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Collecting and Visualizing Metrics in Puppet Enterprise

This walkthrough covers how to enable and leverage metrics collection in Puppet Enterprise for monitoring and troubleshooting your Puppet infrastructure. Presented by Barr Iserloth and Tony Green learn how to activate metrics logging, integrate with visualization tools like Grafana, and diagnose Puppet Server, PuppetDB, and system-level behaviors with real-time observability.

Rancher Live: What is Developer Advocacy?

Join us for an engaging Rancher live stream hosted by Orlin Vasilev, as we dive into the world of Developer Advocacy—what it really means, why it matters, and how it's evolving in the cloud-native space. Orlin will be joined by two powerhouse guests in the field: Jorge Castro – a community strategist and long-time open source advocate, known for his work with Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystems. Jorge brings deep insights from years of building developer communities and bridging the gap between engineers and users.

The Second Wave of Private Cloud

Over the past decade, the public cloud became the default way to run software. Its flexibility, on-demand pricing, and global reach made it the obvious choice for many teams. Startups could move fast, and enterprises could avoid long procurement cycles and complex hardware management. As teams gain more experience with cloud infrastructure, unintended consequences start to rear their costly heads. Bills grow quickly and are difficult to predict.

Netdata Overview: All You Need to Know in Under 3 Minutes

In just a few minutes, this walkthrough will show you how to unlock the full power of Netdata during your trial period. From real-time metrics to AI-powered insights, learn how to get immediate value without any guesswork. Whether you're running a Homelab or managing production systems at scale, this video will help you hit the ground running and make every minute of your trial count. Let’s turn your trial into insight, clarity, and control.

Factors That Define a Scalable Reseller Hosting Plan

Many entrepreneurs are drawn to reseller hosting as an accessible and profitable business model. As you explore various options, it's important to understand the factors that contribute to a scalable reseller hosting plan. A plan that supports growth must include key elements like performance, flexibility, price, and support. Let's break down these crucial aspects in more detail.

Smarter Insights and Pipeline Control - New in DataStream

We’re constantly improving DataStream to make security data management simpler, smarter, and more efficient for modern SOCs. This latest update introduces new capabilities that bring even more visibility and flexibility to your telemetry pipelines. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new.

New in OTel: Auto-Instrument Your Apps with the OTel Injector

As distributed systems scale, maintaining manual instrumentation across services quickly becomes unsustainable. The OTel Injector addresses this by automatically attaching OpenTelemetry instrumentation to applications, no code changes needed. This blog covers how the OTel Injector works, how it integrates with Linux environments, and how to set it up for consistent telemetry across your stack.

Why Your Loki Metrics Are Disappearing (And How to Fix It)

Grafana Loki is up and running, log ingestion looks healthy, and dashboards are rendering without issues. But when you query logs from a few weeks ago, the data's missing. This is a recurring problem for many teams using Loki in production: while the system handles short-term log visibility well, it often lacks the retention guarantees developers expect for historical analysis and incident review.