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Moving from an IT and Security Data Admin to an Observability Engineer

Join Ed Bailey, Nick Heudecker, and Jordan Perks as they discuss what it means to transition from acting simply as an IT and security data administrator to becoming a true observability engineer. In your role as an observability engineer, you’ll guide an organization on observability data best practices, enhance existing tool functionality, help control cost, and improve overall compliance.

AIOps: Hype vs. Reality

What is AIOps? How does an AIOps platform help your observability practice? AIOps platforms analyze telemetry and events, and identify meaningful patterns that provide insights to support proactive responses. AIOps platforms have five characteristics:1 The above is Gartner’s definition and is part of the Gartner® “Market Guide for AIOps Platforms.” The Gartner definition is also aligned with our view.

Are Your Engineers Gonna Need A Bigger Boat?

If you asked your engineering team how well they can handle all of the security and observability data they’re managing, would you get a resounding “Yeah boss, we’re good to go!” in response? Possible, but unlikely. Chances are they feel like they’re stuck on a boat that’s taking on water, spending their day using tiny buckets to scoop some of it out, with no way to plug any of the leaks.

You've instrumented performance...now what?

Sarah has an app and turned performance monitoring on and has a slowdown but doesn’t know where to start to fix it… Ben has the guide to diving into Performance with Sentry. You have a laptop, computer, or comodor64. Together, we will discover: Join Sarah Guthals, Director of Developer Relations, and Ben Pepper, Solutions Engineer, in this interactive workshop and your future self will thank you.

InfluxDB's Strengths and Use Cases Applied in Data Science

This article was written by Shane from Infosys. Infosys is a global IT Leader, headquartered in India, with over 200,000 employees and a focus on digital transformation, AI/ML, and Analytics. Our organization faces challenges when working with data to assist with proactive anomaly detection, triaging incidents to accommodate for data and volume growth, and maintaining high availability and SLA’s for a near 100% uptime.

Time Series Forecasting With TensorFlow and InfluxDB

This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. You may be familiar with live examples of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) technologies, like face recognition, optical character recognition OCR, the Python language translator, and natural language search (NLS). But now, DL and ML are working toward predicting things like the stock market, weather and credit fraud with astounding accuracy.

Tame the Internet with DX NetOps 22.2 Network Monitoring Software

DX NetOps 22.2 optimizes network operations with industry-leading visibility, scale and modern network coverage beyond the network edge to quickly and easily isolate end-user experience impact of network performance issues. Recent research revealed that 67% of companies cite internet and cloud network paths as monitoring blind spots. Furthermore, 71% of companies say that adoption of new network technologies is delayed by inadequate network monitoring software.

New in Grafana 9.1: Share your Grafana dashboard with anyone via public dashboards

We’re excited to announce the launch of a new feature we’ve been working on in Grafana 9.1: public dashboards 🎉. The public dashboards feature will allow you to share your Grafana dashboard with anyone, even if they’re not part of your Grafana organization. Historically, the only way that someone could share a dashboard externally was taking a one-time snapshot 📸, or disabling all authorization for their Grafana instance 😬.