Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Announcing Application Observability in Grafana Cloud, with native support for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

The Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics) offers the freedom and flexibility for monitoring application performance. But we’ve also heard from many of our users and customers that you need a solution that makes it easier and faster to get started with application monitoring.

Out-of-band communication: Maintaining business continuity

Today, most organizations rely on several different secure communication mediums — like email, real-time chat, video calls, and SMS — to transmit information, collaborate, and keep teams aligned. While modern communication tools help teams stay connected, the digital landscape is not without its challenges. For most organizations, it’s only a matter of time before network disruptions, security breaches, and system failures impact main lines of communication.

From Chaos to Actionable Insights with PagerDuty Integrations and Automation

It’s 2023. In today’s world, every company and individual, regardless of their industry, relies on software to increase productivity. Our users expect our technology to be available and reliable at all times. If your software serves businesses within a single country during regular working hours, they expect it to be available throughout that time. Easy, right?

Serverless Workflows using Durable Functions and Logic Apps in Azure - Jonah Andersson

In this session titled "Serverless Workflows using Durable Functions and Logic Apps in Azure", DevOps Engineer Jonah Andersson explores Azure Durable Functions and Logic Apps, emphasizing their role in serverless workspaces. She discusses the benefits of low-code/no-code solutions, showcases diverse application design patterns, and much more Concluding with insights on when to use each service, this session offers a concise overview for those interested in serverless computing.

Analytics Plus webinar: Catch critical signs of vulnerable security protocols

Security is all about addressing every potential vulnerability and creating formidable barriers to deter malicious actors from breaching your sensitive data. Given the multitude of vulnerabilities that need attention, security professionals often find themselves inundated with tasks. It's not just a matter of strengthening your infrastructure; it's about ensuring that every potential entry point is securely sealed to thwart malicious actors' attempts to compromise your infrastructure.

Analytics Plus webinar: How to make the help desk your first line of cyberdefense

When it comes to detecting a cyberattack, machine data such as logs, metrics, and telemetry is all-important. Sifting through mountains of machine data and recognizing threats is one way to secure your organization. But prevention is better than cure, and sticking to the basics and following best practices is the best way to keep threats at bay. Since the help desk holds a record of everything that happens in your IT, connecting help desk operations and events with common gateways helps prevent loopholes from being exploited.

Bringing automation to telco edge clouds at scale

Canonical and Spectro Cloud have collaborated to develop an effective telco edge cloud solution, Cloud Native Execution Platform (CNEP). CNEP is built with Canonical’s open source infrastructure solutions and Spectro Cloud’s Palette containers-as-a-service (CaaS) platform. This technology stack empowers operators to benefit from the cost optimisation and agility improvements delivered by edge clouds in a highly secure and performant way.

5 Best Frontend Error Monitoring Tools

You have so many options for frontend error monitoring today, and they all do slightly different things. We looked at everyone and did a breakdown of the most important features for frontend, the problems developers run into, end user reviews, and pricing structures to see how the best vendors stack up.

Why Every SRE and DevOps Beginner Needs a Status Page

So, you’ve ventured into the world of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps. Exciting, isn’t it? Yet, amidst the code, deployments, and system architectures, there’s a silent hero that often goes unnoticed — the humble status page. In this dynamic environment, it’s not just about keeping systems up but communicating effectively when they aren’t. That’s where Uptime.com steps in, like a superhero in a world of mortal website monitoring services.