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FogBugz - Agile Project Management Made Easy

There are a number of agile project management tools on the market but one of the oldest and focused agile project management solutions is FogBugz. Launched in 2001, by legendary software developer Joel Spolsky (Founder of Stack Overflow and Trello) FogBugz was specifically designed for small to medium sized businesses with an audience of developers in mind. The features listed below highlight the functionality FogBugz has to offer…

OpsRamp August 2019: Alert Management, AIOps, Cloud Monitoring, Integrations, APIs

The Summer 2019 release introduced: OpsQ Observed Mode, Learning-Based Auto-Alert Suppression and many more updates to the OpsRamp Platform. This week all OpsRamp customers are being updated to our August 2019 release. Customers and partners should review all the details in our release notes. Here’s a high-level summary of what’s new this month: Observed Mode is now available for Alert Escalation and First Response policies.

Announcing Graylog 3.1

Announcing Graylog v3.1 Today we are officially releasing Graylog v3.1. This release brings a whole new alerting and event system that provides more flexible alert conditions and event correlation based on the new search APIs that also power the views. In addition, some extended search capabilities introduced in Graylog Enterprise v3.0 are now available in the open source edition in preparation for unifying the various search features.

Working with REST APIs - Part 1

A question we often get asked is: What exactly is a REST API, and how does it work? While APIs have long had their place in basic developer lexicon, their growing importance to all IT professionals is becoming hard to ignore. The growth in the number of APIs increased by its fastest ever rate in 2019 and, as a consequence of this API explosion, there are now over 22,000 publicly available APIs (according to leading online journal ProgrammableWeb).

Introducing the incident communication template generator

When things go wrong, your users need to know – but it’s not always easy to determine what to say or how to say it. If you’re responsible for getting the word out to hundreds or thousands of users, it can feel like a heavy weight on your shoulders. The task at hand is urgent, yet must be handled delicately. As someone who’s handled incident communication on Statuspage’s status page – the mother of all status pages – I know how difficult these moments are.

Loki's Path to GA: Query Optimization, Part One

Launched at KubeCon North America last December, Loki is a Prometheus-inspired service that optimizes storage, search, and aggregation while making logs easy to explore natively in Grafana. Loki is designed to work easily both as microservices and as monoliths, and correlates logs and metrics to save users money. Less than a year later, Loki has almost 6,500 stars on GitHub and is now quickly approaching GA.

Introducing On-Demand Logging with Logz.io Drop Filters

Logs need to be stored. In some cases, for a long period of time. Whether you’re using your own infrastructure or a cloud-based solution, this means that at some stage you’ll be getting a worried email from your CFO or CPO asking you to take a close look at your logging architecture. This, in turn, will push you to limit some data pipelines and maybe even totally shut off others. Maybe we don’t need those debug logs after all, right? Wrong.

Top 3 RapidSpike E-commerce Tools: Part 1 - User Journeys

Performance and security are the lifeblood of an e-commerce website. The moment pages start to slow down, or your customers fear their data may be at risk, is the moment your business starts to fail. This post is the first in a series of three that will explore the key tools every ecommerce site needs running 24/7.