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Blocking deployments with your IDP

Most Cortex customers begin their journey by populating their service and resource Catalogs, creating their first few Scorecards, and setting up any time-sensitive Initiatives. These features help bring visibility and accountability to internally developed software, revealing consistency issues and enabling teams to act quickly to resolve.

Automate development best practices across your toolchain | Sleuth Automations

Automate best practices across your toolchain with Sleuth Automations. Introducing our powerful automations framework and marketplace that allows software development teams to discover and implement best practice workflows with a single click. It's time to improve engineering efficiency even more rapidly, continuously and easily with automation. Give Sleuth a try and see how we empower software teams to build faster by making engineering efficiency easy to improve and measurable — in a way that both managers and developers love.

AWS KMS Use Cases, Features and Alternatives

A Key Management Service (KMS) is used to create and manage cryptographic keys and control their usage across various platforms and applications. If you are an AWS user, you must have heard of or used its managed Key Management Service called AWS KMS. This service allows users to manage keys across AWS services and hosted applications in a secure way.

Kubernetes Logging with Filebeat and Elasticsearch Part 1

This is the first post of a 2 part series where we will set up production-grade Kubernetes logging for applications deployed in the cluster and the cluster itself. We will be using Elasticsearch as the logging backend for this. The Elasticsearch setup will be extremely scalable and fault-tolerant. ‍

Kubernetes Logging with Filebeat and Elasticsearch Part 2

In this tutorial, we will learn about configuring Filebeat to run as a DaemonSet in our Kubernetes cluster in order to ship logs to the Elasticsearch backend. We are using Filebeat instead of FluentD or FluentBit because it is an extremely lightweight utility and has a first-class support for Kubernetes. It is best for production-level setups. This blog post is the second in a two-part series. The first post runs through the deployment architecture for the nodes and deploying Kibana and ES-HQ.

Can Your Racks Support NVIDIA DGX H100 Systems?

AI is booming. The AI market is projected to grow 37.3% annually from 2023 to 2030. With so many organizations adopting or considering AI applications, data centers need to be ready to support the new demand. However, without the right tools and data, it is difficult to understand if your existing facilities have the capacity to support systems like the “gold standard for AI infrastructure,” the NVIDIA DGX H100.

Graphite Monitoring Tool Tutorial

In this post, we will go through the process of configuring and installing Graphite on an Ubuntu machine. What is Graphite Monitoring? In short; Graphite stores, collects, and visualizes time-series data in real time. It provides operations teams with instrumentation, allowing for visibility on varying levels of granularity concerning the behavior and mannerisms of the system. This leads to error detection, resolution, and continuous improvement. Graphite is composed of the following components.