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Announcing Workflows - Fix k8s issues on the fly

Meet "Workflow" from Komodor, the feature that automates troubleshooting common errors in Kubernetes. Leveraging Komodor’s change intelligence capabilities, Workflow's smart algorithm automatically detects Kubernetes issues and responds with a series of checks that quickly pinpoint its root cause. Not stopping there, Komodor uses the information to provide made-to-measure instruction for remediation, turning troubleshooting into a fast and effortless experience for dev and ops.

xMatters

xMatters service reliability platform helps DevOps, SREs, and operations teams automate workflows, ensure infrastructure and applications are always working, and rapidly deliver products at scale.

Best Practices Guide for Kubernetes Labels and Annotations

Kubernetes is the de facto container-management technology in the cloud world due to its scalability and reliability. It also provides a very flexible and developer-friendly API, which is the foundation of its control plane. The effectiveness of the Kubernetes API comes from how it manages the Kubernetes resources via metadata: labels and annotations. Metadata is essential for grouping resources, redirecting requests and managing deployments.

xMatters: WEX Automates the Triage Process and Delivers a Better Service Experience

Does your internal triage process keep you up at night, literally or figuratively? If so, WEX used to have triage and onboarding issues that got in the way of their success too, but with xMatters, they've found a better way. Join James Molchanoff (JT), Information Systems Engineers at WEX, John Kallio, Information Systems Engineer at WEX, Will Derksen, Product Advocate at xMatters, and Zoe Na, Customer Success Manager at xMatters, as they discuss how WEX has embraced xMatters to reduce triage and call-out time and simplified their onboarding process.

Resolve AWS Lambda function failures faster by monitoring invocation payloads

In a serverless application, AWS Lambda functions are typically invoked by JSON-formatted events from other AWS services—like API Gateway, S3, and DynamoDB—and respond with JSON-formatted payloads. Having visibility into these function request and response payloads can provide context around your function invocations and help you uncover the root causes of Lambda function failures.

Making data accessible with sound, a Grafana Labs Hackathon project by Kostas Pelelis

We learned from a visually impaired astronomer that it was possible to use sonification to understand astronomical spectra. So during a hackathon at Grafana Labs we decided to turn time series into audio, and add sound to our alerting systems too. Kostas Pelelis is a Software Engineer at Grafana Labs living in Greece.

JFrog and Upswift: Bringing IoT Software Updates to DevOps Upswift Acquistion

JFrog has acquired Upswift to bring the world of connected devices into the DevOps pipeline! Managing fleets of devices and edge applications remotely - including over-the-air (OTA) updates, security, monitoring, controlling and more - has quickly become unwieldy for most companies, with growth of connected devices expected to reach 24 billion in 2026. But, most of today’s DevOps solutions are not optimized or built to deliver software updates to distributed edge and IoT environments.