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SMART goals: What they are and how to apply them in IT projects

Whether in personal or professional life, goals always set a direction for where you wish to go, in addition to defining the guidelines with which to reach that desired end. In addition, awareness and motivation are generated about the actions that are carried out, which allows us to focus our energies and efforts.

Integrating Gremlin with your observability tools

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. To get the most value out of Chaos Engineering and reliability testing, you need a way to observe your service’s behavior. Observability tools offer insight into how your systems are performing, but observability on its own isn’t enough. You need a way to monitor your systems while testing their reliability so you can determine whether your service passed or failed a test.

Optimizing Queries in InfluxDB 3.0 Using Progressive Evaluation

In a previous post, we described the technique that makes the ”most recent values” queries hundreds of times faster and has benefited many of our customers. The idea behind this technique is to progressively evaluate time-organized files until we reach the most recent values.

Integrate usage data into your product analytics strategy

Web applications emit a wealth of metadata and user interaction information that’s critical to understanding user behavior. However, parsing this data to find what is most relevant to your product analytics project can be challenging—what one product analyst might find useful, another might consider unnecessary noise.

Observability: Self Hosted vs Fully Managed - Exploring the choices

You are running a complex, mission-critical application, and you understand you need an advanced Observability solution to efficiently troubleshoot and proactively prevent issues. Yet you have a choice to make—should you choose a “Fully Managed” SaaS solution such as Datadog, Newrelic, or Dynatrace, or should you pick an Open-Source solution that you can host yourself?

How we handle sensitive data in BigQuery

As a provider of incident management software, we at incident.io manage sensitive data regarding our customers. This includes Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about their employees, such as emails, first names, and last names, as well as confidential details regarding customer incidents, such as names and summaries. Consequently, we approach the management of this data with a great deal of care.

Extended protections for cloud using CNCF open source security tools

In today's rapidly evolving cloud landscape, robust security measures are more critical than ever. At Elastic Security, we're excited to introduce our extended protections for cloud — a key component of our cloud detection and response (CDR) use case. This initiative seamlessly integrates open source security tools from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem with Elastic Security's powerful analytics platform.

The Ultimate Guide for Enterprise DevOps

Speed and reliability in incident management have always been the formula for many businesses’ success. But what happens when this already demanding workflow needs to be done at scale? The answer is adopting enterprise DevOps methodologies to scale operations efficiently. DevOps benefits are magnified when they are correctly scaled across an entire enterprise. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore enterprise DevOps’s fundamental principles, challenges, and components.

Enabling Out-of-the-Box Performance Insights in Unity Games with the Sentry SDK

The Sentry Unity SDK has been effective for crash reporting, including: We are confident that we have the best crash-reporting solution out there. Now we were looking towards offering some out-of-the-box insights into the game’s performance. Right out of the gate, we hit the first question: What would auto-instrumentation for Unity games look like?