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The arrival of Docker container technology brought with it an amazing array of capabilities. By encapsulating an entire software package, including its dependencies and libraries, into a single, portable container, Docker has made deployment across platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Apache a simple and straightforward process. When people talk about Docker, they probably talk about Docker Engine, the runtime that allows you to build and run containers.

Digital transformation is accelerating across organizations of all sizes around the world, and a survey by Mckinsey reveals COVID-19 accelerated the speed of adoption of digital technologies by several years.

Performance monitoring has become increasingly important for operations teams in today’s rapidly changing digital landscape. The DORA metrics are essential tools used to measure the performance of a DevOps team and ensure that all members work efficiently and collaboratively toward their goals. Here, we’ll explore what exactly DORA metrics are, how they work, and why companies should be paying attention to them if they want to set up an effective DevOps environment.

We will focus on the audit logging of Google cloud itself, however, the input supports the below sources when it refers to Google Cloud Logs.

At the beginning of every successful data exploration journey, a query is constructed. So, with this latest Grafana release, we are proud to introduce several new features aimed at improving the Grafana Loki querying experience. From query expression validation to seeing the query history in code editor and more, these updates are sure to make querying in Grafana even more efficient and intuitive, saving you time and frustration.

Imagine that a critical incident — a major outage, cyberattack or disaster — occurs out of nowhere in your company. In such a case, you'll try to minimize the damage and get back to normal operations as quickly as possible. But how will you do that? You've no idea how to manage such incidents. This is where incident commanders come in. They're trained professionals who lead the response to critical incidents.

This is part two of a three-part blog series on Observability—the challenges and the solutions.