also leave you the following links to our wiki where you can learn more about the steps that make up the alerts.

Using Netdata's alerts smartboard for monitoring systems' health and performance

The alerts smartboard gives you high-level information for every node you are monitoring with Netdata Cloud. In this video, you will learn how to navigate through the alerts smartboard as well as what each alert means. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

What's new in Grafana Cloud for October 2021: Machine Learning, Grafana 8.2, new integrations, and more

Here at Grafana Labs, we’re constantly shipping new features to help our users get the most out of Grafana Cloud. To help our new and existing customers learn about the latest and greatest, here’s a roundup of all the new features and improvements you should know about to make the most of Grafana Cloud.