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At Mattermost, we aim to develop a product that is simple to deploy and manage. To this end, we recently examined Kubernetes, today’s most popular orchestration platform that uses containers.

In this post, I’m going to cover some of the fundamentals of how Calico works. I really don’t like the idea that with these Kubernetes deployments, you simply grab a yaml file and deploy it, sometimes with little to no explanation of what’s actually happening. Hopefully, this post will servce to better understand what’s going on.

In today’s digital economy, user experience is truly the most important factor that makes or breaks a digital business. Customer experience is even surpassing price and product as the biggest brand differentiator. Even one bad experience on a website can hurt your brand. 55% of consumers report that a single bad website visit can hurt their opinion of a brand. So, how do you know whether your customers are satisfied with the performance of your website?

Jaeger is composed of different components, each potentially running in its own host. It might be the case that one of these moving parts isn’t working properly, causing spans to not be processed and stored. When something goes wrong, make sure to check the items listed here.

New year, new feature... and this is a big one: downtime alerts to Slack. As well as getting email and SMS alerts when your websites go down you can now receive alerts straight to your Slack workspace.

Threat hunting is proactively identifying and thwarting unusual network activity that could indicate an attempted security breach. It's a historically manual activity, making it time-intensive and arduous. It’s no wonder, then, why most organizations don’t have the time, budget, or resources to undertake it effectively…if at all.

Being proactive is one of the key elements of a successful company. We are always seeking ways to help you perform at your best. With this goal in mind, we have been working on enhancements over the past couple of months in our alerting logic. Today, we’re proud to announce another highly anticipated feature from LogDNA: Absence Alerting!

Out of the box, Sentry notifies you about crashes in your JavaScript apps and gives you useful tools to help you debug what your app was doing when it broke. If Sentry stopped there, it would still be great and valuable, but it’s possible to maximize your front-end debugging potential with just a few manual optimizations.

One perennial problem we face in monitoring is dealing with noise. We don't want to miss important signals, but sorting through all the noise can be a chore. Ideally, we want to spend as little time as possible doing the setup work needed to achieve excellent signal-to-noise ratio. The feature we've just released will help you get closer to that optimal setup faster, with less work.