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Configuring Azure Logic App Failure Alerts To Stay Ahead

Azure Logic Apps is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft Azure that allows users to create and run automated workflows. A trigger is the first step of a workflow that specifies the condition for running further steps in that workflow. Azure Logic Apps creates a workflow run each time the trigger fires successfully. The details of each run, including the status, inputs, and outputs of each step of the workflow instance, can be accessed in the run history section of the Logic App.

Software Teams: You Could Be Getting More from DORA Metrics

Software teams: You could be getting more from DORA metrics. The metrics are great for measuring software delivery, but they lack context for how to improve software development. Sleuth’s new Goals feature helps DevOps teams create and own goals that matter the most to them, enabling a bottom-up approach to software engineering improvement. 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.

Manually Trigger Preview Environments with Create On Demand Feature

At Qovery, we strive to continuously improve our product to meet the ever-evolving needs of our users, making it more convenient and functional. We're proud to announce a groundbreaking update to our Preview Environment feature that we believe will transform the way engineering teams test their features. Buckle up for a journey into a world where creating production-like environments becomes a breeze!

Monitor Azure Pipelines with Datadog CI Visibility

End-to-end visibility into pipelines is crucial for ensuring the health and performance of your CI system, especially at scale. Within extensive CI systems—which operate under the strain of numerous developers simultaneously pushing commits—even the slightest performance regression or uptick in failure rates can compound rapidly and have tremendous repercussions, causing major cost overruns and impeding release velocity across organizations.

Setting up continuous integration with CircleCI and GitLab

CircleCI supports GitLab as a version control system (VCS). In this tutorial you will learn how to set up your first CircleCI CI/CD pipeline for a project hosted on GitLab. As GitLab can be used either as a SaaS tool, as well as self-managed on-premise installation, I will cover the steps to connect it with CircleCI for both.

Top 10 Open-Source Monitoring Tools for Modern DevOps Teams in 2023

In 2023, monitoring is essential to modern DevOps teams' work. DevOps teams need reliable and flexible tools to effectively monitor and manage complex systems that can provide real-time insights into system performance, availability, and security. Open-source monitoring tools have become increasingly popular due to their cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and community support.

From logs to insights: Using Firewall Analyzer to monitor Squid proxy activity

Squid proxies are among the most popular open-source proxy servers preferred by companies across the globe to keep their networks safe and boost performance. Since Squid proxy’s release in 1996, companies have preferred it for its high-performance proxying, forwarding, and caching functions. Squid proxy logs contain information about the HTTP traffic passing through a server. This includes the source IP, destination IP, time of the request, and accessed URL.

Azure Service Principals: The Ultimate Guide

Azure Service Principals are a crucial aspect of managing your Azure resources. They provide a secure and efficient way to manage your resources, without the need for human intervention. In this article, we will explore what Azure Service Principals are, how they work, and why they are important. As you may already know, Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows you to host, deploy and manage your applications and services.