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The Advent of Monitoring, Day 10: Better Observability Into Your Local Clickhouse Instance With Grafana and Prometheus

Cloud-based database providers often provide great observability out of the box. But, what if you’re developing a tricky feature locally and need more details about what your local Clickhouse is doing? There are many options, but if you’re a numbers and graphs person like me, you’ll want to be able to view the inner workings of Clickhouse in something like Grafana.

AWS re:Invent Recap!

Cribl’s usual suspects, Ed Bailey and Jackie McGuire, are joined by Sr Partner Marketing Manager Michelle Zhang to discuss our experiences at AWS re:Invent this past November. It was a great event, and we want to share the top themes and presentations we saw at the show. Michelle will share her experience building and strengthening Cribl’s strategic alliance network and some of the "better together" progress made over the past year for customers.

AI microscopy with Grafana, Theia Scientific, and Volkov Labs (Grafana Office Hours #24)

What do you get when you combine AI microscopy with Grafana? Well, in this case, you get the Theiascope platform: an application for doing real-time analysis on microscopy images using a combination of Grafana, Prometheus, and PostgreSQL/Timescale. The Theiascope platform was a collaboration between Dr. Christopher Field, Co-Founder/President/ Principal Investigator at Theia Scientific and Mikhail Volkov, Founder/CEO of Volkov Labs. Christopher and Mikhail are joined by Developer Advocates Paul Balogh and Nicole van der Hoeven.

The Advent of Monitoring, Day 9: Advantages of Multi-Step API Checks vs Original API Checks

This is the ninth part of our 12-day Advent of Monitoring series. In this series, Checkly's engineers will share practical monitoring tips from their own experience. As a Checkly user, you’ve always had access to our two core check types: API and browser checks. API Checks are much cheaper, and therefore only run a curl-like request against the endpoint of your choice.

[Webinar] Mastering log monitoring: Strategies for enhanced application failure troubleshooting

Are you fed up with web server failures or slowness? Are you struggling with an overwhelming amount of log data to analyze? Comprehensive log analysis offers complete visibility into your infrastructure, resulting in effective troubleshooting. This webinar helps you learn proven log monitoring techniques to tackle application failures and keep your systems running smoothly. In this session, we'll discuss: Analyzing large volumes of log data to detect issues and determine their causes Practical examples from real-world cases to hone your troubleshooting skills.

What is SSH?

SSH stands for “Secure Shell.” It’s a network protocol used to securely access and manage devices and servers over an unsecured network. It provides an accurate form of authentication as well as encrypted communication between two systems, making it especially useful in environments where security is a concern. SSH is commonly used to access remote servers through a command line interface, but can also be used to securely transfer files (through SFTP or SCP).

What is the principle of least privilege (PoLP)?

The Principle of Least Privilege, also known as PoLP, is a computer security rule that states that each user or group of users must have only the necessary permissions to perform their corresponding tasks. In other words, the less power a user has, the lower the chances of them having a harmful impact on the business.

Monitor Docker With Telegraf and MetricFire

Monitoring your Docker environment is critical for ensuring optimal performance, security, and reliability of your containerized applications and infrastructure. It helps in maintaining a healthy and efficient environment while allowing for timely interventions and improvements. In general, monitoring any internal services or running process helps you track resource usage (CPU, memory, disk space), allowing for efficient allocation and optimization.

Fetch Waterfall in React

Have you seen this problem? Or maybe this one? You’ve most likely seen this: Hint: they’re all the same. The first image is Sentry’s Event Details page, the second is Chrome’s Network tab, and the code snippet is what causes it. If you can answer yes to any of these, then you need to keep reading. If not, you still need to keep reading, so your future self can thank you. This is called “fetch waterfall” and it’s a common data fetching issue in React.