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Maximize branding with custom HTML in status pages

Imagine checking a status page during a service disruption only to be greeted by a generic and impersonal display, devoid of any brand identity or relevant information. A status page without customization feels detached and fails to provide a good digital user experience. In addition, a status page that doesn't match your brand's look and feel can make the communication seem mundane.

'The Story of Grafana' documentary: From one developer's dream to 20 million users worldwide

On Dec. 5, 2013, Torkel Ödegaard made the first commit in GitHub for a personal project that would become Grafana. “It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Torkel launched Grafana, growing from a small man with a big dream to becoming the most popular data visualization software in the world,” says Grafana Labs co-founder and CEO Raj Dutt. “The Story of Grafana” chronicles that meteoric journey.

Latest Top 11 Log Monitoring Tools [Includes Open-Source]

For any software company, a log monitoring tool is a must for collecting, storing, and providing a centralized view of all logs from different applications and hosts for faster anomaly detection, incident resolution, and troubleshooting. They can also help detect security threats and provide audit trails. They are effective in capacity planning, decision-making, and ensuring optimized performance.

Software Maintenance Best Practices for 2024

Businesses rely on software solutions increasingly in our modern age, and it’s constantly evolving. Compared to some of the software being used in the early 2000s, we’ve seen large changes, resulting in more complex frameworks, which come with their own unique changes. As software and systems become more complex, so increases the probability of errors occurring and the level of jeopardy those errors might present.

Ensuring network reliability: A deep dive into OpManager's failover capabilities

Business continuity is a vital aspect of modern business operations. It is the ability to maintain essential business functions during and after unexpected disruptions or disasters. Downtime, in the context of business continuity, refers to periods when critical systems are unavailable. When such a catastrophe happens, the repercussions can be significant. For one, it can be costly—every moment of system unavailability can result in financial losses.

Livestream: Client side monitoring & metrics for Kafka using OpenTelemetry & SigNoz

In this livestream, we will walk through a demo of how to get client side insights from Kafka using distributed tracing. We will take a NodeJS producer and consumer setup communicating via Kafka to show how one can instrument this with OpenTelemetry, and get metrics from a client perspective. We will also touch on getting Kafka metrics using OpenTelemetry receivers.

This Month in Datadog: Dynamic Instrumentation, Log Pipeline Scanner, Network Device map, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. This month, we put the Spotlight on Dynamic Instrumentation..

Datadog on Kubernetes Autoscaling

Datadog, the observability platform used by thousands of companies, runs on dozens of self-managed Kubernetes clusters in a multi-cloud environment, adding up to tens of thousands of nodes, or hundreds of thousands of pods. Also, this infrastructure is used by a wide variety of engineering teams at Datadog, with different features and capacity needs that may also change overtime.

Introducing Grafana 10.3

Grafana 10.3 is here! From improving your ability to create and navigate complex canvas panels to monitoring via anonymous access control, this release is all about enhancing efficiency and clarity in your observability journey. In this video, learn more about: Canvas Pan and Zoom Improved Tooltips Metric Analysis Alerting enhancements Multi-stack data sources Anonymous access control Stay with us through this playlist to delve deeper into each addition and maximize your Grafana 10.3 experience.