Everybody uses third-party code. It saves time and money, increases agility, and lets you leverage the domain expertise of developers outside your company. But how do you monitor it?

A chasm remains between IT experts who live and breathe DevOps, and FinServ firms that struggle to embrace digital transformation. But by adopting pragmatic solutions, FinServ can make DevOps work.

Among other terms under the umbrella concept of cloud computing, we can find the Serverless technology which we have witnessed its growing popularity in the last three years. In principle, the cloud computing concept covers three levels of service: IaaS, Paas and SaaS.

Last week the “beta” tag officially came off of Checkly ! I bumped into many things in the period between launching a private beta and hammering down on all features and ripping the beta notice of the nav.navbar. In this post, I tried to funnel a bunch of these learnings into a somewhat logical order, as they felled like hoops I had to jump through to get to the next hoop.

Not all problems or issues in web development can be detected during development or testing. There are even web application errors that are hard to catch like runtime errors. Most PHP developers or server administrators will just look at the web server or database logs once an issue arises. They would just grep the logs for errors or timestamps in which the error occurred. This method of troubleshooting PHP problems requires a high technical skill and would take a long time to find the root cause.

This week we announced the dates for GrafanaCon LA and officially opened up the CFP! While we can’t predict the weather, we can be almost certain it will be blizzard-free this time around. Also, if you’re going to be in Munich next week for PromCon, please be sure and say hello!

OpManager helps enterprises monitor their network, devices, servers, firewall, and more. While all this helps keep your systems up and running at all times, effectively managing alerts is another challenge altogether. If you’re using a number of IT management tools, it can be hard to address issues like alert noise, inflexible on-call scheduling, and escalations.

You’ve just resolved an incident – congrats! High-fives and #HugOps all around.

At GrafanaCon EU in March, we had the pleasure of introducing one of Grafana Labs’ newest team members, Tom Wilkie, who joined as VP, Product with the acquisition of Kausal. And he came bearing gifts: his popular talk about the RED Method of monitoring microservices, which he created in 2015.

Announcing the following integrations: Kapacitor, Blue Matador, Instana, Zapier, BigPanda, ManageEngine