Our dashboards enable engineering teams to take quick decisions. So, a good design is critical. We have been busy fine-tuning our dashboards to make them more user-friendly. Welcome to SigNal 11 - our monthly product updates where we update you on what we’ve been up to. Last month, we crossed 6,000+ GitHub stars, 700+ slack community members, jazzed up our graphs, and much more. Let’s see what humans at SigNoz have been up to in the month of March 2022.

According to Microsoft, Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) reduces hacks by 99.9%. And in a world where hackers attack every 39 seconds, the peace-of-mind that comes from MFA is immense. But what happens when those security safeguards prevent you from creating a valuable user experience?

This last decade has seen abundant changes in the way businesses operate. Digital transformation is no longer a new term, however, is still relevant. It has resulted in virtual establishments superseding the popularity of brick and mortar setups, becoming the prime choice of business operations.

Today, I’m happy to share that Grafana Labs has closed a $240 million Series D round of investment. This is a major milestone for us that goes well beyond the number of dollars. First, we are grateful to our internal team (affectionately called Grafanistas) and our community of users and customers. Without them, we would not have been given this opportunity.

Go, an open-source programming language backed by Google, makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Go’s efficiency with network servers and its friendly syntax make it a useful alternative to Node.js. All network applications need well-tested features, and those developed in Go are no different. In this tutorial, we will be building and testing a simple Go blog.

The new world is “always-on,” hyper-connected, massively distributed, and moving at an accelerated “near-real-time” pace.

In today’s digital environment, no company is immune to cyberattacks. In fact, more than one-third of organizations worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach that blocked access to systems or data, according to IDC.1 From the Capital One incident to the SolarWinds attack, businesses and organizations of all facets and sizes are at the forefront of such threats.

AWS announced the release of the Lambda Function URLs feature today. In this post, I describe what it is, how it works, and how you can benefit from it. API Gateway and AWS Lambda is a potent combination and lets you build REST APIs without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. API Gateway offers many powerful features out-of-the-box, including: Understandably you pay a premium for these features.

Databases are great for data processing and storage. However, in many cases it is better or easier to work with data in files on a file system, some tools even cannot access the data in any other way. When a database (DB) is created in a database management system (DBMS) using a file system as its data storage, it of course uses files on the given file system to store the data.

State and local governments require a high level of performance and reliability for the millions of people accessing their web applications every day. The talent shortage and lack of resources to train their staff on how to use new technologies prevents them from drawing valuable insights from modern IT environments. IT infrastructure monitoring allows state and local governments to stay ahead of technology trends and face common challenges with intelligence and transparency.