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What is Observability? Grafana for Beginners Ep. 1

When you are getting started with observability, the jargon and concepts used to explain observability may go straight over your head. Let’s take out the complexity and talk about observability in the simplest terms possible. Join Lisa Jung, a senior developer advocate at Grafana, to get your learning on with the Grafana for Beginners series. You will learn about concepts such as observability and DevOps and how Grafana can be used to observe your system as a part of your DevOps practice.

Most Popular Status Page Providers Used by Top SaaS Vendors

For SaaS companies and cloud vendors, a status page isn’t just a tool — it’s a testament to their commitment to users. But with numerous status page providers in the market, which ones are the top SaaS companies gravitating towards? It comes as no surprise that the most popular status page provider in 2023 is Statuspage.io offered by Atlassian. We expected it at StatusGator when we began our analysis. However, our curiosity didn’t stop there.

How WOW! Modernized Legacy Infrastructure Monitoring with InfluxDB and Kafka

With over 500,000 residential, business, and wholesale customers across multiple markets in the United States, WideOpenWest (WOW!) is one of the United States’ largest broadband providers. They aim to connect homes and businesses to the world with fast and reliable internet, TV, and phone services.

What is the Purpose of Syslog Monitoring in Enterprise Software Companies?

Baseball fans know about the various in-game statistics and actions requiring someone to keep them as records. From a player's overall performance at-bat to a game's final score at the bottom of the ninth, dozens (possibly hundreds) of different statistics are happening throughout a season. In Major League Baseball, these records are essential for the team owner, front office workers and coaches to figure out strategies on the diamond or how to distribute fair pay.

Introducing Honeycomb for Kubernetes: Bridging the Divide Between Applications and Infrastructure

In our continuous journey to support teams grappling with the complexities of Kubernetes environments, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Honeycomb for Kubernetes, a dedicated solution designed to bridge the growing divide between infrastructure/platform teams and application developers. This is available to all plans (including Free!) at no additional cost.

Observability for Sustainability

For the past 20 years, the various stakeholder communities that together constitute the IT industry have attempted to address sustainability. The original efforts grew out of the realisation that even as far back as 2005, the hardware and software that underlay the digital world were responsible for approximately 5% of overall energy consumption and that both the percentage and absolute amounts of energy required were growing in the double digits.

Top 6 Benefits of AIOps You Must Know

AIOps — a term coined by Gartner back in 2017 has emerged as one of the hottest talking points in the realm of ITOps. Since its inception, its adoption by large enterprises has gone up from 5% to 30% in 2023. This impressive 6X growth is a clear indicator that AIOps is here to transform how businesses manage their IT operations. But what is it that makes AIOps special? What are the benefits of AIOps that businesses are looking to leverage.