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Complexity Can Be Chaos

Monitoring is integral to understanding what is happening in your infrastructure, applications, or other observability projects. However, a common predicament developers can land themselves in is their observability stack becoming unwieldy and unmanageable due to a lack of streamlining and/or over-complicated code. To simplify your workload, it is important to streamline your monitoring.

Putting Your Data to Work to Protect Your Software Supply Chain Final

In today’s complex software ecosystem, ensuring security and reliability is more challenging than ever. Dependency trees are growing deeper, third-party contributions are increasing, and the risks - from vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to malicious attacks - are at an all-time high. Organizations must find ways to secure their software supply chains without compromising agility.

7 Snowflake Alternatives To Cut Your Cloud Costs

The Snowflake data cloud provides storage, reporting, and analytics for organizations that rely on data to run their day-to-day operations. Since its launch from stealth mode in 2014, Snowflake has become a top data warehouse solution for its manageability, superior scalability, always-on data security, advanced analytics, and robust accessibility. But Snowflake isn’t perfect.

EC2 Monitoring: A Practical Guide for AWS Engineers

Monitoring your EC2 instances shouldn’t be complicated or exhausting. Yet, too often, engineers find themselves troubleshooting issues in the middle of the night, searching for the root cause of an unexpected failure. Whether you're managing a few instances or hundreds spread across multiple regions, effective EC2 monitoring helps you stay ahead of problems instead of constantly reacting to them. And if you've ever dealt with a critical alert at an inconvenient hour, you know how important that is.

Nginx Error Logs: Troubleshooting and Security Guide

Nginx error logs can be tough to decipher, even for experienced sysadmins and DevOps engineers. They hold valuable clues about what’s going wrong, but sorting through them can feel overwhelming. Understanding these logs doesn’t have to be a challenge. This guide breaks them down in a clear, practical way—so you can find the issues that matter and fix them with confidence.

How to Use journalctl --last to Check Recent System Logs

When your Linux server starts acting up at 3 AM, you don't need a philosophy lesson—you need answers. Fast. That's where journalctl last comes in, the command-line equivalent of having a time machine for your system's events. If you've been piecing together log information like some digital detective with a cork board and string, it's time to upgrade your toolkit. Let's cut through the noise and get you the intel you need, when you need it.

How to debug an Android application using Anbox Cloud?

In this video, the Anbox team demonstrates how to debug an Android application with Android studio in Anbox Cloud. What is Anbox Cloud? Anbox Cloud lets you run virtualized Android environments securely, at any scale, to any device letting you focus on your use case. Run Android in system containers, not emulators, on AWS, OCI, Azure, GCP or your private cloud with ultra low streaming latency. Trademark notice Android is a trademark of Google LLC. Anbox Cloud uses assets available through the Android Open Source Project.

Why engineering teams are moving from PagerDuty to incident.io On-Call

Recently, we hosted a webinar on migrating from PagerDuty, where we explored why so many engineering teams are rethinking their on-call tools. This blog post is based on that conversation, diving into the frustrations teams face with PagerDuty and how incident.io On-Call offers a better way forward.

Signals Turns One! A Year of Growth and Innovation

A year ago, we launched Signals with a simple but powerful idea: on-call shouldn’t be a painful juggling act. Too often, teams had to bounce between separate alerting and incident response tools, slowing everything down when speed mattered most. And traditional on-call tools? They were built around services, not the people responding to them.