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The Importance of Uptime for Your Website

Business operations have been revolutionized by the advent of web-computing services. Many organizations now look to decrease or eliminate expenditure, increase efficiency, and maximize profits by moving their processes online because of the unmatched flexibility and ability to scale the cloud affords them. With this sea-change to online, cloud-based operations for businesses has come a new challenge: availability.

Autocatalytic Adoption: Harnessing Patterns to Promote Honeycomb in Your Organization

When an organization signs up for Honeycomb at the Enterprise account level, part of their support package is an assigned Technical Customer Success Manager. As one of these TCSMs, part of my responsibilities is helping a central observability team develop a strategy to help their colleagues learn how to make use of the product.

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Downsampling with Flight SQL and AWS Lambda

This tutorial covers how to perform downsampling with the new InfluxDB storage engine, InfluxDB IOx, in InfluxDB Cloud (available on AWS us-east-1 and AWS eu-central-1 starting January 31st) using AWS Lambda. This tutorial describes how to: InfluxDB IOx addresses key user needs including (but not limited to): We achieved these goals by building InfluxDB IOx on the Apache ecosystem (Apache Parquet, Apache DataFusion, Apache Arrow, and Apache Flight SQL).

How Grafana Labs uses and contributes to OpenCost, the open source project for real-time cost monitoring in Kubernetes

While more and more teams are adopting Kubernetes as their standard container orchestration technology, cost insight is lacking. Teams often don’t know how much they’re spending, where in their organization they are spending, or what is driving their infrastructure cost increases. OpenCost helps alleviate this problem by bringing real-time cost monitoring to Kubernetes workloads with a solution that encompasses both an open specification and an open source project.

Protect Data from Ransomware with Flowmon & Superna

With the rapid rise of ransomware in the recent years, protecting your data is now crucial than ever. Combination of Flowmon' Anomaly Detection System (Flowmon ADS) to provide early warning about upcoming attacks and Superna's capability of taking proactive snapshot of data is a powerful combo to protect your data before any exfiltration attempt.

Cyber Resilience: The Key to Security in an Unpredictable World

Join Ed Bailey and Jackie McGuire as they delve into the topic of cyber resilience and its growing significance in today's digital landscape. In this informative video, you will learn what cyber resilience means, why it's important, and how to manage and improve it in an increasingly unpredictable world. With cyber threats becoming more sophisticated and frequent, cyber resilience has become a critical aspect of protecting personal and business assets. This discussion is perfect for anyone looking to better understand the importance of cyber resilience and how to safeguard against potential threats.

Extending Netdata's anomaly detection training window

We have been busy at work under the hood of the Netdata agent to introduce new capabilities that let you extend the "training window" used by Netdata's native anomaly detection capabilities. This blog post will discuss one of these improvements to help you reduce "false positives" by essentially extending the training window by using the new (beautifully named) number of models per dimension configuration parameter.