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Full Circle: From Puppet to Google and Back Again

Deepak and Kelsey have a long history in a shared industry — they both worked at Puppet when it was still called Puppet Labs, and collaborated on some of the most exciting projects that made Puppet what it is today. Join Deepak and Kelsey for a fireside chat during which they’ll discuss the evolution of configuration management and automation, how their careers have overlapped and diverged, and what they envision for the future of cloud and ops.

Don't let compliance & security haunt you: What to expect in an audit

It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month, and many IT professionals are being haunted by the thought of gearing up for a security and compliance audit. Preparing for an IT audit can take months of planning. It can be time-consuming, uncomfortable, and stressful. Guess what else takes a long time and can be uncomfortable and stressful? Creating a human!

Using Netdata's alerts smartboard for monitoring systems' health and performance

The alerts smartboard gives you high-level information for every node you are monitoring with Netdata Cloud. In this video, you will learn how to navigate through the alerts smartboard as well as what each alert means. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

Introducing Test Insights with flaky test detection

The CircleCI Insights dashboard was designed to help you improve your delivery efficiency. We launched the dashboard a year ago to provide teams with actionable data for optimizing your pipelines. Since then, we’ve been listening to your feedback. By far, the most requested functionality is the ability to gain further visibility into test performance.

How to use Netdata Cloud for infrastructure observability

In this video, we cover how Netdata Cloud provides scalable infrastructure monitoring for any number of distributed nodes running the Netdata Agent. Monitor any system in your infrastructure including physical or virtual machines (VM), containers, cloud deployments, or edge / IoT devices. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

Learn how to build interactive dashboards with Netdata Cloud for troubleshooting systems

This video will show you how to build new dashboards with key metrics from any number of distributed systems in one place for a bird's eye view of your infrastructure. Create more meaningful visualizations for troubleshooting or keep a watchful eye on your infrastructure's most meaningful metrics without moving from node to node. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

How to monitor Docker containers using Netdata health and performance

Learn how to connect and claim a Docker node to start monitoring with Netdata in minutes. See information like system CPU, available memory, disk usage, total network bandwidth, and much more. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

Install Netdata to get started monitoring Linux in minutes

Install Netdata to monitor your Linux servers using our one-line installer. Install on physical, virtual, container, and IoT nodes. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

Differences between Site Reliability Engineer Vs. Software Engineer Vs. Cloud Engineer Vs. DevOps Engineer

The evolution of Software Engineering over the last decade has lead to the emergence of numerous job roles. So how different is a Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer and a Cloud Engineer from each other? In this blog, we drill down and compare the differences between these roles and their functions.

How We Use Sloth to do SLO Monitoring and Alerting with Prometheus

One of the most challenging tasks for Site Reliability Engineers is to align the reliability of the systems with the business goals. There is a constant battle between delivering more features—which increases the product’s value—and keeping the system reliable and maintainable. A significant ally to achieve both objectives is the Service Level Objective Framework.