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Introducing Coroot

We’re Nik and Anton, founders of Coroot. We’ve built a tool that boosts the reliability engineering skills of your team. Think of it as your personal assistant who has not only found the root cause of an outage but also suggested a list of possible fixes. Having a background in managing IT ops teams and building a cloud monitoring platform, here are my observations based on my experience: We’ve built Coroot under the belief that more than 80% of issues can be detected automatically.

How To Resolve "fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting" Git Error

When working on a shared Git repository, you may sometimes see the "fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting" error. This happens when your local branch and the remote branch have split, meaning the remote branch has new commits that are not in your local branch. In this article, we'll look at the steps to fix this error and talk about some good habits to prevent it in the future.

What Is Website Maintenance?

Website maintenance is an important part of running a successful website. This article will look at the main parts of website maintenance, such as managing content, security steps, checking performance, and managing users. We will also talk about the good things that come from regular website maintenance and best ways to keep your website in great shape.

Monitoring the IBM Power Ecosystem using Microsoft Azure

In today’s interconnected and hybrid cloud environments, effective system monitoring is crucial for maintaining performance, reliability, and security. This technical presentation explores how Microsoft Azure enables comprehensive monitoring of the IBM Power ecosystem, explicitly focusing on AIX, Linux on Power, and Linux on Z Series operating systems. Further, active monitoring of HMC and VIOS is considered.

Redis monitoring in Applications Manager

Redis monitoring involves tracking the health and performance of your Redis databases to ensure high availability and accessibility for the data stored within them. Monitoring helps you keep a close eye on critical Redis performance metrics, provides you with in-depth insights for understanding resource utilization and capacity planning, and enables quick incident resolution in case of a performance disruption.

Complete Handbook of OpenTelemetry Metrics

You have probably heard of OpenTelemetry in the context of traces. But did you know OpenTelemetry also supports metrics with a comprehensive, forward-looking data model and SDKs? When it comes to metrics, one thinks of Prometheus, but Otel metrics provide exciting ideas such as cumulative deltas, exponential histograms, and more! This talk will demystify everything about Otel Metrics, from the data model to APIs to how to get started. We will cover the differences between Otel Metrics and Prometheus and explain the reasons why people get excited about using Otel Metrics.

Grafana 11 Features for Developers | Grafana

Grafana 11 is now GA! In this video, we do a deep dive exploring all of the new features for our developers. In this video, learn more about: Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

Datadog Conversations: How Life360 Keeps Families Safe with Observability

Life360 is a family safety app driven by the mission to protect and connect people, pets, and things. Naveen Puvvula, Director of Cloud Operations, and Jesse Gonzalez, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, discuss why observability is critical to achieving reliability and how they continue to deliver real-time location updates for their users even during high-traffic events. Finally, they share their advice for other tech leaders in the industry to choose partners that align closely to solve problems together and technologies that reduce friction and improve developer joy.