Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Bootstrapping a cloud native multi-data center observability stack

Bram Vogelaar is a DevOps Cloud Engineer at The Factory, and he recently delivered an intro to observability talk during our Grafana Labs' EMEA meetup. When I talk to customers, they might tell me about how their applications are running in two data centers, but when we probe a little further, it turns out that their observability stack is only available in one of them. This revelation hit close to home last March.

Logstash: Path to ECS for 8.0

The Elastic Common Schema is a community-driven effort to provide consistent semantic meaning to datasets so that data from disparate sources can be meaningfully used together. In Logstash 8.0, ECS compatibility is on-by-default — this is a pretty major change to how many plugins operate. In this talk, we outline the rationale behind the transition and also highlight how to opt-OUT of the transition with a simple pipeline setting.

The Math & Fun Behind Nesting Event Rules with Event Orchestration

PagerDuty Senior Product Manager Frank Emery joins us on Twitch to talk about Event Orchestration, a new feature in the PagerDuty Platform. We found in our data that 20% of incidents are resolved - by human responders - in under 5 minutes. Why are team members being interrupted for these alerts? Automation is a better answer. Event Orchestration utilizes powerful, flexible rules to turn alerts into automated activities so your team can keep working and avoid unnecessary interruptions!

SauceLabs & PagerDuty Notifications Channel for API Tests & Monitors

"APIs are the backbone of the apps and web services that run the world, yet most companies don’t have a true understanding of their functional uptime and reliability. Sauce Labs collects those insights by leveraging functional and integration tests as monitors. This provides a single source of truth for uptime and detailed reporting for when problems occur with functionality or performance. With PagerDuty, Sauce Labs' users gain granular control over notifications to ensure compliance with company policies while centralizing test and incident response processes among developers, testers, and product owners.