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timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 81

TimeShift is back after a few weeks away with a lot of updates to share. Nearly all of the Videos and presentations from GrafanaCon LA are available, so please check them out and let us know what you think. Also, if you hadn’t heard, Grafana v6.0 stable was recently released which has lots of new features and enhancements. Download the latest version v6.0.1 and read about the highlights below.

A crash course on Serverless with AWS: Centralized logging with Kinesis and Lambda

Don’t you just hate it when APIs are failing and you have absolutely no clue why? Now imagine you don’t have access to the VM, cluster or container where your software is running. Want me to continue with this nightmare? Yes, that’s what debugging AWS Lambda functions tends to seem like. A horrid nightmare of not knowing what is happening nor why things are failing. This article will show you a way of logging function invocations.

Mattermost 5.9: New Integrations Directory, a simple way to migrate data from Hipchat and more

Mattermost 5.9 ships with platform improvements that will help your team collaborate more productively. Try these new features by downloading Mattermost 5.9 today. Since it includes security updates, upgrading is recommended.

Collect Amazon DocumentDB metrics and logs with Datadog

Amazon DocumentDB is an AWS-managed document database service that supports MongoDB, the well known open source database. As a managed service, AWS automatically handles database management tasks, autoscales database clusters, and backs up your data to S3. DocumentDB implements the Apache 2.0 open source MongoDB 3.6 API, making it easy to migrate your existing MongoDB workloads to DocumentDB.

Leveraging Log Management for Business Intelligence

They say knowledge is power and today, there is no greater source of knowledge than data. It is well documented that businesses produce a vast amount of data whether it be in manufacturing, IT, UX, Marketing, Sales or Finance. Collectively, all of this data can provide you with business intelligence, enabling you to optimize decisions, improve collaboration, and increase overall performance.

Building Autocomplete With Dynamo and Lambda

We recently released a new search key autocomplete feature here at Honeybadger. It was such a fun project that I just had to write it up for you all. Not only does it showcase an exciting use of DynamoDB, but it also shows the challenges of using Dynamo cost-effectively with large amounts of frequently-updated data.

How Nextcloud Uses Sentry to Build Private, Federated Clouds

Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file share and communication system. You might even consider it a platform, in the sense that apps run on top of Nexcloud and it provides a variety of features beyond file handling, including calendar/contacts, project management, communication, and more.

How New City Energy Is Supporting Sustainability with Grafana

Grafana isn’t just being used for monitoring applications. Andrew Rodgers, Senior Systems Architect at New City Energy, spoke in Amsterdam at GrafanaCon EU 2018 about how his organization is using Grafana to measure energy usage in municipal buildings in Washington D.C. for the Department of General Services (DGS).