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Effective Trace Instrumentation with Semantic Conventions

There’s plenty of literature on the mechanics of instrumenting code with OpenTelemetry and delivering it to Honeycomb. However, I’ve not found many guides on the craft of instrumenting code in order to have a good observability experience in your system. A lot of focus is placed on automatic instrumentation—which is great, particularly if you’re new to observability or retrofitting—but it misses the power of good instrumentation at the application level.

The alert fatigue dilemma: A call for change in how we manage on-call

Once the unsung heroes of the digital realm, engineers are now caught in a cycle of perpetual interruptions thanks to alerting systems that haven't kept pace with evolving needs. A constant stream of notifications has turned on-call duty into a source of frustration, stress, and poor work-life balance. In 2021, 83% percent of software engineers surveyed reported feelings of burnout from high workloads, inefficient processes, and unclear goals and targets.

EMA explores Elastic AI Assistant for Security

Spoiler alert: it’s great! Elastic Security has been making waves among busy security analysts everywhere with the launch of Elastic AI Assistant. Whether it’s synthesizing alert details and suggesting next steps, or the recent addition from Elastic 8.11 to generate ES|QL queries from natural language, there’s a lot to love about Elastic AI Assistant for security efforts.

5 Reasons Why GitKraken Client is the Ultimate Tool for GitHub Users

GitHub is the industry standard for version control and collaboration. It’s reliable, it’s robust, and it gets the job done. But here’s the thing: industry standard doesn’t automatically translate to gold standard. So how do today’s top devs elevate their GitHub experience from good to great? They pair it with GitKraken Client. Below are the top five reasons why GitKraken Client is a game-changer for GitHub users.

The Story of Grafana | Episode 3: Open (Source) for Business | Grafana Documentary

In 2014, Grafana Labs (formerly known as Raintank) was founded with one mission in mind: To build a sustainable business around the popular open source Grafana project and use the revenue from our commercial offerings to re-invest in the technology.

How to do continuous profiling right with Grafana Pyroscope's Ryan Perry (Grafana Office Hours #26)

Ryan Perry, co-founder of Grafana Pyroscope, talks to us about how to do continuous profiling right. Ryan is also an Engineering Director at Grafana Labs, and he discusses the main concerns in continuous profiling and how to avoid those pitfalls. Pyroscope is an open-source project for aggregating continuous profiling data about your system's resources. He is joined by Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh.

Experience Omni Dev with CodeZero with Narayan Sainaney - Navigate Europe 23

Join Narayan Sainaney, co-founder and CTO of Codezero, as he unveils the groundbreaking concept of Omni-development on Kubernetes. Explore the challenges developers face with microservices and how Codezero's solution streamlines the development process, reducing complexity and enhancing productivity. Watch as Narayan demonstrates the practical application of this novel approach and discusses its impact on the future of software development.