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Service Level Objectives -- Customer Brown Bag -- May 29th, 2025

Jun 2, 2025 By Sumo Logic, Inc. In Sumo Logic
This technical session on Service Level Objectives (SLOs) will cover the fundamentals of SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs, along with how to define, monitor, and optimize them for system reliability. Through hands-on demonstrations, you'll learn to set up SLOs in Sumo Logic, track performance using logs, metrics, and tracing, and configure proactive alerts for incident response. By the end, you’ll have the skills to implement and manage SLOs effectively, ensuring your services meet reliability goals while balancing performance and cost.
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signoz

Monitoring Backstage with OpenTelemetry:Closing the observability blind spot

Jun 2, 2025 By Elizabeth Mathew In SigNoz
‘One small step for a man, but a huge leap for developers’ — me, when I realised how to observe my Backstage with OpenTelemetry. Backstage is often the “portal” through which we manage all our other systems, but who watches the watcher? Recently, we gave a KubeCon Talk, highlighting that monitoring Backstage itself is critical. When Backstage isn’t observable, it becomes a blind spot in your infrastructure.
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graylog

Sigma Specification 2.0: What You Need to Know

Jun 2, 2025 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
Sigma rules have become the security team equivalent of LEGO bricks and systems. With LEGO, people can build whatever they can imagine by connecting different types of bricks. With Sigma Specification 2.0 rules, security teams can create vendor-agnostic detections without being limited by proprietary log formats. In response to the Sigma rules’ popularity, the team that built them updated them in August 2024, giving security teams new capabilities.
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grafana

Simple cloud cost management: Grafana Labs integrates open standard FOCUS specification for cloud billing data

Jun 2, 2025 By Rich Kreitz In Grafana
At Grafana Labs, we’ve always believed that observability should be open and accessible — that belief extends beyond metrics, logs, and traces to the costs associated with managing observability at scale. That’s why we’re excited to share that we’ve adopted the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification ( FOCUS), a community-driven, open standard for cloud billing data.
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icinga

Hybrid IT Infrastructure Management

Jun 2, 2025 By Blerim Sheqa In Icinga
Today’s IT environments are rarely confined to a single data center or a single cloud provider. Enterprises are embracing a mix of cloud platforms, virtual machines, and on-premises hardware to stay agile and competitive. This blended environment is known as hybrid IT infrastructure, and managing it effectively is key to keeping systems healthy, secure, and performing at their best.
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onlineornot

OnlineOrNot updates from May 2025

Jun 2, 2025 By Max Rozen In OnlineOrNot
As OnlineOrNot has grown, I've been building features quickly to get them into your hands as fast as possible. However, this meant I ended up with multiple versions of similar pages that looked and worked differently from each other. This month, I focused on putting systems in place to create a consistent experience across all parts of the dashboard, making everything look and feel unified.
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