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Inside Grafana Labs: Our Workspaces Revealed

A post-geographical culture means more than putting a face to the name. Here, the Grafana Labs team is also putting a photo to the workspace. Check out the setups that have been where some of the latest Grafana releases and products have been developed. What you’ll learn is that not only is the Grafana Labs team adept at creating dashboards, supporting hosted services, and hosting conferences.

24/7 Outside-in Web Application and User Experience Monitoring

SolarWinds® Pingdom® is used by Traxo to provide an outside-in, third party assessment of the availability and performance of the web services they provide to the travel industry. They also use Pingdom to monitor the customer's digital experience so they can make sure they continue to deliver a high level of performance.

The Sentry Workflow - Resolve

Errors suck. And you don’t want to spend too much of your time fixing them, dealing with them, investigating them, etc. In our Workflow blog post series, we look at how to optimize your, well, workflow, from crash to resolution. At this point in our workflow (check out the first and second posts in this series), we’ve minimized the impact of errors on the development process by creating infrastructure and culture equipped to handle unexpected issues.

Our Must-Read Blog Posts from the First Half of 2019

2019 is turning out to be the biggest year so far for OpsRamp. In the first half of 2019, we have delivered significant innovation on the product front, interacted with partners and prospects at trade shows, gained recognition from leading industry influencers, hired amazing individuals, and accelerated our go-to-market momentum. Here are some quick highlights for your review: It has also been a busy time on our blog, with 40 different posts on all things related to digital operations management.

Flamegraph: How to Visualize Stack Traces and Performance

So you want a faster application? If you’ve not heard of a flamegraph, it can be a great way to improve and gain insight into your application performance. Today, we’ll explain what a flamegraph is. We’ll cover the stack trace and its origin, the call stack. Finally, we’ll define the flame graph and show how to leverage it for improving the performance of your application. Sound good? Let’s get to it. Before we get to what a flamegraph is, we need to discuss stack traces.

7 Free Tools to Manage Your Sites More Efficiently

Managing your online businesses or websites should be compared to managing brick-and-mortar outlet shop. The difference is that you are managing it on digital devices. But with rapid growth in technology and digital trends, there are so many apps and tools available today to help you manage. With so many choices one could be confused about which apps and tools work best. These seven free online tools will help you manage your sites or online businesses.

How to inspire exceptional contributions to your open-source project

Netdata must be doing something right when it comes to inspiring contributions. Our open-source, distributed monitoring agent has on GitHub and has seen contributions from hundreds of people: . We’ve even hired a handful of our contributors to work full-time on making the Netdata ecosystem even more powerful. The community is passionate about what we’re building, and they’re actively interested in making it work better for their particular needs.

Apache Tomcat Monitoring with ELK and Logz.io

Apache Tomcat is the most popular application server for serving Java applications. Widely-used, mature and well documented, Tomcat can probably be defined as the de-facto industry standard. Some sources put Tomcat’s market share at over 60%! Tomcat is particularly popular for serving smaller applications since it doesn’t require the full Java EE platform. It consumes a relatively small amount of resources and provides users with simpler admin features.