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Introduction to reliability management

Ensuring your digital customer experiences are exceptional is a goal of any modern business. However, managing the reliability of ever more complex applications is a challenge. Developers are releasing new capabilities in fast-moving sprints and the business wants maximum velocity with minimal risk. SRE teams create a structure of continuous improvement that focuses on ensuring the application is reliable above all else.

How to monitor Apache Flink with OpenTelemetry

Apache Flink monitoring support is now available in the open source OpenTelemetry collector. You can check out the OpenTelemetry repo here! You can utilize this receiver in conjunction with any OTel collector: including the OpenTelemetry Collector and observIQ’s distribution of the collector. Below are quick instructions for setting up observIQ’s OpenTelemetry distribution, and shipping Apache Flink telemetry to a popular backend: Google Cloud Ops.

3 Pros and Cons of Amazon CloudWatch

Is your organization currently relying on Amazon CloudWatch for log management and log analytics in the cloud? While CloudWatch delivers on many promises for AWS infrastructure monitoring, it isn’t the only log analytics solution – and may not even be your best option. Fast-growing organizations should consider supplementing CloudWatch with innovative alternatives offering better performance at scale, superior cost economics, reduced complexity and enhanced data access in the cloud.

BindPlane OP Build Process - Using Goreleaser

BindPlane OP is written in Go. It is a single http webserver, serving REST, Websocket, and Graphql clients. It includes embedded react applications for serving the user interface. Go provides us with the ability to produce a single binary program that has no external dependencies. The binary is not dynamically linked to external libraries, meaning it is easy to build, deploy, and run on any platform supported by the Go compiler. BindPlane OP officially supports Linux, Windows, and macOS.

4 Killer Coralogix Tracing Features

Tracing is often the last thought in any observability strategy. While engineers prioritize logs and metrics, tracing is truly the hallmark of a mature observability platform, but it is also the most difficult to implement. Once tracing is in place, engineers typically discover something else – many tracing solutions aren’t particularly feature-rich.

Monitorama 2022: the good, the bad and the beautiful (Part 1)

The summer of 2022 is a strange time to be attending a tech conference. The “Pandemic Pause” has left us all hungry for connection and a little awkward about it. While the world is largely returning to a semblance of comfort with larger public events, COVID is still a real and present threat, something we keep in the backs of our minds all the time.

solr-reindexer: Quick Way to Reindex to a New Collection

If you’re using Solr, for sure there are times when you change the schema and need to reindex. Quite often the source of truth is a database, so you can use streaming expressions via the JDBC source to reindex. But sometimes that’s not possible or adds too much load to the DB. So how can we use Solr itself as a source?

Welcome to the Future of Data Search & Exploration

You have more data coming at you than ever before. Over the next five years, the total amount of digital data is going to be more than twice the amount of data created since the advent of digital storage. With the success of your company often determined by how you anticipate and respond to threats – and leverage meaningful insights – you need the ability to quickly search and find insights in your data, despite this increasing deluge of information.