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Peering plays an essential role in the structure of the global internet. In this blog, we take a look at the different peering models available to organisations and explore some of the new ways they can access Internet Exchanges.

Today, we’re launching a major upgrade that will improve the way yourteam manages application errors, with more error states, error assignments,severity labels and a “my incidents” overview. Your team’s communication around incidents will improve significantly.You’ll know exactly how severe an error is, who’s responsible, and howyou handled this error historically.

Telegraf is one of the coolest open source agents for collecting metrics. It’s part of the TICK Stack (Telegraf, Influx, Chronograf and Kapacitor) and with Telegraf you can collect metrics from a wide array of inputs and write them into a wide array of outputs. It is plugin-driven for both collection and output of data so it is easily extendable.

Can you run HAProxy as a Docker container? Yes! Did you even need to ask? Docker is ubiquitous these days and you’ll find that many applications have been Docker-ized; the HAProxy load balancer is no exception. Pardon the cliché, but HAProxy was born for this. As a standalone service that runs on Linux, porting it to Docker certainly seemed natural. Why would you want to run your load balancer inside of a Docker container? Are their performance penalties when doing so?

You've always been able to execute CI/CD workflows via Bitbucket Pipelines using Atlassian's infrastructure. This is the easiest way to use Bitbucket Pipelines because you don't need to host or manage any servers. We host it and manage it for you. But sometimes you need more control of your hardware, software, and the environment your builds are executed into.

Writing LogQL queries to access Loki’s log data just got easier, thanks to the new pattern parser released with Loki 2.3. It makes writing queries for unstructured log formats simple. And the pattern parser can be an order of magnitude faster than the regular expression parser. Let’s take a closer look.