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Alerts Should Work for You, Not the Other Way Around

The entire reason we have monitoring is to understand what users are experiencing with an application. Full stop. If the user experience is impacted, sound the alarm and get people out of bed if necessary. All the other telemetry can be used to understand the details of the impact. But lower-level data points no longer have to be the trigger point for alerts.

Dashboarding Azure Monitor SCOM MI in SquaredUp

Big news! Microsoft have just dropped Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance (SCOM MI), their cloud-based alternative to SCOM. It’s fully Microsoft managed, and so it promises to take the headache out of deploying, scaling, and managing your SCOM Management Groups. Read Microsoft’s announcement blog to learn all about it.

Deploy a Node app on AWS EC2 Linux

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a vast ecosystem of products that make DevOps an absolute dream. Products like AWS Elastic Beanstalk have ready-made services for autoscaling, deployment, and logging (to name a few). However, teams may prefer to take a barebones approach and build incrementally - in which case AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) would be the preferred option.

Batch comments in Bitbucket Cloud code review | Bitbucket Cloud demos | Atlassian

Whether you're a pull request (PR) author or reviewer, you can use this feature to streamline your communication with other PR participants. During code review, you can draft comments and publish all together when you’re done with your review. Participants are notified of all comments in a single email notification.

From Data Deluge to Strategic Advantage: Cribl and Elastic Chart the Future of Flexible Data Management and Operationalization

In an era where industry standards are as dynamic as the data they govern, Cribl’s core value of putting ‘Customers First, Always’ drives us to stay ahead of the curve. It’s with immense pride and excitement that we announce our strategic partnership with Elastic. This alliance isn’t just a meeting of minds; it’s a bold stride towards a future where flexibility in data management isn’t just a luxury – it’s the standard.

Unlocking Open Telemetry for Golang

Open Telemetry (OTel) is an open source observability framework that has garnered significant attention for its powerful capabilities in monitoring metrics, logs and traces.. It is second only to Kubernetes in the CNCF velocity chart with contributions being made from major players in the cloud industry, and has a growing community helping build out a thriving ecosystem.

What is DevOps? Grafana for Beginners Ep.2

As a beginner in DevOps, you probably have come across multiple definitions of DevOps and countless things that fall under the DevOps umbrella. So you have a basic idea of what DevOps is but are you able to explain it to another newbie like yourself? Join Lisa Jung, a senior developer advocate at Grafana, to learn about DevOps in the simplest terms possible. Subscribe to the Grafana for Beginners series to delve deeper into concepts like observability, DevOps, and how Grafana can be used to observe your system as a part of your DevOps Practice!

10 Practical Machine Learning Use Cases in Observability - Navigate Europe 23

Dive into the world of machine learning and its practical applications in observability with Andrew Maguire from Netdata. Explore a variety of use cases, challenges, and considerations in implementing ML for enhanced monitoring and analytics. Learn about the potential benefits and the importance of human oversight in this insightful presentation.

Kubernetes Security Challenges with Armo - Insights from KubeCon NA 2023 - Civo TV

Ben from Armo and a key maintainer of the Kubescape project shares expert advice on securing Kubernetes in multicloud environments. Dive deep into the challenges and solutions for Kubernetes security, as Ben offers practical tips and strategies.