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Although FireHydrant has spent five years focused on what happens after your team (erg, I mean service 🙄) gets paged, the topic of alerting often comes up in discussions with our community. People are tired of paying big bucks for software that’s expensive, bloated, and hasn’t seen much innovation. Clearly, there’s a problem here – and we’re tackling it head on.

Complete guide to monitor Cloudflare workers using Prometheus Exporter.

I recently delved into the idea of using labels within Prometheus to craft objects and hierarchies where none initially existed. Check out that piece here. The essence was harnessing the prowess of OTEL to achieve more, faster. The ambition? Transform these abstract virtual objects and integrate them into SquaredUp's knowledge graph, thereby unlocking the potential of data mesh and correlation.

Working in the cloud is certainly convenient, but the convenience comes at a price. With more and more organizations transitioning to the cloud, and a rise in preference towards cloud-native applications, hosting most, if not all the components of your business in the cloud is becoming increasingly common.

Fault incidents are inevitable. They occur in any large-scale enterprise IT environment, especially when: In fact, research indicates, more than half (50%) the leaders in tech and business organizations consider the complexity of their data architecture a significant pain point. From an end-user perspective, businesses must overcome complex architecture in order to ensure service delivery and continuity.

Traditional monitoring methods become inefficient as organizations shift from legacy software systems to complex cloud-native architectures. This transition renders these methods less effective, as they no longer provide the critical insights needed. In response, observability engineering has emerged as an important discipline, offering a more comprehensive understanding of modern software systems. This article will take you through the definition, importance, and processes of observability engineering.

Constantly juggling IT incidents can be exhausting as you try to track and resolve them before they escalate into disruptions. With each incident demanding prompt and precise attention, keeping up takes significant work. However, you can manage these challenges more efficiently and with less stress and less risk by optimizing your incident-tracking process.

It's a lot easier to get + stay CRA compliant when you have robust SSCS across your pipeline. See how using Cloudsmith helps.

This week, the European Union (EU) reached an agreement on the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). See if your product must comply, how to comply and what is exempt.

EU law is changing for hardware and software makers. Here's your 2-minute summary of the Cyber Resilience Act.