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Tracealyzer Demo and Features

A short demonstration of Percepio Tracealyzer by Dr. Johan Kraft. Tracealyzer is the premier solution for visual trace diagnostics, giving embedded software developers amazing insight into their runtime systems. This allows for easier debugging of system-level issues, finding software design flaws and for measuring software timing and resource usage. Ensure your code is reliable, efficient and responsive. If not, learn why.

The role of endpoints in the security of your network

Endpoint security is a hot topic of discussion, especially now with so many businesses shifting to remote work. First, let’s define what endpoints are. Endpoints are end-user devices like desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. They serve as points of access to an enterprise network and create points of entry that function as gateways for malicious actors. Since end-user workstations make up a huge portion of endpoints, we’ll be focusing on their security.

Rails Security Threats: Authentication

Authentication is at the heart of most web development, yet it is difficult to get right. In this article, Diogo Souza discusses common security problems with authentication systems and how you can resolve them. Even if you never build an authentication system from scratch (you shouldn't), understanding these security concerns will help you make sure whatever authentication system you use is doing its job.

GrafanaCONline Day 6 recap: The latest on Loki for logs, Grafana for monitoring high performance computing, the business of Grafana Labs, and more!

GrafanaCONline 2021 has ended! Thank you to everyone who tuned in and to all of our presenters. If you’d like to relive any moment, it’s not too late to sign up to get notified about on-demand access to all the session recordings, which will be available soon. If you didn’t get a chance to watch Thursday’s presentations, here’s what you missed from Day 6 of the conference.

Auvik Presents: Rollup & Retrospective Q2 2021

We’re highlighting value in use cases for network monitoring and management! Auvik has rolled out changes you’ll want to know about. Join Patrick Albert, VP Product Management, and Julie Forsythe, VP Engineering, for a retrospective of the past few months of development and to learn about a few works-in-progress in this informational webinar.

OpenTelemetry, Not Just for Production Troubleshooting

OpenTelemetry, Not Just for Production Troubleshooting: How to Prevent Downtime as Early as Local Dev OpenTelemetry is a great tool for observability and debugging in production. It provides you with data that empowers understanding of what is slow or broken, as well as what you can do to fix problems that occur in production. But what if you could leverage those same OpenTelemetry capabilities in pre-production? What if you could use those capabilities during development and testing phases to proactively prevent downtime in production?

Conditional Distributed Tracing

Distributed tracing is generally a binary affair—it's off or on. Either a trace is sampled or, according to a flag, it's not. Span placement is also assumed to be an "always-on" system where spans are always added if the trace is active. For general availability and service-level objectives, this is usually good enough. But when we encounter problems, we need more. In this talk, I'll show you how to "turn up the dial" with detailed diagnostic spans and span events that are inserted using dynamic conditions.

Observability is More Fun With Friends: Stories From OpenTelemetry Collaboration

Panel Guests: Amy Tobey | Equinix Metal, Andrew Hayworth | GitHub, Liz Fong-Jones | Honeycomb, Ted Young | Lightstep The modern open source landscape is hard enough, given the (sometimes) conflicting interests of commercial partners, end-users, and project maintainers. It takes a real, intentional effort to build collaborative relationships across these groups in order to make improvements to projects. In this panel, we'll share stories about what's worked from our involvement in OpenTelemetry as maintainers, community representatives, and end-users.