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“Everything as code” has become the status quo among leading organizations adopting DevOps and SRE practices, and yet, monitoring and observability have lagged behind the advancements made in application and infrastructure delivery. The term “monitoring as code” isn’t new by any means, but incorporating monitoring automation as part of an infrastructure as code (IaC) initiative is not the same as a complete end-to-end solution for monitoring as code.

A few lines of code in your website’s header can make or break your security and your customer’s trust. We know how important that is to you, so at RapidSpike we’re here to empower you with data, protecting your website from the top down, and today we’re talking about the very top — your homepage header and its precious metadata.

Grafana v7.4 has been released! The big news for Grafana 7.4 is the next-generation graph panel called time series, which is in beta. A high-performance visualization based on the uPlot library, it uses the new panel architecture introduced in Grafana 7.0 and integrates with field options, overrides, and transformations.

Very often, we face situations when the website we are trying to access refuses to load. In addition, repeatedly refreshing the site also does not bring out any positive results. This is when you understand that there is something amiss with the server and that it might be down.

In this article, we will explain how to monitor AWS SQS with Prometheus. To monitor AWS SQS, we will leverage the data offered by CloudWatch exporting the metrics to Prometheus using the YACE exporter (Yet Another CloudWatch Exporter). Finally, we will dive into what to monitor and what to alert. AWS SQS (Simple Queue Service) has gained popularity as a way to communicate and decouple asynchronous applications, specifically for its easy integration with AWS Lambda functions.

Microservices, also known as microservices architecture, refers to a method of designing and developing software systems. Microservice architecture is becoming increasingly popular as developers create larger and more advanced apps. The goal is to help enterprises become more Agile, especially as they adopt a culture of continuous testing. Here are the basic features of microservices.

The next-generation of mobile connectivity is rapidly bringing supercharged mobile gaming, Internet of Things technology, and a smarter, better-connected world to consumers’ fingertips. As 5G rapidly evolves and brings new possibilities, it presents a wealth of opportunities for mobile network operators (MNOs) to differentiate their services with high performance applications; and for wireline operators to deliver differentiated backhaul transport services, but they need to act quickly.

Digital transformation has transformed the way people interact with brands, software, and making buying decisions. Businesses need to find ways to adapt with these changes and manage the customer journey. Businesses have to continue to provide excellent service and a superior customer experience in these times of transformation. In the case of service-based companies, this requires efficient customer request management.

For a complete JFrog DevOps SaaS solution hosted on Azure, the puzzle is now complete. JFrog DevOps Pipelines CI/CD is now available for all JFrog Cloud plan levels hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud service. With Pipelines automation, now all the key elements of the JFrog DevOps Platform can be hosted on Azure as a SaaS subscription. That includes the Artifactory universal binary repository manager, and Xray software component analysis.