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Perspectives: Our solution to dashboard sprawl

What if I told you that you're using dashboards wrong? Imagine this: You're on a call with your team, staring at a big, static dashboard full of graphs and numbers. Someone pipes up, "Okay, so what now?" Everyone exchanges glances, unsure of how to move forward. You've got the data, but somehow, you're still stuck. If you’re nodding along, we feel you. The truth is, the way we’ve been using dashboards is outdated. They’re static. They’re rigid.

Building a better search experience

As someone deeply invested in the evolution of SquaredUp, I’d like to share more about our search capability and how we designed the functionality. SquaredUp can connect to 100+ data sources, thousands of objects, tons of metrics, and and we offer many purpose-built out-of-the-box dashboards and monitors. We've deliberately designed our search experience to be able to handle the complexity of various data environments and make finding relevant information seamless and efficient.

Feature Friday #34: Self organizing groups with select_class

Did you know CFEngine can self-organize hosts into different groups? Say you have a few hosts that you want to reboot once a month. You don’t care when, but you want the hosts to self-organize and pick a date. The select_class attribute for classes type promises might be what you’re looking for. Let’s take a look.

Kubernetes Migration: Tips and Best Practises

Are you considering migrating to Kubernetes but worried about the potential complexities? Well, you are not alone. Transitioning to Kubernetes brings unparalleled scalability and resilience for containerized applications, but it also introduces technical challenges that can overwhelm unprepared teams. Let's go through proven strategies to make the Kubernetes migration journey smoother, from planning and dependency mapping to using automation tools that reduce errors.

GitLens - Streamline Collaboration

Streamline Collaboration | Access Work Anywhere & Suggest Changes Easily and securely share code changes with your teammates or other developers by creating a Cloud Patch from your WIP, commit or stash and sharing the generated link. Liberate your code reviews and make and receive code suggestions from your team on anything in your project, not just on the lines of code changed in the PR.

GitLens - Interactive Code History

Blame, Hovers, and Commit Graph | Actionable Visuals Go beyond just visualizations with actionable commands. Create branches, rebase, revert, and more by simply right clicking within your repo’s history with the GitLens Commit Graph. The only graph with rich search capabilities, search by a specific commit, message, author, a changed file or files, or even a specific code change.

Booking.com's Observability Overhaul: Unified Metrics, Logs, and User Insights | Grafana & OTel

Murugesan and Ahmadali from Booking.com's Observability Team as they dive into the journey of modernizing observability. Discover how they transformed fragmented systems into a centralized, scalable platform using OpenTelemetry and Grafana solutions. They share insights on their three-year strategy, the importance of unified metrics and logs, and overcoming challenges, from technology transitions to fostering teamwork.

October product updates

It’s time for another update from the StatusGator team! While our team was hard at work on improvements and bug fixes, many communities around the United States spent October cleaning up from the impact of hurricanes. If you’d like to help, we’d ask you to join us in supporting our friends and customers in Buncombe County, North Carolina by donating to the Buncombe County Schools Foundation. Thank you for support and now let’s get into what’s new.