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Announcing InfluxDB Clustered: InfluxDB 3.0 for Self-Managed Environments

Today, we’re excited to announce InfluxDB Clustered, our latest product developed on the InfluxDB 3.0 product suite. InfluxDB Clustered is the evolution of InfluxDB Enterprise, our popular self-managed product for large-scale time series workloads. For enterprises, the performance leap from InfluxDB Enterprise to InfluxDB Clustered is orders of magnitude higher with significant improvements across analytics, storage, and costs.

Sentry's Open Source Values

This is the 25th year of the Open Source movement, and as with any social enterprise there is a constant effort to maintain and at times renegotiate the meaning of terms and the values behind them. Open Source is a child of the Free Software movement. It uncritically inherited its values and philosophy from its parent, but are those still sufficient today?

What to Do When You Have 1000+ Fields?

So you have been adding more and more logs to your Graylog instance, gathering up your server, network, application logs, and throwing in anything else you can think of. This is exactly what Graylog is designed for, to collect all the logs and have them ready for you to search through in one place. Unfortunately, during your administration of Graylog, you go to the System -> Overview screen and see the big bad red box, saying you are having indexing failures.

Sending and Filtering Python Logs with OpenTelemetry

While support for logging in the OpenTelemetry Python project is listed as 'experimental,' it's completely possible to send logs from your Python application. The Opentelemetry Collector has support for numerous existing logging systems, effectively exporting log data from wherever you were sending logs currently; you can also use the filelog receiver to tail and send logs from files. The only 'experimental' portion of the Python SDK is sending logs directly from code-level instrumentation.

14,000+ GitHub stars, 4 Million Docker Downloads, in-context Logs and a Team Workation - SigNal 28

Welcome to the 28th edition of our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 28! Our team shipped many features and improvements last month. We also had an amazing team workation in Goa, India. Let’s dive in to see what humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of August 2023.

The 12 Cats of Observability

On the surface, business-critical IT infrastructure and cats may not seem like they have a lot in common. But they’re way more alike than you might think. Our feline friends contain multitudes, as any cat parent will tell you. They’re complex and can sometimes drive you up a wall. But once they warm up to you—and you warm up to them—the joys and benefits of having them in your life outweigh just about everything. Sounds a lot like technology, right?

How to Ace Your Services with PagerDuty

It’s finals week for the US Open, one of the most celebrated sports events in the world. Tennis is my favorite sport to watch as I’m fascinated by the strength, composure and endurance each player displays while standing by themselves on the court, sometimes during incredibly long matches – the current record is 11h05.

How to Build a Change Management Workflow

Change Management is a critical practice for organizations to effectively adapt, innovate, and maintain stability. It involves various aspects of an organization's IT infrastructure, applications, processes, and policies. As the scope and complexity of changes continue to grow, the need to automate a Change Management workflow becomes paramount. In this article, we will explore the different types of changes described by ITIL to then break down the process behind automating the Change Management process.

How generative AI is increasing cyber risk & what to do to make sure you're ready

Generative AI is all the buzz these days with the popularity of platforms and tools such as ChatGPT, Bard, Scribe, Jasper, and others experiencing exponential growth. This is a technology that has come to the fore with the force of a runaway train that’s bringing us head long into the future at the speed of light. It is transforming everything we do from writing code to making travel plans. And cybersecurity is no exception.

Mastering Network Monitoring: Your Guide to Uninterrupted Excellence

In the age of digital dominance, where every click and connection propels businesses forward, the lifeline of success lies in the seamless operation of computer networks. Imagine this: your website’s pulse is in perfect sync, applications running smoothly, and customers navigating without a second’s delay. This is where the art of network monitoring steps in, weaving the invisible threads that ensure unparalleled performance and uninterrupted excellence.