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Exciting Times for Monitoring as Code: A Nod from TWO Gartner Hype Cycles

Earlier this week we shared some exciting news. Checkly has made its mark in not one, but two Gartner Hype Cycles reports. We're being recognized for something we're super passionate about - Monitoring as Code (MaC). This recognition comes in the Hype Cycle for Monitoring and Observability and the first ever Hype Cycle for Site Reliability Engineering. It's a big deal for us, and here's why it should matter to you, too.

How to validate Your #circleci config | #SupportShorts

Welcome to our new #SupportShorts video series featuring our Support Engineering Team answering some of your most frequently asked CircleCI questions, tackling common customer issues, as well as sharing their favorite tips and tricks. In today's video, Ervin shows how to validate your config using the CircleCI CLI.

Kubernetes Gateway API (Everything You Should Know)

The Kubernetes networking landscape is shifting. The traditional Kubernetes Ingress approach is being complemented and, in some cases, replaced by a more powerful, flexible, and extensible standard: the Kubernetes Gateway API. Kubernetes has become the go-to platform for orchestrating and managing containerized applications. A key aspect of Kubernetes that's crucial for the functionality of these applications? Networking.

Custom fields: make FireHydrant your personalized incident management platform

Today we're releasing custom fields, a powerful new feature that empowers you to tailor FireHydrant to your organization's specific needs and capture essential incident details. Custom fields help you track critical states, involved parties, resolution specifics, affected services, messages, and more — almost anything you want! — all aligned with your unique workflows. Regardless of the size of your team or the maturity of your processes, custom fields adapt to your workflow.

Downloadable Templates for Runbook Documentation

Kelverion is invested in the success of our customers fulfilling their IT automation goals. As part of this endeavor, we provide various resources to ensure our customers can implement and manage their IT automation goals with precision and efficiency. Some of our resources include our webinars, blogs, technical discussions, and guides for things such as ‘Best Practices’ or ‘What’s New’ in the field of IT Automation.

Start using GPT-4 and local models with the open source OpenOps framework

Organizations — particularly those with high security and compliance requirements — need a customizable way to explore and innovate with artificial intelligence and other new technologies. This is why we’re happy to introduce OpenOps, an open source platform designed to help organizations experiment with AI in a secure environment they control. OpenOps is a framework of several tools that enables you to test open source AI models in a sandbox.

Where does Jackpocket take DORA metrics from here?

Where does Jackpocket take DORA metrics from here? Find out how Sleuth filled a software development hole to help Jacpocket put what they learned from the "Accelerate" book into practice. Give Sleuth a try and see how we empower software teams to build faster by making engineering efficiency easy to improve and measurable — in a way that both managers and developers love.

Mattermost-JumpCloud Integration: A Step-by-Step Guide to SAML Authentication

Are you a Mattermost administrator looking to integrate JumpCloud as your SAML provider? Navigating this process can seem daunting, but not to worry: We've got you covered. This detailed, step-by-step guide (just under 9 minutes) will walk you through the intricacies of configuring JumpCloud as a SAML provider for Mattermost. This tutorial was created to simplify the process and ensure your success in the integration. We've identified and addressed the common challenges that many Mattermost admins face with JumpCloud-SAML integration.

Build vs buy: Choosing the right CI/CD solution for your team

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) has become an essential part of modern software development, allowing teams to deliver high-quality code at a faster pace. Teams can either build or buy their CI/CD system. In this blog post, we will compare both options - exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each - and why CircleCI may be the better choice.

Achieving cost-effective scalability: Optimize AWS ELB pricing using CloudSpend

ELB cost optimization- CloudSpend Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is a load balancing service that automatically and evenly distributes incoming traffic from client-side applications across multiple virtual server instances, like Amazon EC2 instances, containers, or IP addresses, in different availability zones. It smoothly handles server instance failover and unavailability, thus increasing the application’s fault tolerance.