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How PostgreSQL and Grafana Can Improve Monitoring Together

TimescaleDB is an open source database packaged as a Postgres extension that supports time series, but “it looks as if it were just Postgres,” said Timescale’s Head of Product, Diana Hsieh. “So you can actually use the entire ecosystem. You can use all of the functions that are enabled in Postgres – like JSON indexes, relational tables, post JSON – and they all work with Timescale.”

Deploy a Multi-node Elasticsearch Cluster With Kibana in Minikube Using the Elastic Helm Chart

In 2 minutes / 7 steps easily deploy a multi-node Elasticsearch cluster w/ Kibana in Kubernetes using Elastic Helm Charts. Dan Roscigno from Elastic will show you how to get started - from adding our Helm repo, to grabbing a values.yml for Minikube, to deploying the charts, and finally visualizing sample data in Kibana and enabling monitoring of the entire deployment.

Keyboard Shortcuts in Slack and Mattermost

In an increasingly connected world that moves faster every day, everyone’s always trying to get more done in less time at work. Are you enjoying the most productive Mattermost experience? To increase your productivity on Mattermost, you may want to consider giving keyboard shortcuts and slash commands a spin.

Monitoring Automation with Icinga - Certificate Monitoring

In our ongoing efforts to make it easier to automate monitoring environments we recently introduced a new module for Icinga Web 2. This module is first and foremost a platform which lets you have an overview over all the certificates you are using in your environment to prove the identity of your devices. You can take a quick glance or a very detailed look at them.

Effortless and Elegant Project Management With ClickUp

If you are frustrated by your clients needs slipping through the cracks when you shift from one software to another while completing different tasks; you are just one among many. You might have tried dozens of project management techniques and tools to meet your employees’ and clients’ needs, but some were either slow, expensive, or could not run tasks of your whole business.

A Complete Introduction to Apache Kafka

Kafka is an open source real-time streaming messaging system and protocol built around the publish-subscribe system. In this system, producers publish data to feeds for which consumers are subscribed to. With Kafka, clients within a system can exchange information with higher performance and lower risk of serious failure. Instead of establishing direct connections between subsystems, clients communicate via a server which brokers the information between producers and consumers.