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What are the 4 DORA metrics, and what do they mean for Ops teams?

Performance monitoring has become increasingly important for operations teams in today’s rapidly changing digital landscape. The DORA metrics are essential tools used to measure the performance of a DevOps team and ensure that all members work efficiently and collaboratively toward their goals. Here, we’ll explore what exactly DORA metrics are, how they work, and why companies should be paying attention to them if they want to set up an effective DevOps environment.

Write Loki queries easier with Grafana 9.4: Query validation, improved autocomplete, and more

At the beginning of every successful data exploration journey, a query is constructed. So, with this latest Grafana release, we are proud to introduce several new features aimed at improving the Grafana Loki querying experience. From query expression validation to seeing the query history in code editor and more, these updates are sure to make querying in Grafana even more efficient and intuitive, saving you time and frustration.

The Incident Commander Role: Duties & Best Practices for ICs

Imagine that a critical incident — a major outage, cyberattack or disaster — occurs out of nowhere in your company. In such a case, you'll try to minimize the damage and get back to normal operations as quickly as possible. But how will you do that? You've no idea how to manage such incidents. This is where incident commanders come in. They're trained professionals who lead the response to critical incidents.

Datadog On Reliability Engineering

There are many different ways to implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). From team structures to roles and responsibilities to planning and prioritization flows, there’s no golden path for how to organize things. As Datadog has shifted from a startup to a quickly-growing public company, we’ve seen our own SRE practice evolve. With over 22,000 customers sending trillions of data points each day, keeping Datadog reliable is critical to our business.

Forbes Names Cribl as One of America's Best Startup Employers 2023

Values led culture. Meaningful work. Remote-first environment. Massive growth. A love of Goats. These are just some of the ingredients that make Cribl a place where employees can do their best work. And we’re honored to be recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2023 with a top 10 ranking! Not all awards are created equal, and this recognition by Forbes is particularly meaningful because it’s based on extensive data research and social listening analysis.

Next Play 2023 - A New Stage of Leadership at Auvik

As the old adage goes “the only constant is change.” This is certainly true in any growth-stage tech company. It’s a very exciting time here at Auvik as we continue to accelerate our growth and take market share. To that end, today we announced that we’ve expanded our leadership team as we embark on this next chapter of growth.