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Enriching your Search Results with Lookups

It’s quite common for data from a Search to contain references to information that is, well, unintuitive. Error or Message Codes, Port Numbers, Reference IDs, and Customer Numbers are all useful pieces of information, but far from being human-readable. That information is often available in a collateral location, often a spreadsheet or database, where it can be looked up with a “key” field.

k6 extensions updates with Ivan Szkiba (k6 Office Hours #99)

In this episode of k6 Office Hours, Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Paul Balogh are joined by Ivan Szkiba, the latest Grafanista of the k6 team, to discuss the latest developments on the k6 extensions. Links shared: List of templates and extensions discussed: ⏰ TIMESTAMPS.

How to learn Grafana with Grafana Play (Grafana Office Hours #10)

If you were wondering how to learn Grafana, Grafana Play is probably the easiest way. Grafana Play is a collection of ready-made dashboards and apps that you can use without creating an account. Developer Advocates Matt Abrams, Paul Balogh, and Nicole van der Hoeven discuss how to take advantage of this awesome tool and what you can do with it.

Introducing Cortex Plugins and Customization

To be a true system of record, your IDP needs to be a source of truth for all the data in your stack. While Cortex offers 50+ out of the box integrations, and the ability to bring in custom data, we know there are occasions where you’ll also want to visualize or take action on data sourced from other places including internally developed tools or repositories. That’s why we’re excited to officially launch the Cortex plugin framework plus UI customization. Now users can.

What's new with Aiven Q2/Q3 2023: Latest product updates and features in the Aiven Platform

Join us for an exciting opportunity to discover all the latest product developments in Aiven’s open source data platform! During this webinar, we will be sharing how Aiven is developing its platform capabilities around strict data residency and optimized cost requirements with Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC).

How to Download Files from URLs with a Bash Script

In today's dynamic IT environment, automation, and scripting are essential tools for IT professionals and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Whether it's for deploying applications, managing infrastructure, or troubleshooting, scripts can save countless hours of manual labor, increase efficiency, and reduce human error. One common task that professionals often need to automate is file downloading from a URL using a shell script, specifically a bash script.

How to Disable Fast Startup in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016

As IT professionals and Managed Service Providers (MSPs), understanding and controlling system features is a part of the job. Fast Startup (also known as Hiberboot or Fast Boot) in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, while generally beneficial, may sometimes require to be turned off. In this post, we delve into what Fast Startup is, its implications, how to disable it manually or via PowerShell, and the differences between Fast Startup and Hibernation.

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Serverless Elasticsearch: Is ELK or OpenSearch Serverless Architecture Effective?

Here's the question of the hour. Can you use serverless Elasticsearch or OpenSearch effectively at scale, while keeping your budget in check? The biggest historical pain points around Elasticsearch and OpenSearch are their management complexity and costs. Despite announcements from both Elasticsearch and OpenSearch around serverless capabilities, these challenges remain. Both of these tools are not truly serverless, let alone stateless, hiding their underlying complexity and passing along higher management costs to the customer.