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Monthly Moo Update | October 2021

There’s a number of monitoring and observability solutions on the market today. It almost reminds me of the automobile market and the endless number of automobiles available. Sure, they all get you from point A to point B, in some way. But some automobiles do it faster, smoother, more efficiently, with guidance, more comfort, storage space, perhaps towing capability, and even autonomously. Moogsoft is the automobile you’ve been dreaming about in the monitoring and observability market.

FireHydrant expands Reliability Platform with Service Catalog

Today, we are happy to announce the launch of Service Catalog to help you better manage, query, and learn about the services that exist in your infrastructure. At FireHydrant, we envision a world where all software is reliable, and we’re on a mission to help every company that builds or operates software get closer to 100% reliability. Service Catalog helps you get closer to 100% reliability.

Canonical launches Ubuntu Frame, the foundation for embedded displays

Canonical’s Ubuntu Frame is an easy-to-use, reliable and secure fullscreen shell to power edge devices, with 10 years of support from Canonical. October 6th, 2021: Canonical announces the release of Ubuntu Frame, a solution that allows developers to easily build and deploy graphical applications for interactive kiosks, digital signage solutions, or any other products that require a graphical output.

What is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. It also encompasses a strategy and set of practices and principles across service offerings and is closely tied to DevOps and operations. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

5 things to look for in a third-party monitoring tool

A key finding from Redgate’s recent State of Database Monitoring Survey of over 2,500 IT professionals was that 79% of respondents reported using either a third-party or in-house monitoring tool. It’s notable because it’s an increase of 10 percentage points from the same survey last year – and the satisfaction rate with third-party monitoring tools also saw an increase of 18 percentage points to 86%.

Your lookback at Puppetize Digital 2021

Yet another Puppetize Digital is in the (online only) books. Our second annual virtual conference drew attendees from around the globe, bringing together the people at the center of automation. If you weren’t able to attend this year’s event live, worry not! You can watch the entire conference on-demand here. Read on for Puppetize highlights!