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Stream AWS Metrics to Grafana with Last9 in 10 minutes

It’s 2:47 AM and your Lambda functions are timing out. API response times are spiking. You’re flipping between the CloudWatch console, your APM tool, and your logs, trying to figure out what’s going wrong. CloudWatch has the metrics you need: CPU usage, memory pressure, and request rates — but connecting that data to what your app is doing takes time. The delay in stitching it all together slows down your incident response.

Being on-call at incident.io

At incident.io, we are building a product that our users rely on 24/7, all year round. This means it is crucial that it is always working, and that is where our on-call rotation comes in. We believe that everyone should be on-call because it tightens the feedback loop between shipping new features and maintaining what we have, leading to more pragmatic engineering decisions.

Release v2.6: MCP Server, AI Insights Enhancement, Okta SCIM Integration, SNMP Monitoring and more.

Netdata 2.6.0 is here and it’s our most intelligent release yet! This version brings AI-powered monitoring, easier network visibility, and smoother enterprise integrations, all designed to help you troubleshoot faster and scale smarter. What's New: Netdata Referral Program Every referred user will get a 10% discount when they subscribe to Netdata Business or Homelab - and you will receive 10% of their subscription value (up to a max of 1000$ per space). You can refer an unlimited number of users, so there's no real limit to how much you can earn with the referral program.

Let Git Find the Bug for You (No Guessing)

Somewhere in your commit history, a bug snuck in. You could scroll. Panic. Guess. Or — you could let Git find the exact commit that broke your code. In this episode of Wait… Git Can Do That?, we show you how git bisect binary-searches your history to isolate the problem — fast, clean, and testable. Use git bisect start, good, and bad Test each step to narrow it down Or automate it with git bisect run.

How to ensure your AWS workloads are resilient

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Cloud providers like AWS give you plenty of tools to make your workloads more resilient, but it’s up to you to apply them. However, considering how complex some of these tools are, where do you start? And how can you be sure your systems are more reliable as a result?

Why Branding Still Matters in the Age of DevOps and SaaS Automation

In a landscape dominated by automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability dashboards, branding can feel... secondary. After all, if your platform ships fast, scales reliably, and integrates with everything - why should anyone care what it looks or sounds like? The answer is simple: they do.

AirDroid Business for IT & MSPs Mastering Remote POS Device Management

In this video, we will explore how to efficiently manage POS devices and enhance operational efficiency. Our focus is on tackling common issues faced by IT service providers and MSPs, including device crashes, firmware issues, and the need for manual configurations. With AirDroid Business, you can remotely troubleshoot devices, distribute apps seamlessly, enforce device usage restrictions, and track device locations in real-time. Scalability is effortless—whether you manage 300 or 3,000 devices, we’ve got you covered!

Reliability isn't a metric, it's a mindset

As someone with Type 1 diabetes, reliability is a way of life for Nick Mason, Sr. Solutions Architect at Gremlin. Full transcript: Reliability isn't just a metric, to me, it's a mindset. As someone that works in site reliability engineering and also someone who lives with type one diabetes, the concept of reliability is deeply personal to me. In tech, reliability means building systems that are going to recover gracefully and in life with a chronic condition like diabetes, it's the same thing.

In The AI Era, The Winning Teams Track Cloud Unit Costs From Day 1

Everyone’s obsessed with speed right now. Ship fast. Stack features. Slap an LLM on it and call it v1. Amirite? But in the AI era, where cloud costs can spiral in a weekend, moving fast isn’t enough. The teams that track cloud unit costs from Day 1? They’re the ones who come out ahead. Most teams don’t start there though. They focus on building features and chasing traction, and the cloud bill just shows up like that subscription you forgot to cancel. Maybe someone glances at it.