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Working Toward Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Part 1

In theory, Honeycomb is always up. Our servers run without hiccups, our user interface loads rapidly and is highly responsive, and our query engine is lightning fast. In practice, this isn’t always perfectly the case — and dedicated readers of this blog have learned about how we use those experiences to improve the product.

Weaveworks Combines Jaeger Tracing With Logs and Metrics for a Troubleshooting Swiss Army Knife

Founded in 2014, Weaveworks Inc. makes software that helps developers and DevOps teams build, run and manage containerized applications on Kubernetes. Its products include GitOps-based cluster management, and application delivery, observability and monitoring solutions for services running on Kubernetes. It is a founding member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Digital Enterprise Journal, 451 Research, and Gartner Highlight OpsRamp's Platform for Hybrid Infrastructure Monitoring and Service-Centric AIOps

The third quarter of 2019 has seen OpsRamp receive market recognition from three independent analyst firms, Digital Enterprise Journal, 451 Research, and Gartner. Leading media publications, DevOps Online News and ITOps Times, have also highlighted OpsRamp’s capabilities for DevOps and IT Operations Analytics.

Serverless Computing for Dummies: AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP

Serverless computing is the latest, greatest thing in the technology world. Although the serverless concept has been around in one form or another for more than a decade, the introduction of serverless platforms from major cloud providers—starting with AWS Lambda in 2014—has brought serverless mainstream for the first time.

Talking with Nexthink About the Future of Digital Employee Experience

Tori Kaufmann-Paulman is a Senior Manager of End User Technology and Sales Enablement at Putnam Investment. I had a blast presenting on the joint Nexthink / IDG webinar talking with peer leaders about the future of digital employee experience. To really dig in I encourage you to consider each of these words on its own.

API Monitoring and OAuth 2.0 Authentication

OAuth 2.0 Authentication, as explained by oauth.net, is a “delegation protocol that is used for conveying authorization decisions across a network of web-enabled applications and APIs.” OAuth was created in 2006 by developers from Twitter and Ma.gnolia, a social bookmarking site. Ma.gnolia was looking for a way to use OpenID, along with the Twitter API, to delegate authentication.

Datadog + New Relic: Monitor every layer of your stack

Application performance monitoring (APM) dovetails nicely with infrastructure monitoring, allowing you to monitor app performance and end-user satisfaction in context with the rest of your infrastructure. That’s why we unveiled Datadog APM to complement our infrastructure monitoring platform and provide full-stack observability.

Efficiently retrieve old logs with Datadog's Log Rehydration

Logs provide invaluable information about issues you need to troubleshoot. In some circumstances, that may mean that you have to look back at old logs. For example, you may be running a security audit and need to analyze months-old HTTP request logs for a list of specific IP addresses over a period of time. Or you might need to investigate why a scheduled service never occurred, or run an exhaustive postmortem on incidents that happened over a couple months but that you suspect are related.