The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
It’s soon two years since I’ve introduced you to Icinga L10n. There I’ve talked about a place on-line to ease collaboration. So, without further ado, let me introduce you to translate.icinga.com! We’re using Weblate on there and hope that interested users may already be familiar with it. The basic tools are easy to grasp though. And even if not, it has an extensive user documentation.
This blog post is part 2 of our Monitoring Microsoft Azure Active Directory series. Managing Identity is a big challenge in a cloud environment, especially when users can potentially log in from anywhere. Additionally, users can often use different types of devices to log in and access cloud-hosted resources. Without a central Authentication and Authorization source, it is very difficult to manage who can login to what and who can do what with a cloud resource.
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Grafana OnCall on Grafana Cloud for all paid and free plans. A big part of delivering great software is ensuring the right people get the right information when the inevitable incidents occur. We want to help you do that with Grafana OnCall, an easy-to-use, developer-first on-call management tool that’s built on top of the Grafana stack you know and love.
OpenTelemetry is enabling a revolution in how Observability data is collected and transmitted. See our What Is OpenTelemetry post on why this is an important inflection point in the Observability space. In this post, we’ll walk through how to configure the OpenTelemetry Gems within a Rails app.
Before we talk about OpenTelemetry, we should talk about telemetry. Telemetry is: And an instrument is: For the purpose of measuring running computer software and systems, our instruments are virtual instruments. That is to say, code that measures other code. It sounds simple: read a measurement and send it to a remote location. In practice, to make that telemetry data useful in today’s cloud-native and ever more complex environments, there are huge logistical and technical hurdles to overcome.
