A few weeks ago we had a major incident. We were releasing our Practical Guide to Incident Management, and after posting about it online an incident.io employee noticed that the page wasn’t loading. Just to set the scene, I’ve been at incident.io for 3 months and don’t have any experience of incidents in my previous role. When the team got paged I expected this to be one of those “follow along and learn how the wizards work their magic” exercises.
IT experts and techies are constantly devising new ways to do more with less in our rapidly evolving world. Traditional platforms monitoring and modern technological maintenance take a large portion of a conventional organization’s IT budget. This leaves limited resources to develop new standards-based and adaptive applications that fulfill core business demands.
To err is human. The process of software development can’t be error-free; fixing errors is part and parcel of building software applications. And, no matter how much you dislike those harsh error messages when your code fails and exits, you have to admit that they save you from a lot worse.
This post is the third in a series of deeper dive articles discussing DORA metrics. In previous articles, we looked at: The third metric we’ll examine, Change Failure Rate, is a lagging indicator that helps teams and organizations understand the quality of software that has been shipped, providing guidance on what the team can do to improve in the future.
The MQTT Consumer Plugin is one of our most widely used input plugins for Telegraf. If you need a little bit of background, then I highly recommend checking out the following: I plan to release an MQTT best practices blog soon, but we thought this plugin partnership was too good not to talk about now.
