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Top Docker Logging Techniques

Docker is a popular platform that enables developers to package, distribute, and run applications within isolated environments called containers. Logs play an important role in the use of Docker for numerous reasons. For example, The running of Docker containers in isolation makes it difficult to handle troubleshooting issues and monitor application behavior effectively in the absence of detailed logging.

Aiven for Metrics is Now Available

There's a new metrics service in town – Aiven for Metrics provides Prometheus metrics powered by Thanos. Aiven recently added a new service to our offerings: Aiven for Metrics is now in Early Availability. Similar to Aiven for M3, Aiven for Metrics is a Prometheus-compatible solution powered by Thanos, a CNCF project aimed at providing highly available Prometheus metrics with long term storage capabilities.

Scaling Your Time Series Workloads with InfluxDB 3.0: New Tools, Improvements, and Products Now Generally Available

Over the past year since its initial release, the InfluxDB 3.0 product suite has seen numerous new features and performance improvements. These improvements reinforce InfluxDB 3.0’s position as the industry’s leading time series database, offering unparalleled performance with unlimited cardinality, high-speed, independently scalable ingest, real-time querying, and superior data compression using Parquet format on cost-effective object storage.

InfluxData Brings Higher Performance and New Features to InfluxDB 3.0 to Power Massive Time Series Workloads at Scale

New capabilities, including faster query performance and management tooling, advance the InfluxDB 3.0 product line InfluxDB Clustered general availability gives developers the power of InfluxDB 3.0 for the self-managed stack.

Announcing $60M in Funding to Build the Future of Developer Experience

TLDR: We raised $60M in new funding, led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from World Innovation Labs, Cross Creek, Alpha Square Group, Patrick and John Collison (Stripe) IVP, Sequoia, and Y Combinator. With this new infusion of capital, we’re looking to further grow developer awareness around IDPs and invest in our platform capabilities with enhanced workflows, engineering intelligence, user interface, and of course, AI.

How Webpage Monitoring Enhances Technical SEO

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the art of bringing your site higher in search engine result pages (SERPs) to increase its discoverability and competitive advantage. It involves detecting keywords that your target audience uses, publishing well-optimized content that's easy to crawl and rank for search engines and valuable to users, posting expert content on trusted sources to build credibility, and so on. Yet, technical SEO is much different.

Avoid ITSM and NOC surprises with better context

Rapid, proactive responses to unexpected system behavior and swift, efficient incident remediation are hallmarks of great IT teams. But the most successful NOC and incident management teams share the following: The right context gives teams visibility across systems, helps them collaborate and share knowledge, and makes every team member more efficient.

Multi Element Selection in Icinga DB Web

From time to time we want to bring not so widely known features of Icinga into spotlight. In this effort it’s a not so obvious feature, that was available in the monitoring module of Icinga Web 2 at some point already. It has also been available in Icinga DB Web since its release. We’re talking about selecting multiple list items. Our goal was to make it as obvious as possible, without wasting screen space for those users who are already aware of the feature.

More bang for your Kubernetes buck: How automatic rightsizing saves up to 50%

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are increasingly relying on Kubernetes (K8s) to efficiently manage their containerized workloads. However, many organizations face a significant challenge when it comes to effectively utilizing compute resources.