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Kibana is the visualization layer of the ELK Stack — the world’s most popular log analysis platform which is comprised of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. This tutorial will guide you through some of the basic steps for getting started with Kibana — installing Kibana, defining your first index pattern, and running searches. Examples are provided throughout, as well as tips and best practices.

Besides email, IT teams need a flexible communication platform that facilitates fast and easy collaboration. Slack is one such tool, as it helps internal teams collaborate and make decisions quickly. OpManager now integrates with Slack, enabling you to discuss issues related to your network on a more agile platform, and collaborate with team members to troubleshoot network issues.

Kubernetes admission controllers are a powerful Kubernetes-native feature that helps you define and customize what is allowed to run on your cluster. An admission controller intercepts and processes requests to the Kubernetes API prior to persistence of the object, but after the request is authenticated and authorized.

On May 15 & 16 we hosted the first SCOM Management Pack Development training in Amsterdam. It was an interesting and exciting course as for a first timer in our region, all slots were sold out in the first three weeks after the announcement.

There are a few, simple things in life I really, truly enjoy: a full breath of air, watching my kids learn and grow, and playing the piano immediately come to mind. I was reminded of another one after spending an hour with CameronB from DevOpsChat — full understanding of a complex problem. For me, it’s not finding a fix that works, I have to continue until I understand the underlying issues, but then it’s bliss.

There are a lot of things we, at Sentry, love about Rookout, a Sentry Integration Platform early adopter. First of all, Sentry loves purple, and Rookout loves purple. And, Rookout helps fix software in production, and Sentry helps fix software in production. Together, the two tools cut time from error to resolution. Honestly, Rookout and Sentry integrating is just kismet.

The Monitorama Conference kicked off this week in Portland, Oregon, and Grafana Labs’ Tom Wilkie will be presenting his talk, “Grafana Loki: Like Prometheus, But for Logs,” tomorrow.

If you’re a Rails developer, then you’ve probably used Rails Logger on at least one occasion or another. Or maybe you have used it without even realizing, like when you run ‘rails server’ and it prints information to the terminal window, for example. Rails Logger provides us with a powerful way of debugging our applications and gives us an insight into understanding errors when they occur.

In this post, I would like to expose the mindset that helped me have my very first business profitable since day one. This is not a proven methodology, but I intend to replicate the way I started this business to maybe validate it. Before getting started, here are some metrics to put yourself in the context.