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OpenTelemetry Collector - What Is It?

Before we dive into the Collector, let’s cover the components that make up the OpenTelemetry project. If you missed it, our post What is OpenTelemetry gives a high level introduction to OpenTelemetry and the key components of OpenTelemetry project: The OpenTelemetry collector is optional when using a SaaS service like Scout. Even so, knowing what the Collector can do and when to use it is helpful to understand.

Resolve Actions and Espressive Barista

Resolve and Espressive have partnered to bring you an enterprise-class chatbot and Virtual Support Agent that can actually resolve incidents and complete service requests using the Resolve Actions Intelligent IT Automation platform. And because Resolve Actions is an IT automation platform, you can fully customize your automations & runbooks that are triggered by Espressive Barista to undertake almost any IT task.

Hot Ones Interview with an Engineering Manager

In this video, we do a spin off of one of our favorite shows Hot Ones, where we combine an interview with Web Platform Team Technical Project Manager Steven and our Web Platform Team EM Vladan, and hot sauces. Meet both of them in this in this video, and watch them suffer as they go from one hot sauce level to the next just like they do in Hot ones.

How to Build Unified Cross-Functional Teams in Today's Hybrid IT Landscape

Data continues to be a major driver of business operations, and as a result, it’s becoming more common to see cross-functional teams working within IT. In 2022, for example, data-related projects enforcing data hygiene, data integrity, or data security continue to lead most functional leaders’ investments.

Be Proactive Amid Growing Cyber Security Concerns

Over the past few weeks, we’ve all been paying very close attention to the events unfolding in eastern Europe. As an individual, it’s heartbreaking to see a war break out and the impact it’s having across the region. We know that cyberattacks are now a part of war. We also know cyberattacks can be targeted, but also have the potential for unintended consequences and increased impact as they can spread outside of the initial target.

How Privacy Organizations and NGOs Help Build a Better Society

When we think of NGOs we usually think of organizations that take action regarding children, diseases, education, or poverty, but most of the time we don't think of privacy. In fact, there are tons of non-governmental organizations working hard to protect everyone's basic right to privacy. Many people are out there right now dedicating their daily lives to safeguarding our freedom and privacy in the digital era. Supporting them is more important than you can imagine.

Improved visibility for Issue Alerts

As most developers know, alert-fatigue is real, and the last thing you want is another feed of notifications. Read on to learn how the new Alert Details view helps you filter out notifications for Issue Alerts you don’t care about, and how it can help you focus on the ones that do. When you get started with Sentry, you’ll likely create an Alert for every Issue.

Civo Update - April 2022

In March, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released its Annual Survey 2021. Civo featured alongside the likes of Amazon and Azure when CNCF asked developers "Does your organization use any certified Kubernetes installers?". Saiyam, Director of Technical Evangelism at Civo, also released an update on the new advancements so far for our 2022 Roadmap.

How-To Obtain Cloud Pricing at Scale

In 2020, we started an internal project to price our data center systems to understand what they might cost to run in the AWS or Azure cloud environments. We initially used some of the online pricing tools available from these vendors, but they were slow and difficult to use in bulk. You can find the public cloud tools here: AWS and Azure. We were forced to add individual systems one at a time and pick options for each because of the nature of these tools.