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Key Prometheus concepts every Grafana user should know

Prometheus has become an essential technology in the world of monitoring and observability. I’ve been aware of its importance for some time, but as a performance engineer, my experience with Prometheus had been limited to using it to store some metrics and visualize them in Grafana. Being a Grafanista, I felt I should dig deeper into Prometheus, knowing it had much more to offer than just being a place to throw performance test results.

15 Network Automation Tools in 2024

Network automation has become a game-changer for businesses that rely on complex networks. By automating repetitive tasks, companies can improve their network efficiency, reduce human errors, and ultimately save time and costs. That's why network automation tools are becoming essential for companies that want to maintain their competitiveness.

Feature Friday #31: Seeing a data structure with storejson()

Ever need to visualize the data your working with? storejson() to the rescue! Let’s re-visit our example for sys.os_release from Feature Friday: Special variables: So, we saw the value of a single key, but if we don’t know what keys are available it can be useful to render the JSON representation. The with attribute in combination with storejson() provides a convenient way to visualize the JSON representation of structured data in CFEngine.

Best Practices for Client-Side Logging and Error Handling in React

Logging is an essential part of development. While working on React projects, logging provides a way to get feedback and information about what’s happening within the running code. However, once an app or website is deployed into production, the default console provides no way to continue benefiting from logs.

How Device Management Companies Can Simplify Monitoring

Many companies that provide IoT or device management solutions need help building an in-house monitoring solution. Managing devices for your clients is challenging enough—building a monitoring system is not everyone's wheelhouse and takes time to set up. In this article, we will review some of the most common use cases for device management companies and discuss how these businesses can use MetricFire to save time and money on their monitoring.

What is a SEV1 incident? Understanding critical impact and how to respond

In the world of incident management, a SEV1 incident is something of lore: you’ve either heard the tales of the critical outages that result in widespread disruption and chaos, or you’ve lived through one (and lived to tell the tale). SEV1 incidents are a game-changer. When one hits—think major outages or critical failures—it can seriously impact a business, leading to lost revenue, unhappy customers, and a whole lot of chaos.

Project Coordination Strategies for Modern Businesses

Effective project coordination is the backbone of successful business operations. Whether you're managing small tasks or large, complex projects, keeping everything organized is key to achieving your goals. As businesses grow and teams become more distributed, having clear strategies and tools to streamline the coordination of projects becomes even more important. In this article, we will explore several strategies that modern businesses can use to improve project coordination, enhance teamwork, and leverage the benefits of project coordination software.

10 Mac Settings to Help You Work Smarter in 2024

Once in a while, you're bound to upgrade your MacBook to a new model or even change a few specs to make it more productive. During this time, you'll change many settings on the device to improve the macOS experience. There could be a few tweaks for a more personalized user experience or significant changes that make your Mac faster and much better. Apple designed MacBooks to allow you to make changes that improve the performance of your device. This comes with plenty of hidden features and settings in MacOS that you might not know about.