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20+ Examples of Best Public Status Pages of Top Online Brands

Status pages have evolved significantly since their inception. They are no longer mere indicators; instead, they serve as critical communication channels for companies embracing transparency. If you’re running a SaaS (Software as a Service) business, having a public status page is essential. Here’s why.

Best Method to Monitor Your ELK Stack Using Telegraf and MetricFire

The ELK stack, which stands for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, is a powerful suite of tools used for searching, analyzing, and visualizing log data in real time. Within a software company's infrastructure, this stack can be utilized in several key areas to improve operational efficiency, debug issues, and gain insights into user behavior. The ELK stack provides a centralized platform for aggregating logs from various sources.

Apache Spark at Scale #datadog #shorts #security #observability

Datadog is an observability and security platform that ingests and processes tens of trillions of data points per day, coming from more than 22,000 customers. Processing that amount of data in a reasonable time stretches the limits of well known data engines like Apache Spark. In addition to scale, Datadog infrastructure is multi-cloud on Kubernetes and the data engineering platform is used by different engineering teams, so having a good set of abstractions to make running Spark jobs easier is critical.

Introducing Self-Serve Configuration Options for OAuth in 10.4 (UI, Terraform & Via API) | Grafana

Grafana 10.4 introduces self-serve configuration options for OAuth, to make setting up SSO for your Grafana instance simple and fast. All of the currently supported OAuth providers are now available for configuration through the Grafana UI, Terraform, and via the API. In this video, we show you how to configure Oauth in Grafana’s UI. ☁️ 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.

Reduce context switching while troubleshooting with Datadog's IDE plugins

Visibility into the production performance of code iterations helps developers verify that application releases and updates are working as intended. However, when variables such as large-scale user requests and increased server load create issues that were absent during testing, developers will often need to pivot from investigating production data back to their coding environment to address errors and vulnerabilities.