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Taming Tetragon With Cribl.Cloud

Did you know you can deploy Tetragon and parse high-volume logs with Cribl Edge? It’s true! Tetragon integrates seamlessly with Cribl Edge. This combination enhances monitoring capabilities in Linux environments. Have your cake and eat it, too. With a combined Cribl and Isovalent solution, you can deliver deep insights into your workloads, optimizing for your specific operational requirements with zero loss of data fidelity.

Mastering IPM: Protecting Revenue through SLA Monitoring

If you’re an SRE, then you already know your SLOs from your SLAs, not to mention your SLIs. But even if you’re not au fait with those acronyms, you’ll soon discover how widespread and applicable these concepts are in this installment of our IPM Best Practices Series. We’ll explore these concepts in detail and explore how external monitoring can enhance the tracking of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), leading to positive user experiences and informed decision-making.

Monitor your OpenStack components with Datadog

OpenStack is an open source cloud platform that enables customers to provision and manage compute, storage, and networking resources via web-based dashboards or APIs. OpenStack offers a range of services beyond standard infrastructure-as-a-service functionality, including orchestration, fault management, and service management components. These components help customers build, maintain, and scale high-availability applications.

The Story of Grafana | Episode 4: Evolution | Grafana Documentary

From an open source project to an open observability platform, Grafana's evolution continues to drive massive adoption and impactful use cases worldwide. The story of Grafana has only just begun. As we wrap up the Grafana 10th anniversary documentary with this final episode, we'd like to give special thanks to the Grafana community and extended open source ecosystem for all of the contributions and support this past decade. There's so much more to look forward to and we can't wait for what's next!

Top 10 Managed Service Providers in the US - Best MSPs of 2024

The future is tech. There’s no doubt there. AI and cloud computing have all grown over the last decade, but great growth comes with great growing pains. That’s where managed service providers (MSPs) come into play. MSPs solve the growing pains of migrating to the cloud, cybersecurity risks, or outgrowing your current tech stack.

What is a content delivery network and why is it important

what-is-a-cdn A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically positioned across the globe to enhance the delivery speed and performance of web content to users. The primary purpose of a CDN is to reduce latency and improve the user experience by bringing content closer to the end users. Imagine you are the owner of a popular e-commerce website that sells an extensive range of products to customers worldwide.

Exploring the Synergy Between Testing and Monitoring in Software Development

The roles of testing and monitoring often intersect, yet they maintain distinct identities. In my near-decade in the tech sector I've observed how end-to-end (E2E) tests and synthetic monitoring, despite common frameworks and requirements, often fail to benefit from collaboration and synergy.

A Lightweight Open Source ELK alternative

ELK is the acronym Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and combined, it is one of the most popular log analytics tools. Elastic changed the license of Elasticsearch and Kibana from the fully open Apache 2 license to a proprietary dual license. The ELK stack is also hard to manage at scale. SigNoz can be used as a lightweight alternative to the ELK stack.

6 best practices for application performance monitoring

In today’s digital era, where applications are the lifeline of many businesses, the importance of monitoring and observing their performance is undeniable. It’s not just about keeping systems up; it’s about understanding how applications behave and ensuring they meet the ever-growing expectations of users. Let’s take a look at six best practices in application performance monitoring that organizations can implement to set themselves up for success.