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My First Kubecon - Tales of the K8's community, DE&I, sustainability, and OTel

I went to my first Kubecon ever this last week. If you’re not familiar with Kubecon, it is a convention that is around Kubernetes, a Cloud Native Community Foundation (CNCF) open source project. With this being my first Kubecon ever, it was an adventure all around building community, education, kindness, and of course, a love for Kubernetes technology.

How To Investigate a Reported Problem

Getting to the root cause of a problem in cloud-native environments requires engineers to navigate through immense complexity within a distributed system. Oftentimes, you didn’t write the code and you lack the background and context to quickly understand what’s going on when a problem occurs. The stakes are even higher when a problem is reported - meaning it’s already started to impact the business and the executives and your customers are not pleased.

Evolution of Workplace Search: Search your private data with Elasticsearch

Workplace Search functionality will merge with Elastic Search in the future. Here’s what you need to know. Recent advancements in generative AI technologies have opened up a wave of possibilities with search. As developers build new experiences, users are adopting new ways of using search — from search queries written in natural language, to searching by uploading images or voice samples.

Grabbing the Datadog by the Tail

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics tool for information technology (IT) and DevOps teams that can be used to determine performance metrics as well as event monitoring for infrastructure and cloud services. The software can monitor services such as servers, databases, tools, and applications. Cribl Stream makes it easy to move data from anywhere, to anywhere. We take the saying to heart, and we also allow you to send our Cribl application metrics anywhere.

Building Dashboard and Dashboard Inputs in Cribl Search

This video demonstrates how to create “inputs” to Cribl Search dashboards. An Input is a control widget that we can add to our Dashboards to control how they execute. They allow the user to supply a range of inputs to customize one or many of the Searches in each of the panels on a given dashboard.

How to Create Log-Based Metrics to Improve Application Observability

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or DevOps professional, you are well aware of the importance of observability in ensuring the smooth functioning and performance of your applications. Observing and monitoring your applications can help you identify and resolve issues in real-time, resulting in increased reliability and improved user experience. Logs play a crucial role in this process as they provide detailed information about the activity and behavior of your applications.