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Our 2nd December update adds alert counters to the web app, allows for disabling the opt-in/out from “Services & Systems” categories and adds a new encoding format to the SIGNL4 webbhook.

There is a huge difference between shopping at an actual store and shopping online. The tactile experience of wandering through an actual store, handling the products, and chatting with store associates about your interests creates memorable and engaging experiences. Even watching other people make similar decisions, trying on certain clothes, or crowding certain displays are experiences unique to physical stores. By comparison, shopping online is often impersonal and limited.

Cloud computing, mobile devices, and IoT technologies continue to evolve and proliferate. As a result, businesses are generating and collecting more data than ever before. Data is generated and stored every time a customer interacts with a website or device. Savvy companies understand the importance of capitalizing on that data. It enables them to enhance customer experiences and increase profitability, among other countless benefits.

Ever since the public release of Raygun APM for .NET, we’ve been busy at work to make this the best APM product on the market that provides meaningful data to developers, making debugging and troubleshooting much easier. Every APM product out there will incur some level of performance penalty since you cannot observe a process at zero cost.

We’re excited to release version 7 of the Datadog Agent. It has all of the same functionality as Agent 6, but it is the first version to ship with only the Python 3 runtime. With Python 2 reaching its end of life on January 1, 2020, migrating your services to Python 3 will ensure that they continue working as expected. We’ve tested all of our more than 350 integrations to ensure they work with Python 3.

Cilium is an open source technology that delivers network security to large-scale containerized environments at the packet and application levels. Cilium integrates easily with your Kubernetes clusters, either self-managed or managed services (e.g., Amazon EKS, Google GKE, and Microsoft AKS). You can also deploy Cilium to Docker environments using Mesos.

We recently wrote a blog with Julien Dubois, a Java Developer Advocate from Microsoft, on how to simplify logging for Spring Boot applications. This is a small preview. Spring Boot is an open source Java framework that makes it easier for developers to create microservices. Azure just announced Azure Spring Cloud, which will help Java engineers on Azure developer Java microservices faster. This blog explores how to simplify logging for Spring Boot applications.

It's Friday afternoon and you decide to check on your web logs one last time before you go out for the weekend. Since you've deployed recently, you want to make sure everything is going smoothly. You open your tool and suddenly you find your screen flooded with TypeErrors. Does this sound familiar? JavaScript TypeError is one of the most common browser errors because it wraps a number of different situations, each of which needs to be handled separately.

At KubeCon San Diego, I presented an updated and revised version of my talk “Blazin’ Fast PromQL”. In this blog post I’ll give you a brief write up of the talk and steps to reproduce the results yourself.