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Grafana Alerting helps you identify issues almost immediately after they occur — and you don’t have to constantly check your system to get the insights you need. Instead, Grafana Alerting sends alert notifications to reach you wherever you are, whether that’s in a Slack channel or in a messaging app like Telegram. Telegram is a viable option for receiving alerts, especially when you want personal or individual notifications rather than those sent to a team.

On this exciting journey, we celebrate the successes of our team over the course of an incredibly productive year. From solving 2677 development tickets and 2011 support tickets to spending 5680 hours on projects and operations, each metric represents our shared dedication and success with our valued customers, which are the engine of our growth.

With the recent integration between SUSE and StackState, SUSE customers will benefit from the enhanced observability StackState offers for their applications running on SUSE’s diverse Kubernetes distributions. As businesses increasingly rely on Kubernetes, ensuring the stability and performance of applications becomes of great importance.

In the most distinct term, time-series monitoring is all about you analyzing a data or a process over a certain period of time. This period of time can vary according to our needs. We can set the monitoring to provide results every day, every week or even once in a month. Time-series monitoring works like logging, where all the activities your system goes through, are logged and stored in a file.

I'm thrilled to announce the global availability of the port-forwarding feature via the Qovery CLI (v0.77.0). This feature marks a significant stride in application access and security, allowing users to securely access not only their applications but also containers and managed databases without exposing them to the public internet. This advancement aligns with our commitment to providing developers an unparalleled experience, focusing on autonomy, security, and ease of use.

Kubernetes has revolutionized how we manage and scale containerized applications, the flip side of this robustness is often a rising cloud bill. As you navigate the complexities of cluster growth across teams and applications, cost management can become a genuine headache. Enter Komodor’s newly released Cost Optimization Suite. In this blog post, we’ll unpack how this feature-rich addition to the Komodor platform will empower you to optimize costs without sacrificing performance.

OpenTelemetry can be used to monitor ECS clusters. In this tutorial, you will install OpenTelemetry Collector to collect ECS metrics and then send the collected data to SigNoz for monitoring and visualization. In this tutorial, we cover: If you want to jump straight into implementation, start with this Pre-requisites section.

Customer experience (CX) is the impression your brand creates when a customer interacts with your business throughout the buyer’s journey. The journey starts right when the customer visits your business, interacts with your sales representatives, makes a purchase, and continues till the customer reaches out to you with a service request. In their recent study, Salesforce states, “Around 90% of customers prioritize experience as much as a company's products or services.”

With such an eventful year of releases and development, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on all thats been accomplished this trip around the sun. Before we do that, a quick message to the users who've made this year so special. Thank you so much for joining us on this amazing journey. It is your trust and unwavering support which has helped us grow this vision into a reality.

Thanks for joining me for Part 3 of “The concise guide to Grafana Loki,” a series of blog posts that takes a closer look at best practices for various aspects of using the log aggregation system. Today’s post is my holiday present for all the folks out there running Loki who would like to get the most query performance they can out of their cluster.