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Time series databases allow you to store and query metrics efficiently. For example, if you want to forecast load on your servers, or identify intermittent faults with your production services, time series databases can help. Besides infrastructure monitoring, time series databases have been invaluable in finance, IoT applications, manufacturing, and more. Many time series databases, including VictoriaMetrics, are open source.

Following the Icinga Notifications beta announcement, we already had a more general post on how to get started and one going into the details of schedules. This week’s blog post is a follow up in this series and will describe incidents, escalations, and event rules in Icinga Notifications in more detail. In case you haven’t seen the first two referenced blog posts, you might want to have a look at them first, otherwise, you could miss out on the big picture.

Earlier this year, we were thrilled to announce that Catchpoint is now available as an Enterprise data source for Grafana! With the public preview release of the Catchpoint Enterprise data source, you can seamlessly bring Catchpoint’s extensive Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) and Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) capabilities into your Grafana dashboards, enhancing your ability to visualize and analyze performance metrics in real-time.

We break down the essentials of streaming aggregation and its impact on modern data processing.

Learn about OTLP’s key features, and how it simplifies telemetry data handling, and get practical tips for implementation.

Summer’s over, but we’ve got something cool for you! Now that things are settling back down, we’re excited to announce a new feature to make uptime monitoring even easier and more efficient. Say hello to Monitor Wizard.