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I'm happy to announce that visual regression & snapshot testing for our Playwright powered browser checks is now GA. If you have used these capabilities with your Playwright tests on your local machine or in your CI/CD pipeline, you can now use them 1:1 on Checkly.

For users using monitoring module, migrating their custom dashboards, navigation items and permissions and restrictions to Icinga DB Web has been made easier with the recent Icinga DB Web release (v1.1.1) through its migrate command. Once Icinga DB Web has been upgraded to v1.1.1, run the command icingacli icingadb migrate --help to see the avaliable actions under migrate command and what each action does.

Establishing effective IT management frameworks hinges on selecting the right solution, vital for optimizing efficiency and safeguarding security. In a recent survey, 72% of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) prioritized enhancing security in response to growing cyber threats, with 47% recognizing the importance of automation for operational efficiency in 2024. In this context, two prominent contenders are NinjaOne and VMware’s Workspace ONE.

Since the advent of ChatGPT, companies have been racing to build AI features into their product. Previously, if you wanted AI features you needed to hire a team of specialists to build machine learning models in-house. But now that OpenAI’s models are an API call away, the investment required to build shiny AI has never been lower. We were one of those companies. Here’s our journey to building our first AI feature, and some practical advice if you’ll be doing the same.

PostgreSQL metrics monitoring is important to ensure that PostgreSQL is performing as expected and to identify and resolve problems quickly. In this tutorial, you will install OpenTelemetry Collector to collect PostgreSQL metrics and then send the collected data to SigNoz for monitoring and visualization. In this tutorial, we cover: If you want to jump straight into implementation, start with this prerequisites section.

Apache Spark versus Kubernetes? Or both? The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in companies deploying Spark on Kubernetes (K8s). This isn’t surprising, considering the benefits that K8s brings to the table. Adopting Kubernetes can help improve resource utilization and reduce cloud expenses, a key initiative in many organizations given today’s economic climate.