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Startup vs. running configuration conflict: Its impact, and how to avoid it
This tech topic delves into the challenges posed by conflicts between startup and running configurations, and provides insights on proactive measures to effectively manage them.
Proactive vs. Reactive Website Monitoring
In today’s digital age, the reliability and performance of your website are more critical than ever. Understanding the nuances of website monitoring is key whether you’re part of a bustling DevOps team or a Site Reliability Engineer working to ensure seamless user experiences. This blog post dives into the two primary monitoring strategies: proactive and reactive. We’ll compare these approaches, discussing how each can influence your site’s uptime and user satisfaction.
What is an Anomaly? Avoiding False Positives in Watchdog Detected Anomalies
In 2018 Datadog released Watchdog to proactively detect anomalies on your observability data. But what defines an anomaly? How do you avoid false positives? At Datadog Summit London 2024, Nils Bunge, product manager at Datadog, shared the story of the creation of the first Datadog AI feature (Watchdog Alert), what we learned from it and how we applied those lessons to all the added AI functionalities across the years.
And What About my User Experience?
Monitoring backend signals has been standard practice for years, and tech companies have been alerting their SRE and software engineers when API endpoints are failing. But when you’re alerted about a backend issue, it’s often your end users who are directly affected. Shouldn’t we observe and alert on this user experience issues early on? As frontend monitoring is a newer practice, companies often struggle to identify signals that can help them pinpoint user frustrations or performance problems.
Why companies choose Grafana Cloud for their hosted observability platform
Three different businesses, one shared problem: SailPoint, Kushki, and Flexcity were all looking for a hosted solution to help them optimize their telemetry storage, gain more insights from their observability strategy, and keep costs manageable. But what they gained from migrating to Grafana Cloud and working with Grafana Labs was much more. “The engineering team is super sharp. They’re experts. This is the best of the best," said Omar Lopez, head of the observability team from SailPoint.
Enhancing Data Ingestion: OpenTelemetry & Linux CLI Tools Mastery
While OpenTelemetry (OTel) supports a wide variety of data sources and is constantly evolving to add more, there are still many data sources for which no receiver exists. Thankfully, OTel contains receivers that accept raw data over a TCP or UDP connection. This blog unveils how to leverage Linux Command Line Interface (CLI) tools, creating efficient data pipelines for ingestion through OTel's TCP receiver.
Transitioning to OpenTelemetry
This article touches on how we at Birdie handled our transition from logs towards using OpenTelemetry as the primary mechanism for achieving world-class observability of our systems.
Ask Me Anything: Solving the Top 10 WhatsUp Gold Support Issues
IT Infrastructure (ITIM) tools can take time to learn. That’s even true for WhatsUp Gold, which receives excellent reviews on third party sites for its ease of customization, ease of implementation and vendor support. Thankfully, with WhatsUp Gold, you have many resources at your disposal, including the knowledge base, online documentation, YouTube Channel and community forums.