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Top 10 Change Management Tools

Changes to software are inevitable and fundamental part of growth for any organization, however, change is often not straightforward. It can affect numerous aspects of a company and requires collaboration among all stakeholders. This is where change management tools come in to assist you with this. There’s currently a wide range of change management tools available, each providing benefits to specific scenarios and weaknesses to others.

A guide to scaling OpenTelemetry Collectors across multiple hosts via Ansible

OpenTelemetry has emerged as a key open source tool in the observability space. And as organizations use it to manage more of their telemetry data, they also need to understand how to make it work across their various environments. This guide is focused on scaling the OpenTelemetry Collector deployment across various Linux hosts to function as both gateways and agents within your observability architecture.

Control your log volumes with Datadog Observability Pipelines

Modern organizations face a challenge in handling the massive volumes of log data—often scaling to terabytes—that they generate across their environments every day. Teams rely on this data to help them identify, diagnose, and resolve issues more quickly, but how and where should they store logs to best suit this purpose? For many organizations, the immediate answer is to consolidate all logs remotely in higher-cost indexed storage to ready them for searching and analysis.

Protecting Public Health: Strategies for Handling Legionella Outbreaks

Legionella bacteria pose an immediate and serious threat to public health when present in water systems, potentially leading to Legionnaires' disease - an extreme form of pneumonia caused by being exposed to Legionella bacteria. Therefore, effective outbreak management must take place. One key preventive measure used by officials to safeguard their citizens includes legionella water sampling which allows early detection of potential outbreaks within water networks.

How to monitor Apache web server performance metrics

Apache, the world’s most popular web server software, powers an estimated 30.2% of all active websites. Known for its reliability, flexibility, and robust features, Apache has been the backbone of the internet for decades. From small personal blogs to large-scale e-commerce platforms, Apache’s versatility allows it to handle a wide range of web applications with ease.

Managing users and Permissions in Grafana | Grafana for Beginners Ep 12

When using Grafana in a shared environment, managing users and permissions becomes necessary. Join Senior Developer Advocate, Lisa Jung to learn how! The following are covered in this episode: ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

How to test and monitor your APIs with Playwright

In today's video, we explore a lesser-known feature of Microsoft's Playwright - API Testing. We'll illustrate how to use Playwright for testing GraphQL as an example of an HTTP-based API; RESTful APIs can be tested too. We'll explain the usage of the 'request' fixture with Playwright, parse responses and validate their correctness. Moreover, we'll delve into executing multiple API requests in a single Playwright test case while testing their responses.