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CI/CD observability: A rich, new opportunity for OpenTelemetry

Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) are the backbone of modern software delivery, but there’s still limited visibility into their processes. Here’s how that’s changing with OpenTelemetry (OTel), and why those changes are so exciting.

Mastering Log Monitoring: Boost Your IT Operations

With the development and increased usage of cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures, log monitoring has become a fundamental component of effective management for organizations. Logs offer users insights into occurring issues and assist them in understanding how their software performs over time, where it excels, and where it fails.

Syslog: Even Better Best Practices

The Cribl Syslog source is our most commonly used input type. Cribl Stream can act as your edge and/or central syslog server, giving you more capability while easing management tasks. In this blog post we’ll go over a brief history of syslog. Then we’ll dive into best practices for standing up Cribl Stream as a syslog server, tuning the server, and other tips for running a high performance syslog platform.

The Crucial Role of Accurate Monitoring in Ensuring Hydrogen Safety

Hydrogen is increasingly recognized as a pivotal element in the transition to sustainable energy sources. Its potential applications range from powering fuel cells in electric vehicles to serving as an alternative fuel for industrial processes. However, the properties that make hydrogen a valuable energy resource also present significant safety challenges. Being the smallest and lightest molecule, hydrogen is highly flammable and can escape easily through the tiniest of leaks. Therefore, accurate and continuous monitoring of hydrogen is essential to ensure safety and mitigate any risks associated with its use.

How to customize your Loki deployment with Ansible

Michal Vaško is a DevOps engineer at cloudWerkstatt, with a passion for open source technology and a deep love for observability. While operations or platform teams have long relied on visibility into metrics to react swiftly, the idea of doing the same thing with logs was once just a dream. Thankfully, Grafana Loki has revolutionized the logging stack, giving you the same level of visibility with logs that you get with metrics.

Announcing... Markdown magic

We're excited to share a small but mighty new feature. Our Text tile now supports Markdown! This allows you to include rich content on your dashboards such as headings, links, lists, images and more. At SquaredUp we know that a useful dashboard is more than just a few charts. With this update you can now provide key context to the data on a dashboard to help tell the right story. For example you might want to: You can easily do all that now, and more.

The future of AI in Business: Preparing your infrastructure

As the digital age progresses, businesses are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to stay competitive and innovative. Among the various branches of AI, Generative AI (GenAI) has been rapidly adopted due to its immense potential to transform business operations.

Q2 2024 Round Up: VictoriaMetrics & VictoriaLogs Updates

Many thanks to everyone who joined us for our recent virtual meetup, during which we discussed some of our Q2 2024 highlights, including features highlights, the 2024 roadmap for VictoriaMetrics and all the latest news on VictoriaLogs! In this blog post, we’d like to share a summary of these highlights.