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Customizing your Azure DevOps DORA metrics dashboard

Looking to configure and customize a DORA metrics dashboard? Our Director of Engineering Services, Tim Wheeler, demonstrates how to customize the DORA Metrics dashboard in Azure DevOps for SquaredUp. He shows how to populate key metrics like deployment frequency and change failure rate by selecting a pipeline, specifically the Squared Up multi-stage pipeline.

Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies: How Mid-Size Organisations Can Reduce Cloud Infra Costs

Learn how mid-size companies can dramatically cut cloud infrastructure costs using practical strategies like compute rightsizing, serverless, storage tiering, and automated scaling. This guide also explores how Qovery simplifies and automates cost optimization for growing teams - no full DevOps team required.

HAProxyConf 2025 Recap

A lot can change in three years. The world of 2022 was a quite different place. Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving living monarch, the world population hadn’t yet cracked eight billion, and many of us were still emerging from the strangeness of the Covid years. Meanwhile, at HAProxyConf 2022, we unveiled HAProxy Fusion Control Plane for the first time.

How to Get Logs from Docker Containers

When a container misbehaves, logs are the first place to look. Whether you're debugging a crash, tracking API errors, or verifying app behavior—docker logs gives you direct access to what's happening inside. This blog covers the full workflow: how to retrieve logs, filter them by time or service, and set up logging for production environments.

Troubleshooting LangChain/LangGraph Traces: Common Issues and Fixes

We’ve covered how to get LangChain traces up and running. But even when everything’s instrumented, traces can still go missing, show up half-broken, or look nothing like what you expected. This guide is about what happens after setup, when traces exist, but something’s off.

Security is a leading priority for 2025

The Cloudsmith 2025 Artifact Management Report offers timely insights into how engineering and DevOps teams are evolving their approach to software artifact management and software supply chain security. With supply chain attacks on the rise and Generative AI reshaping development practices, teams are reevaluating how they manage, secure, and scale their artifact repository infrastructure.

How Replicas Work in Kubernetes

Replicas in Kubernetes control how many copies of your pods run simultaneously. They're the foundation of scaling, availability, and recovery in your cluster. When you're running a stateless API or a background worker, understanding how replicas work directly impacts your application's reliability and performance. This blog walks through replica management, from basic concepts to production monitoring patterns that help you maintain healthy, scalable applications.

See System Logs Alongside your Metrics Using Loki, Grafana, and Graphite

In this quick demo, we show how you can transform logs collected by Grafana Loki into actionable Graphite metrics using MetricFire. Watch as we convert structured logs into performance insights. Perfect for teams looking to bridge the gap between logging and monitoring. This workflow helps you move beyond basic log storage and turn raw logs into meaningful metrics for alerts, dashboards, and capacity planning.

Why we're talking to people about reliability

Reliability means a lot of things to a lot of people, but it’s also essential for every digital business. That’s why we’re talking to reliability experts from all over to find out what reliability means to them and how you can improve it. Transcript:  You know, we're all out here building and operating digital businesses and like nobody's talking about reliability enough. We gotta talk about it. I can't stop talking about it and I've been on call for like 20 years.