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Instrument Your Rails Apps Automatically With Honeycomb's New Rails Integration

You’ve always been able to get observability for your Ruby apps by instrumenting them with our SDK, affectionately known as libhoney. Unfortunately, instrumenting code you’ve already written is nobody’s favourite job. If only there were some way to automate the repetitive parts, so you could get instant insight into what your app is doing in production, and then focus your effort on augmenting that insight with the information that’s unique to your app!

So What is Observability Anyway

It’s amazing. It’s brand new. Everyone needs it. It is “the next best thing”. Only half of these statements are true, it is not new and it is not the next best thing. It is branding an existing paradigm that many companies use and rely on—but—it is amazing and everyone should want it. If you’re new to the concept, what does observability really mean and how can it help transform your operations?

GDPR: Top 5 Logging Best Practices

The rather broad definition of personal data in the GDPR requires paying special attention to log data. GDPR and personal data in web server logs is a popular topic in many GDPR fora. For example, IP addresses or cookies might be considered personal data. Consequently, such data must be stored only with the consent of customers for a limited time. It is highly recommended to anonymize personal data before you hand over the logs to any 3rd party to minimize risk.

Performance assurance for virtualized Citrix XenApp infrastructures

In recent years, there has been a lot of focus and discussion on virtual desktop technology as it promises several benefits including better resource sharing, efficient license management, centralized administration and higher security. In fact, according to the 2016 Citrix Performance Survey, 95% of Citrix deployments are already virtualized.

Why Time Series Matters for Metrics, Real-Time and Sensor Data

In this technical paper, InfluxData CTO - Paul Dix will walk you through what time series is (and isn't), what makes it different than stream processing, full-text search and other solutions. He'll also work through why time series database engines are the superior choice for the monitoring, metrics, real-time analytics and Internet of Things/sensor data use cases.