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Like all programming, scripting is a way of providing instructions to a computer so you can tell it what to do and when to do it. Programs can be designed to be interacted with manually by a user (by clicking buttons in the GUI or entering commands via the command prompt) or programmatically using other programs (or a mixture of both).
While automating systems is seen as an imperative in boardrooms around the globe, automation teams — the teams on the ground — often lack the data to help them to industrialize their automation efforts and move from ad-hoc automation to strategic automation. In this automation-focused blog post, we will show how to instrument infrastructure automation with Elastic Observability.
The promise of OpenTelemetry is that it can help you avoid vendor lock-in by allowing you to instrument your applications once, then send that data to any backend of your choice. This post shows you exactly how to do that with code samples that configure your application to send telemetry data to both Honeycomb and New Relic.
In any organization, the IT operations teams bear the responsibility of providing reliable cloud services to users that are increasingly distributed, working from home, the office, or elsewhere. As a result, IT professionals are looking for solutions to achieve visibility of the user’s network from end to end to quickly identify and resolve bottlenecks and ensure maximum productivity and ROI of their cloud applications.
In today’s world, there’s no lack of monitoring data. In fact, the amount of data DevOps and SRE teams are dealing with on a daily basis can be confusing and overwhelming. Often, the problem is threefold.
A monolithic architecture is one of the oldest architectures used for making software and applications for various companies. In layman's terms, Monolith means everything in a single box. Monolithic software is supposed to be self-contained, and its components are interrelated and interdependent. When it comes to monoliths, updating a single component or rolling out a new feature is difficult. Suppose any program component needs an update.
A public status page conveys your service's health and availability to your internal and external users—fostering transparency and trust. We've launched a new status pages feature, adding support for custom domains and branding!
A summary is a metric type in Prometheus that can be used to monitor latencies (or other distributions like request sizes). For example, when you monitor a REST endpoint you can use a summary and configure it to provide the 95th percentile of the latency. If that percentile is 120ms that means that 95% of the calls were faster than 120ms, and 5% were slower. Summary metrics are implemented in the Prometheus client libraries, like client_golang or client_java.
