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Announcing Support for GKE Autopilot

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is the preferred way to run Kubernetes on Google Cloud as it removes the operational overhead of managing the control plane. Earlier today, Google Cloud announced the general availability of GKE Autopilot, which manages your cluster’s entire infrastructure—both the control plane and worker nodes—so that you can spend more time building your applications.

Why Monitoring Should be a Part of Your DevOps Strategy

DevOps came about as a result of ever-growing lags between development and operation. It’s a framework that deals with communication bottlenecks, allowing for smooth change management. DevOps monitoring is a crucial element and a necessity for this framework to succeed. Monitoring plays a vital role in realizing the underlying goals of DevOps. DevOps is all about eliminating technical inefficiencies and improving the speed of the whole cycle from development to deployment.

You should know about... transformations in Grafana

Transformations were introduced in Grafana v7.0, and I’d like to remind you that you can use them to do some really nifty things with your data. All performed right in the browser! Transformations process the result set of a query before it’s passed on for visualization. They allow you to join separate time series together, do maths across queries, and more. My number one use case is usually doing maths across multiple data sources.

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor - Product Walk-Through

Web application availability is crucial for your organization. Whether your applications are accessed inside or outside the firewall, your business depends on them being up, available, and performing optimally. Watch this short video and learn how WPM allows you to constantly monitor availability and response time from one location or locations around the globe. Find problems before your users do. WPM is the easiest to use, most affordable application in this space.