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Java agents are a special type of class which, by using the Java Instrumentation API, can intercept applications running on the JVM, modifying their bytecode. Java agents aren’t a new piece of technology. On the contrary, they’ve existed since Java 5. But even after all of this time, many developers still have misconceptions about this feature—and others don’t even know about it. In this post, we remedy this situation by giving you a quick guide on Java agents.

We’ve already covered why log management is important, but we’ve only briefly touched upon one of the best ways that managing your log files can help you and your enterprise, which is, namely – with troubleshooting.

Monitoring versus observability is a hotly debated topic. It’s been argued that they’re two distinct things — the former just a high-level overview of a problem after the fact, while the latter enables you to be proactive. Observability has also been dismissed as jargon, much how “DevOps” sounds to the seasoned operator.

Today we're announcing BugSplat's new look to our customers via email. We've made some pretty significant updates, and we're excited to walk you through them.

Time for another installment in the series where we explain in detail yet another important metric for tech organizations. After covering MTTD and MTTF, today we answer the question, “What is MTBF?” As the post title makes clear, MTBF stands for “Mean time between failures.” The acronym refers—like the others that came before it—to an important DevOps KPI. But what actually is it? What is it good for? How do I implement it?

The “serverless” movement is taking the industry by storm and now, with Datadog, you can start monitoring your serverless applications and functions on AWS Lambda. As soon as you enable the Lambda integration, you’ll start to see your metrics in an out-of-the-box dashboard like the one above. Monitor and alert on AWS Lambda serverless functions in minutes with Datadog.

G Suite is a collection of cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools developed by Google. Today, millions of teams use G Suite (e.g., Gmail, Drive, Hangouts) to streamline their workflows. Monitoring G Suite activity is an essential part of security monitoring and audits, especially if these applications have become tightly integrated with your organization’s data.

In this KubeCon + CloudNativeCon session last month, Grafana Labs Software Engineer Goutham Veeramachaneni offered a deep dive into how to make sure your Cortex will scale with your usage.

Authorization to Operate (ATO) in a day and on-going authorization are compliance nirvana. The ATO is the authorizing official’s statement that they accept the risk associated with the system running in production environments using live business data. The idea that all of the information necessary to make a risk decision is at hand and can be consumed by decision makers is what every compliance program is trying to achieve.

We are happy to inform you that we are upgrading our user interface to support Kibana 7 for Logz.io! Kibana 7 offers users a long list of UI and UX enhancements that will make monitoring and troubleshooting your environment a much simpler and nicer experience. These enhancements include a cross-app dark theme, a new time picker, new filtering, a better dashboarding experience, and most importantly – a significant boost in performance. Shall we take a closer look?