Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The lifeblood of any online business lies in its accessibility. When your site or application is accessible, your customers are happy, your brand reputation remains intact, and revenues keep flowing. Because of this, understanding and calculating uptime becomes crucial. Let’s face it: any downtime translates to lost revenue.

As distributed, interconnected microservices have replaced monolithic applications, application monitoring has had to evolve to support these modern, complex architectures. Rather than monitoring a single application and code base, organizations need to monitor the performance and network connectivity of multiple services that interact with each other.

Kubernetes or K8s is an open-source production-grade container orchestration system for automating, scaling, and managing containerized applications. A container is a lightweight, standalone, executable ready-to-run software package that contains everything needed to run an application. It includes the runtime, code, libraries, systems tools, and default values for any essential settings.

Our 1st blog in our series on securely consuming OSS. Today, I'll give an overview of some of the most common types of attacks from consuming OSS. Open-source software (OSS) fuels innovation. Over 96% of commercial applications rely on at least one OSS component (Synopsys, 2023). At Cloudsmith, we champion OSS and understand its indispensable role in today's software landscape. However, the escalating threat of supply chain attacks targeting OSS demands a robust defence.

This article coins the term “FDAP stack”, explains why we used it to build InfluxDB 3.0, and argues that it will enable and power a generation of analytics applications in the same way that the LAMP stack enabled and powered a generation of interactive websites (by the way we are hiring!).

Performance tests created with the Grafana k6 browser module use lab data collected from pre-defined environments, devices, and network settings. Lab data allows you to repeatedly reproduce performance results, making it useful for detecting and fixing performance issues early. Lab data, however, doesn’t account for one very important testing component: real user experience.

Logz.io is always growing and evolving based on customer usage and feedback. We add new features and quality of life improvements all the time. Here’s the round up of what we released in 2023 Q3.