April product updates
April was packed with updates, and we’ve got plenty to share! You may have noticed numerous enhancements to StatusGator throughout the month. Let’s take a moment to recap what’s new.
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Lightrun Panel Webinar with Google DORA and Priceline May2024
In this insightful webinar hosted by Lightrun and moderated by Eran Kinsbruner, global head of product marketing and best-selling author in the software development space we delved into the latest developments in software development and performance, focusing on the recent Google DORA report. In the first segment of the webinar, Nathen Harvey and Amanda Lewis from Google Cloud's DORA team provided a comprehensive overview of the latest report's findings, highlighting the emerging emphasis on Performance and Reliability in the industry.
Live event recap: Humanizing the on-call experience
There’s no two ways about it: on-call is stressful. But with humans at the center, it’s especially important to find ways to make it as manageable and empathetic as possible. In this webinar with our friends at ELC, incident.io VP of Engineering, Noberto Lopes, and Intercom Staff Product Engineer, Andrej Blagojević, discuss their own experiences with on-call, and how the process can be better.
Setting up your Grafana k6 performance testing suite: JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and more
Editor’s note: This blog post is the second in a series of posts about organizing your performance testing suite with Grafana k6. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the first post in the series, which explores how to implement reusable test patterns and other best practices within your testing suite.
NMS Migration Made Easy: Moving Foward with Kentik NMS
The time has come to switch to your new network monitoring solution. Remember, if an alert, report, ticket, or notification does not spark joy, get rid of it. We’ll cover how to spin up Kentik NMS and ensure you’re ready to sunset your old solution for good.
MPLS vs SD-WAN: Optimizing Your WAN for the Cloud Era
Imagine your business as a bustling city with branch offices scattered across different districts. Efficient communication between these locations is vital for smooth operations. This is where Wide Area Networks (WANs) come in, acting as the high-speed highways that connect your city's various departments. But when it comes to choosing the right WAN technology, navigating the options can feel like getting lost in a maze.
Introducing Honeycomb for Frontend Observability: Get the Data You Need for Actionable Customer Experience Improvements
Today, we're announcing the early access program of Honeycomb for Frontend Observability. Honeycomb for Frontend Observability gives teams the ability to quickly identify opportunities for optimization within their web app. This starts with better OpenTelemetry instrumentation, available as an NPM package, that lets you instrument and collect attribution data on Core Web Vitals in under an hour.
Elastic Observability on Google Cloud - Access insights in real-time with AI
With the power of Elastic on Google Cloud, you can bring your logs, metrics, traces, and profiling together at scale for unified visibility and AI-powered insights across your entire ecosystem. Discover how organizations of all sizes unify and visualize all their data in one place using the combined innovation of Elastic and Google Cloud.
Why You Don't Need to Hire Kubernetes Experts
History has a tendency to repeat itself. This is because bad habits and anti-patterns are hard to break. And this remains the case with the latest sought-after engineering unicorn––the “Kubernetes expert”. These days, there is a veritable gold rush to hire the best and brightest Kubernetes wizards. Like all forms of expertise––this gold is rare, and as a result––is also costly. But this isn’t a new phenomenon in the technology world.
OnPage-Slack Integration Walkthrough
Extend OnPage's incident alert management to Slack.