As a software engineer running applications in production, it is essential to monitor this environment to maintain the health of your applications. Production monitoring software and systems are used to improve observability so that you can better understand your operating environment and visualise performance issues easily.
GrafanaCONline 2022 wrapped up on Friday, and the big finish featured sessions that covered important changes in Grafana Labs technical documentation, Grafana Cloud’s role in activist engineering projects, and the benefits of load testing with k6. There was also a great success story out of East Africa, where a major bank switched to a business monitoring system with Grafana and improved its customer satisfaction and revenue.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation published their Annual Report for 2021 which outlines the past year and what can be expected in the upcoming 6 months. Community leaders and 62,000 contributors on GitHub came together to report on initiatives and updates to create CNCF’s second annual report. So, here are the important updates from the Kubernetes Annual Report that we think you need to know.
Blocking access to certain URLs is a simple, effective strategy for protecting users and the network. But, in a world where new and increasingly sophisticated scams seem to appear almost weekly, the task of maintaining that list can become overly burdensome when performed manually. Torq offers a number of ways to automate URL blocklist management, reducing manual effort and speeding up response to new threats.
If you’re managing IT or infrastructure these days, you almost certainly depend on dozens of hosted services or cloud applications. From major cloud services like Amazon, Azure, or Google, to customer service tools and marketing platforms, your business depends on the uptime of others. Each of these services publishes a status page where they warn about maintenance, outages, and performance issues but can you keep track of all of those at the same time?
