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As a longtime systems engineer, Blerim Sheqa knows all about using tools like Grafana to debug issues in infrastructures. Currently the CPO of Icinga, an open source monitoring software, he gave a talk at GrafanaCon LA about how not to fail at visualization.

Coming back from Monitorama, I had a chance to sit back and start playing with some tools to see how they worked. Prometheus is a pretty ubiquitous tool in the monitoring space, it's pretty easy to spin up, and is open-source. Having a very active community of engaged developers means finding help articles or guides is easy. We are also going to use Grafana to build nicer looking graphs based on API queries from Prometheus.

An ever increasing number of developers and architects are using AWS Lambda to deploy serverless functions to control costs and reduce the burden of server management. Due to the unpredictable nature of end-user demand in today’s digital-first world, Lambda functions can help resolve unplanned scaling issues.

As a Sales Engineer, I hear interesting product requests on a daily basis, and integrating LogicMonitor reports with LogicMonitor dashboards comes up frequently. LogicMonitor's reporting engine has many useful functions from capacity planning to SLA calculation, and dashboards help users visually digest the raw data of reports.

A few members of the Scout team had the chance to head to Monitorama in Portland, Oregon this week. For those who do not know what Monitorama is, it is a 3-day, open-source monitoring conference with a single track. There is plenty of time during the breaks to chat with attendees, ask the speakers questions or just catch up on some email.

Everyone wants to be more efficient — to spend less time on the tedious things, and more time on the things that move the needle. As much as possible, if you can automate those tedious things, you should. With Honeycomb, we enable you to understand how your application behaves in production through the ability to iteratively ask questions of the system instrumentation data, no matter how granular. Honeycomb triggers enable you to be notified when specific things happen in your system.