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6 Steps to Getting Started With Observability

During my office hours, I frequently get asked for practical tips on getting started with observability. Often it’s from folks on teams who are already practicing continuous delivery (or trying to get there) and are interested in more advanced practices like progressive delivery. They know observability can help—but as individual contributors—they don’t sign the checks, so they feel powerless to help get their team started with observability.

The essentials of central log collection with WEF and WEC

Last week we covered the essentials of event logging: Ensuring that all your systems are writing logs about the important events or activities occurring on them. This week we will cover the essentials of centrally collecting these Event Logs on a Window Event Collector (WEC) server, which then forwards all logs to Elastic Security.

4 Major Capabilities of Automated Incident Management

Automated incident management ensures that critical events are detected, addressed and resolved in a fast, efficient manner. Automation allows incident management tools to integrate with each other and fosters instant communication across the systems. Automation tears down barriers across IT operations (ITOps) teams and ensures all departments are on the same page. Teams gain full visibility into incident status to verify that incidents are addressed by the relevant groups.

Q&A from the Moogsoft/Datadog Fireside Chat

On April 15th Moogsoft’s VP Marketing, John Haley, welcomed Datadog Product Manager, Alex Vetras, along with DevOps Institute Chief Ambassador, Helen Beal, and Moogsoft’s CTO, Dave Casper, for an informal roundtable exploring how users can now see rich-context incidents from across the full stack in minutes, and the opportunities this presents to organizations.

Covea Insurance drives customer service innovation with ServiceNow

The insurance sector is incredibly competitive and tightly regulated, so being able to provide great customer service is vital to success. And having the right technology is imperative to delivering quality service. At Covéa Insurance, the UK arm of France’s top mutual insurance group, we provide commercial, motor, high-net worth, property, pet, and protection insurance to more than 2 million customers.

Atlassian Open DevOps Overview Video

Software and DevOps teams have everything they need to develop, ship, and operate software in Atlassian Open DevOps, an development experience built on Jira Software.Open DevOps starts with Jira Software, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Opsgenie. Teams can easily add the tools they want, such as GitHub or GitLab, with a single click. In this video get an overview of Open DevOps and how it can supercharge your development.