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The Grafana community is one of the most vibrant in all of web development. And to celebrate the conclusion of GrafanCONline, the launch of Grafana 8 and Tempo 1.0, and so much more, we’re pleased to share this dashboard showcase. (And in case you missed any of the great sessions at GrafanaCONline, the videos are available on demand now!) Each of these 12 dashboards was built by our community, for our community.

President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order which made adhering to cybersecurity standards a legal requirement for federal departments and agencies. The move was not a surprise. It comes after a string of high-profile cyber-attacks and data breaches in 2020 and 2021. The frequency and scale of these events exposed a clear culture of lax cybersecurity practices throughout both the public and private sectors.

For those of us who need to get applications running in Kubernetes, having Kubernetes on the desktop is incredibly useful. When we want to focus on our applications, it’s especially useful when Kubernetes is easy to use. This is where Rancher Desktop comes in. Rancher Desktop provides easy-to-use Kubernetes and container management (something we’ll look at in a moment) for Mac and Windows. Having Kubernetes isn’t enough.

This is the fourth installment in a series of articles on Mattermost plugins. First, we talked about how to set up your developer environment. We then examined the structure of server-side and web app plugins before walking through how to build a server-side plugin in Mattermost. In this piece, we’ll explore how to create web app plugins. The web app is written in JavaScript. It uses Redux, and you can write your plugin in Typescript as well. In this article, we’ll use JavaScript.

This post is a brief overview on how the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer can be used to trap unintentional or error prone parts of a C program. We’re going to look at how it’s used on a desktop program, as well as a way to use it in small embedded programs!

The simplest way to manage and organize your Java dependencies is with a Maven or Gradle repository. You need reliable, secure, consistent and efficient access to your dependencies that are shared across your team, in a central location. Including a place to set up multiple registries, that work transparently with the Maven and Gradle clients.

Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly savvy and ransomware attacks have soared over the last decade. A recent PwC UK Cyber Threat Intelligence report revealed a spike in cybersecurity incidents which have significantly affected many organisations that are already dealing with challenges caused by the pandemic.

As organizations migrate to Elastic from incumbent vendors, quickly onboarding log data from their current solution into Elastic is one of the first orders of business. Data onboarding often involves having to adjust ingestion architecture and implement configuration changes across data sources. We want to ensure that users trialing or migrating to Elastic can get data in quickly to start seeing the power of Elastic solutions as quickly as possible.

Our Kibana team has been hard at work implementing and executing on a new Kibana strategic vision to streamline the dashboard creation process and sand down the rough edges of creating visualizations for dashboards. We accomplished our goal and reduced the overall time it takes users to go from a blank slate to a meaningful dashboard that conveys insights about the data.

How much is your company losing by reacting to problems after they’ve had a negative impact on your bottom line? How many customers churn in the time it takes you to notice complaints to your call center? Proactive business monitoring allows you to detect incidents before they have a negative impact on your company’s revenue and reputation.