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All the Hard Stuff Nobody Talks About when Building Products with LLMs

Earlier this month, we released the first version of our new natural language querying interface, Query Assistant. People are using it in all kinds of interesting ways! We’ll have a post that really dives into that soon. However, I want to talk about something else first. There’s a lot of hype around AI, and in particular, Large Language Models (LLMs).

Crash Course on Building and Monitoring AWS CDK Apps

In this webinar, learn how to use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to build a complex microservice-based application and implement distributed tracing to monitor it. You'll be able to follow along with Thorsten Höeger, Cloud Automation Evangelist, and AWS CDK expert Michele Mancioppi, as they live-code an application that uses AWS Lambda with Node.js, and Amazon ECS with Java. Once built, you'll learn how you can apply distributed tracing to any AWS CDK-based application, in just a single line of code.

CloudWatch Logs to S3: The Easy Way

Many organizations use Amazon CloudWatch to analyze log data, but find that restrictive CloudWatch log retention issues hold them back from effective troubleshooting and root-cause analysis. As a result, many companies may be looking for effective ways to export CloudWatch logs to S3 automatically. Let’s look at some of the reasons why you might want to export CloudWatch logs to S3 in the first place, along with some Amazon-native and open-source tools to help you with the process.

A Guide to Different Types of Network Monitoring Tools: Unveiling the Superheroes

In the dynamic realm of computer networks, maintaining optimal performance and security is paramount. Whether you're an IT professional, a network administrator, or simply a curious enthusiast, understanding the types of network monitoring tools available to you can make a world of difference. Just like superheroes safeguarding a city, network monitoring tools play a crucial role in monitoring, managing, and protecting the intricate web of connections that keep our digital world thriving.

Grafana Cloud k6: What's new and what's next?

To ensure the best possible end-user experience, engineering teams must be able to seamlessly transition from performance testing to problem resolution, breaking down any silos that exist between the two. That’s why, earlier this year, Grafana Labs launched Grafana Cloud k6, a unified platform that natively integrates the Grafana k6 performance testing experience directly into Grafana Cloud.

The 4 Best Status Page Software for 2023

As someone tasked with handling the pitfalls and consequences of unwanted downtime, it can be difficult to keep up to date with the latest software developments working to address these undesirable yet inevitable situations. And yet, whilst recognizing this fact is a necessary condition of overcoming such challenges, it is not in itself sufficient to meet the task.

Session Replay for Developers: Your Shortcut to Faster Troubleshooting

What do you do when stack traces and breadcrumbs aren’t enough to reproduce a bug that is inundating your support team with tickets? Session Replay might be the solution every developer didn’t know they needed. Join Sentry engineer Elias Hussary as he shares how you can use Session Replay from Sentry to watch video-like playbacks of user sessions with code-level insights to confirm and debug errors and performance issues more easily. Plus, he’ll give a sneak peek of new and upcoming features we’ve added to our Session Replay product.