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Kubernetes Monitoring and Alerting Made Easy with Splunk Observability Cloud and OpenTelemetry

In this video, I'll show you how to quickly setup monitoring and alerting for your Kubernetes clusters using Splunk Observability Cloud. We’ll start by deploying the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector using Helm, and then use the Kubernetes Navigator inside Splunk Observability Cloud to view the health of our cluster and the applications it’s hosting. I’ll demonstrate AutoDetect detectors and alerts by intentionally triggering an issue in the cluster and walk through the alerting process. We’ll review the alerts in Splunk Observability Cloud and then resolve the issue in the cluster.

#035 - Beyond Kubernetes: A Veteran of the Container Wars on the Past, Present, and Future of Clo...

This episode of "Kubernetes for Humans" features Dan Ciruli, a Senior Director of Product Management at Nutanix, who shares his journey in tech and his perspective on the evolution of cloud-native technologies. Ciruli discusses his early career as an engineer and his transition to product management, noting that the role was not well-defined in the 1990s. He recounts his experiences with startups, Google, and D2IQ (formerly Mesosphere), highlighting the rise of Docker and projects like Mesos.

Locking Down PostgreSQL with SSL: Secure Remote Connections Like a Pro

PostgreSQL is a beast when it comes to handling data, but if you're running an instance that needs to be accessed remotely, securing it with SSL is non-negotiable. Without SSL, your database connection is essentially an open book for anyone snooping on the network. Let’s lock it down with properly signed certificates!

Monitoring coffee: Tales from Hosted Graphite's secret lab

It has been said that software engineers are organisms that convert caffeine into code. Not all software engineers need coffee to get by, but it's popular enough that it'd be silly for us not to have an office coffee machine... …it'd also be sort of silly for a monitoring company not to monitor that coffee machine, which is so crucial that we could make a reasonable argument for it being part of the production infrastructure.

Love at First Ticket: Training IT on User Support

Technicians go through plenty of technical training, whether it's formal or on-the-job, but many overlook one of the most challenging parts of the job -- talking to users. Unfortunately, users are often contacting IT when something is wrong, which means they're stressed and have a tendency to take that out on the people just trying to help. In this stream, we talked with a few IT leaders to discuss how they train their team members to support users and make their organization fall in love with the IT team.

Telemetry Pipeline 101

Are you looking to enhance your observability and gain deeper insights into your systems? Curious about how a Telemetry Pipeline can revolutionize your monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities while keeping the cost low? Join Mezmo’s Bill Balnave (Vice President of Technical Services) for an insightful webinar unraveling Telemetry Pipeline’s key concepts, highlighting its significance in modern software development and operations. Discover how a Telemetry Pipeline enables you to collect, profile, transform, and analyze crucial telemetry data from your applications and infrastructure.

Ubuntu available in Microsoft's new WSL distribution format

We are happy to announce that Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now available in Microsoft’s new tar-based distribution architecture. Ubuntu has been a widely used Linux distribution on WSL, offering a familiar development environment for many users. This new distribution architecture for WSL will make adoption easier in enterprise environments by enabling image customization and deployments at scale.