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Your applications rely on third-party software running throughout your infrastructure, and it can be challenging to monitor each of these technologies individually. To give you the visibility you need, Datadog Live Processes now monitors all of your third-party workloads in one place.

The more tools that your teams need to execute their workflows, the more friction and lost productivity there can be, especially if each tool requires a different CLI or set of APIs. Retool is a low-code platform that allows you to build internal web applications using a drag-and-drop interface. By integrating with a number of key backend databases and APIs, Retool enables you to create custom, centralized management tools to serve a wide range of employee-facing use cases.

In case you don't remember, or missed my first article: OnlineOrNot started as a SaaS I built and shipped a v0.0.1 of in 7 days. It was an Absolute Minimal Viable Product. You couldn't even login with a password. Still can't, actually. You're probably wondering what it does. OnlineOrNot is a website monitoring service that provides both uptime, and page speed checks.

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Kubernetes capacity planning is one of the main challenges that infrastructure engineers have to face, as understanding Kubernetes limits and requests is not an easy thing. You might be reserving way more resources than you need to ensure your containers don’t run out of memory, or are CPU throttled. If you are in this situation, you’re going to be charged for those resources even if they aren’t being used, and it will also make deployments more difficult to schedule.

Grafana Explore makes correlating metrics and logs easy. Prometheus queries are automatically transformed into Loki queries . And we will be extending this feature in Grafana 8.0 to support smooth logs correlation not only from Prometheus, but also from Graphite metrics. Prometheus and Loki have almost the same query syntax, so transforming between them is very natural. However, Graphite syntax for queries is different, and in order to map it to Loki, some extra setup is required.