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What's a fair compensation for being on-call?

For the vast majority of organisations, it’s necessary to have some form of round the clock cover to support the business. Whilst it’s most commonly a concern for engineering, it’s increasingly common to have folks from various disciplines available out-of-hours. Irrespective of role, compensating people fairly is an important factor of running a healthy and effective on-call system.

Video: How to configure and customize Grafana OnCall

Managing your on-call rotations just got a little less stressful. With Grafana 8.0, we introduced unified alerting, which centralizes alerting information into a single, searchable view. With the introduction of Grafana OnCall, an easy-to-use on-call management tool available in Grafana Cloud, you can now extend the alerting workflow in Grafana to ensure that the right notifications reach the right people at the right time using the right method.

Finding & Fixing Asymmetric Routing Issues

Asymmetric routing is a situation in which packets take one path to go from source to destination, but replies take a different path to return. Notice I called it a “situation” and not an “issue”? That’s because it’s not always a problem. It only becomes a problem where there’s something stateful in the path, like a NAT device or a firewall.

How to collect metrics and logs for NGINX using the OpsAgent

The Ops agent is Google’s recommended agent for collating your application’s telemetry data, and forwarding them to GCP for visualization, alerting and monitoring. The Ops agent collates logs and a metrics collector into one single powerhouse. Some of the key advantages of using the Ops agent are outlined below.

Partner Amplification - Logz.io Achieves AWS Security Competency

We’ve got some outstanding news to share in the arena of security partnerships: Logz.io® Cloud-based SIEM has officially achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency! This designation within the Logging, Monitoring, SIEM, Threat Detection, and Analytics category further demonstrates Logz.io’s proven commitment to delivering best-in-class security.

Instrumentation: Measuring Application Performance at the Code Level

Technology is taking over the world at a great pace. Everyone is getting in the loop of technology, whether it be a company, organization, startup, or even a 2-year-old kid. Most companies are using the latest technologies for updated features. They took their business online in order to remain in the current market. They make some applications for their base products and run their business through that website or application. But having an application is challenging.

New Monitoring Features and Dashboards in eG Enterprise

Small thoughtful, beautifully packed gifts are the best – just like our UI features Sometimes it is the small things that infuriate IT users the most – those tiny annoyances in a GUI that make you use some annoying and clunky workaround several times a day. Our eG Enterprise product management team understands this, and as our customers know, we are always willing to consider even small feature changes to improve usability.