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The latest News and Information on Observabilty for complex systems and related technologies.

Click, Fulfill, Wrap, Repeat: Getting Retailers Ready for the 2020 Holiday Season

On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer to online. Even Santa’s reindeer don’t know what to expect in the coming months as we brace for a very different retail holiday season. The global pandemic continues to influence shopper behaviors as retailers acknowledge that a playbook doesn’t exist for what’s to come.

KMC - Observing and Optimizing Your Rancher Env (with Datadog)

Kubernetes has exploded in popularity due to its versatility, ease of use, and powerful autoscaling abilities. With Rancher, teams can seamlessly manage their Kubernetes and cloud-native workloads. Getting observability into such a dynamic technology, however, remains challenging.

Turning Telemetry into Actionable Insight with Moogsoft Observability Cloud

Under the hood, Moogsoft Observability Cloud extends AI-based intelligence so that it starts with raw observability data analysis. It discovers your infrastructure services to collect and analyze the time-series metrics locally, along with turning time-series metrics and event data from your existing tools into actionable insights.

ObservabilityCON Day 4 recap: a panel discussion on observability (and its future), the benefits of Chaos Engineering, and an observability demo showcase

Over the past four days, Grafana Labs' ObservabilityCON 2020 brought together the Grafana community for talks dedicated to observability. We hope you enjoyed all of the sessions, which are available on demand now. (Link to them from the schedule on the event page). The conference wrapped up with predictions and advice from observability experts, lessons in failure, and Grafana Labs team members showcasing ways Grafana and other tools fit into an observability workflow.

The Future of Ops Careers

Have you seen Lambda: A Serverless Musical? If not, you really have to. I love Hamilton, I love serverless, and I’m not trying to be a crank or a killjoy or police people’s language. BUT, unfortunately, the chorus chose to double-down on one of the stupidest and most dangerous tendencies the serverless movement has had from day one: misunderstanding and trash-talking operations.

Modernization Starts With Infrastructure

Today, every company is a software company and digital business is a core strategy for many organizations. To gain the much-needed agility and efficient scalability, companies in all verticals are modernizing their infrastructure by moving to hybrid, multicloud and cloud-native environments. Realizing that modern applications run on modern infrastructure, IT leaders are prioritizing infrastructure modernization initiatives.

New Product Updates What Does it Mean to Observe and Debug in 'Hi Res'

A number of Honeycomb features have been released throughout spring 2019 that, collectively, we like to say deliver “hi-res” across the Engineering and DevOps lifecycle. What do we mean? First, hi-res with Honeycomb means you get clearer visibility about how your production is behaving in real time, as you release new code. Secondly, it means once you have those insights (thanks to granular event data stored in Honeycomb), you can debug and resolve more efficiently. So, how do we do it?