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One-Click Insights with Board Templates

Whether you’re a new Honeycomb user or a seasoned expert looking to uncover fresh insights, chances are you’ve sent tremendous amounts of data into Honeycomb already. The question is, now what? We have the answer: Board templates. Teams can now create Boards based on pre-built templates that generate visualizations with a single click.

Take Your Pick! The Best Server Monitoring Tools on the Market

IT professionals are always presented with myriad solutions when seeking additional software for their network infrastructure. When it comes to server monitoring solutions, there are multiple options available. After all, every organization has its own needs, individual infrastructure and software requirements. With that in mind, the following list is a guide to help IT professionals select what they believe may be the best possible server monitoring solution for their organization.

What even is DevRel?

DevRel is short for Developer Relations. Developer Relations is exactly what it means, a marketing policy that prioritizes relationships with developers. In general society, there is a word known as PR (Public Relations); you could say DevRel is the developer version of this. Its definition is very simple. People who do DevRel often have a technical background, having worked in the industry before switching to their role, but that is not a requirement.

How to Monitor SaaS Environments with Synthetic Monitoring

Today, we bring you a quick and straightforward overview of "How to Monitor SaaS Environments with Synthetic Monitoring." Whether you're a seasoned professional or a beginner in the SaaS world, understanding the basics of synthetics monitoring can give your SaaS environment a significant boost. In this short video, we're cutting through the clutter and going straight to the point. No deep dives, no overwhelming details – just a crisp, concise look at how synthetics monitoring works. Perfect for those just starting out or anyone in need of a quick refresher.

Monitoring TLS Network Traffic for Non-FIPS Compliant Cipher Suites

FIPS compliant cipher suites hold the U.S. government's seal of approval, guaranteeing their suitability for federal systems. On the other hand, non-FIPS compliant cipher suites may present security vulnerabilities due to outdated cryptographic algorithms and potential lack of perfect forward secrecy. As a result, it becomes paramount to monitor TLS network traffic for non-FIPS compliant cipher suites.

Effective Logging in Threaded or Multiprocessing Python Applications

In Python development, logging is not only good practice; it is vital. Logging is critical for understanding the execution flow of an application and helps in debugging potential issues. The importance of logging for developing reliable and maintainable Python applications cannot be overstated. Python provides capabilities for running concurrent operations—either in a threaded (single process) or multiple process environment. But what implications do these different approaches have on logging?

Amazon RDS: managed database vs. database self-management

Amazon RDS or Relational Database Service is a collection of managed services offered by Amazon Web Services that simplify the processing of setting up, operating, and scaling relational databases on the AWS cloud. It is a fully managed service that provides highly scalable, cost-effective, and efficient database deployment.

Top 5 Server Monitoring Tools

The need to monitor the health of servers and networks is unanimous. You don't want to be a blind pilot who is headed for an inevitable disaster. Fortunately, there are many open source and commercial tools to help you do the monitoring. As always, good and expensive are not as attractive as good and cheap. So, we've put together the most valuable cloud and windows monitoring tools to get you started.

Correlation Does Not Equal Causation - Especially When It Comes to Observability [Part 1]

Observability has been tied up with causality from its origins in the mathematical realm of control theory in the early 1960s. A system (of any kind, hardware or software, natural or engineered) was deemed to be ‘observable’ if it generated self-descriptive data from which it was possible to infer how states of the system were causally related to one another.