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Using Playwright and Checkly to create an ecommerce synthetic monitoring check (no audio)

This short video shows the creation of a synthetic monitoring check using Playwright and Checkly. Here's an outline of the steps in the video: Note: If you’d like to follow along with the steps here, make sure that you have Playwright installed first.

The Start of Sleuth: Filling a Gap in Software Delivery Performance

Sleuth's founders -- Dylan Etkin, Michael Knighten, and Don Brown -- talk about where the idea for Sleuth came from, how it's filling a need in measuring and improving on software delivery performance, and how it helps teams unlock their ability to experiment. Give Sleuth a try and see why it's a deploy-based Accelerate / DORA metrics tracker both managers and developers love.

Delivering a Successful Microsoft Teams User Experience - Microsoft MVP, Nick Cavalancia

Think delivering Microsoft Teams service to your users is simple? Microsoft MVP Nick Cavalancia lists all of the factors at play in delivering a successful Teams user experience. Spoiler alert: most of them have nothing to do with Microsoft.

What Is Splunk & What Does It Do? An Introduction To Splunk

Hi! We’re Splunk, and we’re glad you’re visiting us today. Honestly, we hear from people far and wide about “What does Splunk do?”, “Does the name Splunk mean something?” And of course, “How can I learn Splunk?” I wrote this article to help answer all these questions for you and point you towards whatever question you want answered.

Dashboard Design: Visualization Choices and Configurations

There are many visualization types and configurations available to choose from. In general, keep your visualizations as simple and straightforward as possible to avoid distraction and highlight only the most important information. If there is too much unnecessary information on the page it can be overwhelming and focus can be misdirected to unimportant details.

Configuring notifications for your CI builds with Slack and Twilio

CircleCI notification orbs were built to deliver messages to the appropriate channels when a build is successful or when it fails. This helps everyone involved in a project stay up-to-date with the status of the latest build. In this tutorial, you will explore and implement notifications sent to a Slack channel and also sent via SMS. To accomplish this task, you will make use of the Slack and Twilio orbs from the CircleCI orb registry.

SD-WAN Troubleshooting: How to Troubleshoot SD-WAN Networks

SD-WAN networks are more popular than ever. With the increasing use of cloud-based applications, many businesses rely on SD-WAN services to deliver optimal Internet, cloud, and UC performance. But like all networks, SD-WAN can experience network issues that affect user experience and network performance. So keep reading to learn how to troubleshoot SD-WAN networks using Network Monitoring.

Kubernetes Monitoring: Metrics, Tools & Best Practices

Monitoring any type of resource can be challenging. But Kubernetes monitoring is a special kind of challenge. Not only are there a variety of different Kubernetes layers and resource types to monitor, but collecting monitoring data from Kubernetes can be difficult if you use a managed Kubernetes service that limits your access to the underlying infrastructure. For all of these reasons, Kubernetes monitoring requires a different approach.

Season 2 finale: How to grow from failure in 2023 + Rob's worst failure

In the finale episode of season 2, our podcast producer Julia McClellan turns the tables on Rob to see what he's really learned from interviewing 18 top tech leaders in 2022. Rob reflects on how to grow, communicate, and change our ways from experiencing failure. Tune in today to hear Rob share his most catastrophic failure and catch a special preview to season 3.