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Driving Value from Puppet Metrics: Puppet Observability Data Connector

The Puppet Observability Data Connector is a premium Forge module included with Puppet Enterprise Advanced (PEA). This module provides a deeper dive into your Puppet agent reports. Visualizing these metrics gives you a great way to identify what is healthy and unhealthy in your environment.

Ubuntu Server: a platform made for enterprise scale

A platform is an environment that allows software to run smoothly across the infrastructure, runtime, and application layers. The key word there is “smoothly”: a good platform connects those layers so well that you don’t notice it. That’s what Ubuntu Server has become: the essential layer between bare metal and the apps running on top, continuously optimized across resource management, networking, and security. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS represents over 12 years of that work coming together.

How to scale access control in Grafana Cloud

One of the primary reasons organizations adopt Grafana Cloud is to create a single pane of glass across the data they collect from self-hosted systems, cloud providers, and third-party platforms. Bringing those signals together enables richer correlations, reduces tool sprawl, and makes it easier for teams to understand what's happening across their environment. But as observability grows and becomes more centralized, access management becomes more important.

How to Choose a Secure and Reliable IPTV Service for Your Home Network in 2026

The way we consume television has changed beyond recognition. Millions of households across the UK have already ditched traditional satellite and cable subscriptions in favour of IPTV - Internet Protocol Television - and the numbers keep climbing. But as more devices connect to your home network, the question of security and reliability becomes just as important as channel count or picture quality. Choosing the wrong provider doesn't just mean buffering and dead streams; it can expose your network to unnecessary risk.

Importance of Practice Tests: Why Mocks Are the Key to Exam Success

Whether you are preparing for a job assessment, entrance exam, or competitive test, one thing toppers always do is practice. Studying theory is important, but without practice tests, it's hard to know if you're actually ready. A Practice Test is not just a mock exam. It's a tool that shows you where you stand, what to improve, and how to perform better on the real day.

What to Look for When Searching for Real Estate Support

Buying or selling a home is easier when the right real estate professional is involved. A good agent helps you understand the market, compare options, prepare offers, review risks, and make decisions with more confidence. The challenge is knowing who to trust when there are so many profiles, reviews, recommendations, and online tools available.
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Proactive error management: Collaborate effectively and work smarter with tags

Talking to many of our customers with different needs and use cases, one particular issue comes up all the time. When I'm seeing so many error groups in my app and so many error notifications in my inbox every day, it's easy to end up feeling overwhelmed. I want a more proactive system to alert me to which errors need attention and when, so that I can stop getting buried. Does this hit home? Then this article is written for you, the tech leads and the product managers who are on the front-line of issue prioritization.

From Prototype to Production With AWS AgentCore

"Hello world, this is your agent speaking!" The agent loop! The LLM is calling tools, the answers are sensible, and the sky's the limit. Now, as you look forward to production, you look for a composable toolset, something that can grow with your use case and system needs. That's what we created with Honeycomb Canvas: a collaborative investigation space where AI agents help you understand, fix, and learn about your system.

One SSL certificate on multiple servers

Every certificate renewal automation tool has to answer one architecture question before it does anything else: where does the private key get generated? A reader who used to be “the certificate guy” at his organization emailed me this week to ask about exactly that: It’s the right instinct. It’s also how most automation tools work. Certbot generates the key on the server, builds a certificate signing request, and the private key never leaves the machine.

ActiveMQ JVM Memory & GC Tuning: Heap Sizing, G1GC, ZGC Guide

The JVM is the runtime foundation of every ActiveMQ deployment. Message throughput, delivery latency, producer flow control triggers, OOM crashes, and GC-induced delivery pauses all trace back to JVM memory configuration. Yet ActiveMQ ships with a 512MB heap and no GC logging, appropriate for a developer laptop, not for an enterprise message broker handling millions of messages a day.