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Automate Troubleshooting of Applications Running on Kubernetes

StackState is an out-of-the-box solution to observe your entire Kubernetes stack, identify problems, automatically highlight the changes that cause them and provide the full context you need for efficient and effective troubleshooting. Our clear and affordable pricing makes it easy to get started today.

Announcing issue-initiated Change Lead Time

Sleuth is pleased to announce a new option to start your Change Lead Time clock based on state transitions in your issue tracker! In our ongoing effort to meet customers where they are, we heard from many of you that you’d like Sleuth to account for and provide visibility into your pre-commit coding time. We’re pleased to offer this this new option to tell Sleuth which specific state transitions in your issue tracker should start your Change Lead Time clock!

Share secrets with standalone projects with project context restrictions

Introducing project context restrictions for GitLab organizations. This feature enables project-based restrictions on contexts for standalone projects that are not tied to a VCS. Standalone projects are available at this time only with a GitLab integration with CircleCI. In this blog post, we hope to explain the value of this feature and how it can be used to further secure your workflows.

Comprehensive Guide on Partitioning and Sharding in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

One of the biggest mistakes I’ve had to repeatedly help companies fix has been poor partitioning design. I’ve seen many database architectures designed in an attempt to make queries faster. While faster queries can be a product of implementing partitioning correctly for a given design, I’ve often seen query response times get much slower from implementing partitioning incorrectly for the database design.

How to build an EKS kubernetes cluster with Ubuntu 20.04 on FIPS mode

Many clients have specific requirements for running their EKS Kubernetes clusters with Ubuntu: OS alignment across platforms, sysadmin knowledge or specific kernel features such Real Time Kernel or FIPS mode. If your workloads need to run on FIPS mode for compliance, you will not only need to create your containers on FIPS mode (in other words, with FIPS certified crypto libraries) but also, since containers share kernel with host/worker nodes, you need to have also the worker node's kernel running on FIPS mode.

Collect traces, logs, and custom metrics from your Google Cloud Run services with Datadog

Google Cloud Run is a managed platform for the deployment, management, and scaling of workloads using serverless containers. You can deploy workloads in the cloud or, using Cloud Run for Anthos, on your on-prem infrastructure.

New reports stress the importance of strategic incident management practice

Engineers have been managing incidents for as long as they’ve been building software, but the idea of incident management as a strategic practice in its own right is still finding its place. We’re starting to see big shifts in that area, though — more companies are dedicating headcount, resources, and tools to help them better prepare for, respond to, and learn from their incidents.

Why is Open Source Important to Enterprise IT Leaders?

A recent global survey demonstrates the importance of open source tools and technologies to IT professionals and their organizations. In Foundry’s MarketPulse Survey for SUSE, 2022, more than 600 IT professionals from enterprises around the world shared their experience and opinions on cloud native technology and open source. The results? Sixty-three percent of those surveyed said it was highly important for their organizations to choose open source tools and technologies.

How to filter metrics by label?

It is sometimes easy to get lost in the mountain of metrics and infinite number of dimensions when working with an infrastructure monitoring tool. Being able to filter metrics by label and visualize only what is relevant to the current scope of monitoring & troubleshooting, becomes absolutely crucial to the success of SREs, Sysadmins and DevOps professionals.