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Managing Prometheus cardinality in Grafana Cloud: Adaptive Metrics FAQ

One of the most talked about topics in observability today is centered around the question of how to get more value out of the ever-increasing amount of data collected by agents, collectors, scrapers, and the like. Back in May, we announced Adaptive Metrics, a new feature in Grafana Cloud that allows you to reduce the cardinality of Prometheus metrics and the overall volume and costs of your metrics.

Scaling Up to Keep Costs Down: Automation for Web Application Incident Management

Any organization that’s keeping up with today’s sharp rise in business demands (or better yet, getting ahead of the game) is doing so by getting innovative and jumping at the chance to do things differently. They’re not relying on the old ways or trying to use their existing toolbox. Instead, organizations are looking to the newest technologies and means of adding efficiency to as many day-to-day functions as possible.

Reliability Best Practices: How Gremlin Uses Gremlin

Ensuring software availability is essential for any SaaS company—including Gremlin. To do that, our teams need to identify the reliability risks hiding in our systems. That’s why our development, platform, and SRE teams use Gremlin regularly to perform Chaos Engineering experiments, run reliability tests, and track the reliability of our systems against our standards. Along the way they’ve picked up a thing or two about how to find and fix reliability risks with Gremlin.

Behind the Scenes: Mattermost OpenOps AI Mindmeld | July 27, 2023

Tune in for a behind-the-scenes discussion on the advancement of Mattermost's AI tools and how they're being integrated into the team's current projects. The main topics covered include using AI to create tweets, the potential of using the tool to auto-generate text that resembles a user's tone, how to improve public awareness and involvement in OpenOps, and more.

How to monitor connector's API Connections in Logic Apps?

Let us consider a scenario where a Logic App is used to communicate with SharePoint through API connections, known as connectors. When configuring the connector, it communicates with Azure AD, retrieving a username and password and continuously refreshing the authentication token. When the Logic App calls the connector, it performs operations like uploading files to SharePoint.

4 Node.js Logging libraries which make sophisticated logging simpler

Node.js logging, like any form of software instrumentation, isn’t an easy thing to get right. It takes time, effort, and a willingness to continue to iterate until a proper balance is struck. There are so many points to consider, including: Previously, here on the Loggly blog, I began exploring these questions in the context of three of the most popular web development languages: PHP, Python, and Ruby. But these aren’t the only popular languages in use today.

SMS Alerts for GitHub Actions - Civo Navigate NA 2023

Rishab Kumar, a Developer Evangelist at Twilio, shares their insights on implementing SMS alerts for GitHub actions during an informative talk. Their presentation primarily focuses on using GitHub Actions for build and CI/CD tasks due to its efficient cost structure. However, Rishab points out a feature gap: the platform lacks the capability for SMS alerts or phone calls. To address this, they demonstrate how to configure SMS alerts in a manner akin to enterprise tooling such as OpsGenie or PagerDuty.

Getting Started with Users in pgAdmin and Aiven

In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the process of creating users both on pgAdmin, a powerful GUI tool for managing PostgreSQL databases, and the Aiven platform. User management is an essential aspect of database administration, and we'll show you how to add new users, define their roles and privileges, and configure authentication settings. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, this video provides a comprehensive guide to effectively create and manage users in your PostgreSQL environment.