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JFrog Platform Performance with Datadog Analytics

Faithful operation of your JFrog Platform can be best assured by tracking usage data of Artifactory and Xray. With insights gained through real-time observability and log analytics, you can boost the efficiency of your DevOps pipeline and keep your software releases running joyfully. Datadog is a SaaS-based data analytics platform that is a popularly used monitoring service for cloud-scale applications. It’s a data analysis platform that can be readily enabled for JFrog Platform monitoring through our integrations.

The DevOps Workflow

At the center of DevOps practices is automation and workflow - but what does that actually mean? In this episode of Dissecting DevOps, Dave and Chris talk about the ideal state of DevOps workflows, and why an iterative approach to DevOps processes is critical for the long term success of DevOps practices and principles. Dave McAllister and Chris Riley are DevOps Advocates at Splunk.

Netdata Agent v1.24: Prometheus/OpenMetrics collector and multi-host database mode

This release broadens our commitment to open standards, interoperability, and extensibility with a new generic Prometheus collector that works seamlessly with any application that makes its metrics available in the Prometheus/OpenMetrics exposition format, including support for Windows 10 via windows_exporter. Netdata will autodetect over 600 Prometheus endpoints and instantly generate charts with all the exposed metrics, meaningfully visualized.

Getting started with Cloud Monitoring

Want to know how to utilize Cloud Monitoring in Cloud Console? In this episode of Stack Doctor, Yuri Grinshteyn shows you how to set up a simple web service and instrument it for both service health and infrastructure monitoring. Watch to learn how you can navigate Cloud Monitoring’s new integration into Cloud Console and gain better observability of your applications and infrastructure.

Track deploys by environment with Sleuth's first-class environment support!

Quick, do you know what code is currently deployed to production? How about staging? How far apart are these environments? Sleuth tracks your deployments, and today, Sleuth is launching first-class environments support. I'm going to show you how it works, steps to take to migrate your existing projects, and where we plan to take it in the future.

The State of Robotics - July 2020

We know a lot of you are on vacation so we’ll keep this month’s State of Robotics edition short and sweet. Looking for an easy way to get familiar with ROS 2? We recently published a few helpers on how to simulate robots with turtlesim to help our readers get a rolling start on ROS2. For something that carries a little more punch, follow our tutorial on simulating a TurtleBot3.

Sleuth now tracks Environments with new first-class environment support!

Quick, do you know what code is currently deployed to production? How about staging? How far apart are these environments? Sleuth tracks your deployments, and today, Sleuth is launching first-class environments support. I'm going to show you how it works, steps to take to migrate your existing projects, and where we plan to take it in the future.