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Mobile iOS Error Simulator

Ready to explore Rollbar without the coding hassle? The Rollbar Error Simulator iOS app is the ultimate solution for carefree error testing, designed for users without coding experience. Seamlessly connecting to your Rollbar account, this user-friendly app lets you simulate errors effortlessly with just a single tap on a button. No technical expertise is needed! Just create a new account, opt for the Error Simulator experience, and you'll be guided.

Saga Design System: shaping the future of user experiences at Grafana Labs

At Grafana Labs, we want to empower our fellow Grafanistas and the community to get the most out of the Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). As part of this effort, we recently launched a new Grafana developer portal. And now, we’re pleased to announce the launch of the Saga Design System, which establishes a shared visual language for all of Grafana Labs’ offerings.

Performance optimization techniques in time series databases: strings interning

VictoriaMetrics is an open-source time-series database (TSDB) written in Go, and I’ve had the pleasure of working on it for the past couple of years. TSDBs have stringent performance requirements, and building VictoriaMetrics has taught me a thing or two about optimization. In this blog post, I’ll share some of the performance tips I’ve learned during my time at VictoriaMetrics.

Level 1 NOC WiFi/LAN/WAN Correlation and Triage

The latest release of Network Management 23.3 from Broadcom, the solution extends assurance to cloud-based Wi-Fi architectures with global correlation to your LAN and WAN infrastructure for a complete view of network health across vendors, protocols and user experiences. Today, most NOCs still monitor Wi-Fi as if it is a wired service with no comprehension of its radio integrity or user movements. As a continuation of the "Unified NetOps" capability, v23.3 will enable any NOC to monitor wireless networks using the standard workflows for alarm management, ticketing, and triage, but with the added Level 2 NOC awareness of radio frequency metrics, noise level, interference, and wireless user demographics and movements.

Elastic Observability ES|QL Demo

Elevate Your Data Game with Elastic Observability and ES|QL! Discover the future of data querying with Elastic’s groundbreaking new feature: ES|QL! In this video you'll deep dive into how ES|QL revolutionizes the way you interact with complex, distributed data, ensuring seamless and efficient data analysis. Who Is This For? Whether you are a data analyst eager to optimize your query writing skills, or a business leader looking to democratize data insights across your organization, this video is tailor-made for you!

Troubleshooting Kubernetes Network Performance Issues with Kentik Kube

Discover the power of Kentik Kube, the solution for unparalleled network insight into Kubernetes workloads. In this video, Phil Gervasi walks us through Kentik Kube’s ability to track and visualize container traffic across data centers, public clouds, and the internet. Using the interactive Kube map, Phil demonstrates how to troubleshoot a network latency issue affecting an online shopping application, highlighting the tool's capacity for in-depth analysis of pod performance and node-to-node traffic. Learn how to create custom dashboards for custom oversight, set up proactive alerts for performance issues, and enforce security and compliance across your Kubernetes infrastructure.

Elasticsearch and LangChain collaborate on production-ready RAG templates

For the past few months, we’ve been working closely with the LangChain team as they made progress on launching LangServe and LangChain Templates! LangChain Templates is a set of reference architectures to build production-ready generative AI applications. You can read more about the launch here.

Why public sector needs AI-powered observability: Cost savings, ROI, and analyst efficiency

Elastic Observability customers saw 243% ROI and $1.2 million in savings over 3 years For government and education organizations around the world, facilitating an efficient, reliable customer experience is essential when providing critical services and building trust with stakeholders. As technology infrastructure expands and the IT landscape becomes a complex mix of private cloud, public cloud, and air-gapped environments, the ability to see across all systems and data is challenging yet critical.