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Choosing the Right Metric: A Guide to Percentiles and Averages

Not sure which performance metric to use to measure your application performance? Don’t worry – you’re not alone. With a wide variety of options, the task of choosing the right metric can be daunting. This post will help you decide which metric is right for your monitoring needs by discussing the strengths and limitations of each metric.

How InfluxData and Dremio Leverage the Apache Ecosystem

InfluxData and Dremio have always been at the forefront of embracing open source solutions to enhance their product offerings. This post discusses how both companies currently leverage the Apache Ecosystem and describes the downstream impact these powerful technologies have on their offerings. InfluxData created and maintains InfluxDB, a time series platform.

Manage Kubernetes environments with GitOps and dynamic config

Most modern infrastructure architectures are complex to deploy, involving many parts. Despite the benefits of automation, many teams still chose to configure their architecture manually, carried out by a deployment expert or, in some cases, teams of deployment engineers. Manual configurations open up the door for human error. While DevOps is very useful in developing and deploying software, using Git combined with CI/CD is useful beyond the world of software engineering.

Integrating MetricFire and Heroku for Web Hosting

Today's fast-paced digital landscape demands efficient and reliable web hosting solutions. As websites and applications become increasingly complex, businesses are constantly seeking ways to optimize their performance and ensure seamless user experiences. One crucial aspect of this optimization process is the effective monitoring and tracking of vital metrics.

How to Integrate CloudWatch and Sentry with MetricFire

CloudWatch and Sentry are two powerful tools that play crucial roles in monitoring and error tracking, making them essential for any organization that wants to ensure the smooth operation of its applications and systems. CloudWatch, developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities for AWS resources and applications, providing real-time insights into system performance and resource utilization.

Reference Architecture Series: Scaling Syslog

In this livestream, Cribl’s Ahmed Kira and I go into more detail about the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture, with a focus on scaling syslog. They share a few use cases, some guidelines for handling high-volume UDP and TCP syslog traffic, and talk about the pros and cons of some of the different approaches to tackling this challenge. It’s also available on our podcast feed if you want to listen on the go.

How To Gain Back Your Velocity When Working With Kubernetes - Civo Navigate NA 2023

Lukas Gentele, CEO of Loft Labs, delves into the intricacies of Kubernetes, its challenges, and the potential solutions to enhance developer efficiency. He shares insights on virtual clusters, the evolution of deployment methods, and the role of transparent abstractions in Kubernetes.

3 ways customer centricity can help technology service providers

IT service providers have historically thought in terms of “technology first,” but that’s changing. More and more of the top technology service providers in Asia-Pacific (APAC) are adopting a customer-centric and industry-oriented approach to how they devise, deliver, and diversify their solutions. That shift in thinking might seem unremarkable. After all, isn’t everyone talking about customer centricity these days?

Grafana Loki hits 20K GitHub stars: 20 fun facts about the open source logging project

The Grafana Loki GitHub repository just hit 20K stars! You can’t exchange GitHub stars for coffee at Starbucks or pay rent with it, but this is a big milestone that is a testament to the enormous momentum of this open source project. Thank you to the Grafana Loki community — this couldn’t have been possible without you! To celebrate this 20K benchmark, here are 20 completely random, but fun facts and tips about Grafana Loki: Interested in learning more about logging?