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Anomaly Advisor Case Study - K6 Load Test

In this video, our Analytics & ML Lead, Andrew Maguire, walks through an example case study using the K6 load testing platform to run a load test against some of our demo servers running Netdata. Watch in real-time as the Anomaly Advisor reacts to the load test and painlessly surfaces the most anomalous metrics, making it easy to just "see" the load test and how it plays out on the servers.

Engineering Levels at Honeycomb: Avoiding the Scope Trap

It has been seven years since Rent the Runway posted their engineering ladder, kicking off a veritable trend of engineering teams open sourcing their ladders. Interestingly, nearly all of them seem to have coalesced around “area of scope” as a useful proxy for level. At first glance, “area of scope” does seem to make sense. Senior engineers should be able to work across larger areas of the organization. In addition, your area of influence should expand as you gain experience.

KubeCon EU 2022 - Trends & Highlights

Kubecon EU returned to Spain. This time to Valencia, city of paella and horchata and, of course, a great place for big events. We had a great time meeting you all in person, and attending the talks. Here are our hot takes from the event. The main event started on Wednesday, but before that different co-located events took place: Ebpf Day, Cloud Native SecurityCon, and PrometheusDay among others. These events gathered a large number of attendees.

Introducing Opportunities & Experiments on WebPageTest: Take the Guesswork out of Performance

As many of you will know, Catchpoint and WebPageTest joined forces 18 months ago with the goal of building stronger alignment across the IT org to ensure performance issues can be caught in QA, staging and development, not just once new features are released to production.

PCI DSS 4.0: Protecting Payment Card Processing

PCI? PCI SSC? PCI DSS 4.0? Need these acronyms explained? Well, this blog is for you. Read on to find out how the new PCI DSS 4.0 (a set of security standards created to ensure companies maintain a secure financial environment) will affect how you transact online, monitor your website payment gateways and more.

This Win is for Our Customers - We've Just Raised $142 Million in a Series D Round

While 2020 and 2021 were significant years for us, we’ve entered this year ready to give more to our users! We’re delighted to share we have raised $142 million in a Series D funding round! So what does that mean for you exactly? Over the past few months, our team has been working hard to build custom mapping for metrics, an advanced tracing UI, and more into our platform. The world is our oyster, and we can’t wait for you to see what else we have planned!

Is monitoring dead yet?

No, it is not! How can it possibly be dead? In my opinion, monitoring is some thing very important for building a successful IT infrastructure. If monitoring is dead for an IT infrastructure then either that infrastructure already does not exist; or it is so powerful that problems like failure, errors, utilisation issues etc never occurs in the IT infrastructure which is literally not possible.