We recently shipped version 3.2 of the honeybadger Ruby Gem, which includes a new feature to make it easier to add context to your error reports.

The Spiceworks browser extension, which keeps you connected to Spiceworks right from your Chrome browser, now let’s you see Cloud Help Desk ticket alerts and open tickets, even if you don’t have your Cloud Help Desk open!

With the proper auditing enabled (Logon/Logoff – Logon (Failure)) and EventSentry installed however, we can permanently block remote users / hosts who attempt to log on too many times with a wrong password. Setting this up is surprisingly simple.

Though re:Invent technically runs for another day, the fourth day is traditionally the final day in terms of large announcements — this certainly rings true for this year as well, with several significant announcements from Amazon and associates.

If business professionals ignore network and system issues, the consequences could be dire. For instance, imagine what might happen if your company suffers a cyberattack, flood or supply chain failure. In this scenario, your critical networks and systems may slow down or stop working. And if you lack an effective business continuity management (BCM) strategy, you risk downtime and outages that could put a significant dent in your business’ bottom line.

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Letting the right people know about incidents is an easier-said-than-done kind of task. Every incident is different and some notifications simply don’t need to land in everyone’s inbox. We’ve listened to a lot of customers who like the idea of posting an incident to their status page, but not having that incident sent as notifications to all their subscribers.

In this post, I will walk you through creating a simple Prometheus monitoring stack, connecting it to Grafana for pretty dashboards, and finally configuring alerts via PagerTree.

As re:Invent continues, so to does the string of announcements promising to change the face of cloud computing. Many of the major announcements today came from Amazon itself — amongst other items, AWS announced two new containerized cloud offerings.

This month we released a new version of our hex package, which includes a major refactor of the internal client logic as well as some new features, improvements, and bug fixes. We're super excited to share the release of honeybadger v0.7 with you! Here are the highlights.