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A critical component of any monitoring and observability system is alerting. But alerts in and of themselves aren’t enough—when something goes wrong, time is of the essence, and your team needs to figure out not just what’s going on but how to fix it, and fast. Additionally, constantly chasing down alerts can be the bane of any observability practitioner’s existence.

We’re rolling out new visualization capabilities in the Explore log management interface that are available now in some accounts and will be added to all in the coming weeks and months. With these updates you can: Warm Tier: There is now a new option for log storage and access that bridges the gap between high-performance Hot storage and the low-cost Cold Tier. Reach out to your customer success team for more information.

Continuing our series on setting up Prometheus in a container, this article provides a step-by-step guide for how to configure alerts in Prometheus. We will add alerting rules and deploy Prometheus Alertmanager with Slack integration. If you follow the steps in this article, you will end up with a containerized setup for: Let's get started.

Picture this: Your team is scrambling during a system hiccup. Messages fly back and forth, everyone's checking different dashboards, and no one has the full picture. Sounds familiar? That's why more companies use internal status pages as their single source of truth. These private dashboards show you everything that matters.

According to IDC, 80% of organizations are running hybrid and multicloud environments, bringing new complexities and risks for IT leaders*. When it comes to operations, IT teams find it challenging to maintain visibility across cloud and on-prem systems, optimize more and more tools, and automate operations—all while ensuring cost efficiency and staying agile. Traditional approaches complicate things further, often leading to silos and inefficient resource use.