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How We Differentiate Grafana Enterprise from Open Source Grafana

We are building Grafana Labs to be a sustainable open source company. In addition to maintaining the open source project and community around Grafana, we offer paid products that help make that possible. Grafana Enterprise was introduced over a year ago and adds features needed by enterprise-level organizations. In this blog post we’ll discuss some of those features and how we decide what goes into Grafana Enterprise.

Sentry for Data: Easier, Faster Apache Beam Debugging

In our Sentry for Data series, we explain precisely why Sentry is the perfect tool for your data team. The present post focuses on how we used Sentry to make debugging Apache Beam easier (and faster). Since its creation, Sentry has embraced a single vision: help all developer teams build the best software, faster. We want to give developers the information they need to resolve issues quickly, without having to dig through noisy log lines.

Deleting ServiceNow Records via List Filter

When doing testing and development I frequently want to clean up all of the records between releases to give myself a fresh start. Using the list view is helpful, but can be slow if you have more than 100 or so records to delete. The below script is run via the Scripts – Background view to take the results of your list view and delete the records, logging if they are successfully deleted or not with each one.

Custom HTTP Request Headers

One of the latest under-the-hood upgrades to our User Journey and Page Performance monitoring system has been to introduce the ability to set custom HTTP request headers. This was actually a requirement from one of our clients who was beginning to have trouble maintaining the whitelist of IP addresses that our requests might come from in their Web Application Firewall (WAF).

Let's talk about the BGP protocol and its monitoring

The BGP protocol has become a fundamental part of the operation and performance of the Internet. Therefore, it is obvious that we should undertake the BGP monitoring process when monitoring applications or those services that are offered being Internet the basis of its communication.

Virtual Instruments Reinvents Hybrid Infrastructure Management with Latest Generation of AIOps-Enabled VirtualWisdom Platform

Virtana, the leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads, today introduced the latest version of VirtualWisdom, the industry’s most comprehensive hybrid IT infrastructure management and AIOps platform.

A Guide to Protecting Privacy in the 21st Century

Let’s be honest: we are facing big problems surrounding privacy online today. It has come to light over the past couple of years how the adtech industry harvest and abuse user data to construct eerily detailed profiles on individuals, in order to sell these in real time bidding auctions to online advertisers, who out-bid each other for the opportunity to serve users individualized marketing in the micromoments, they visit a website.

DevOps tools for monitoring

DevOps has been a hot topic for many years, but it's still common for organizations to feel overwhelmed by the complexity of automating their entire infrastructure and to get hung up on which tools to use. An integrated set of DevOps tools for monitoring has the power to improve visibility and productivity, achieve higher-performing systems, and establish cross-functional collaboration.

Monitor a Laravel app with Scout

Last month we talked about the PHP monitoring landscape in 2019 and announced that Scout APM would soon be available for monitoring your Laravel applications too (as well as your Ruby, Python and Elixir apps of course!). Now that our PHP monitoring agent is ready for beta testing, we thought it would be a good idea to show you folks how easy it is to get started with it and to highlight the main features to the Laravel community.