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Classically, the space of observability lies within layers of information on a dashboard. It operates by using the fundamental trio of data — metrics, logs and traces — from each layer of the environment to assess the health of an IT infrastructure. However, a time component is critical, making the stack observable at any point in time. Gathering reliable data and insights into your IT infrastructure remains the primary role of observability tools and services.

A few days ago, I chatted with Florian Suchan (CTO and Co-Founder at Papershift) about their journey to easy infrastructure autoscaling. As you will see in the article, they tried a wide range of solutions before finding the right fit; if you feel you’re going through the same journey, this article is for you!

Let us consider that you have implemented an integrated solution and are using Serverless360 Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to help provide your support users and business users with visibility of what is happening in the business transaction. BAM provides you with distributed tracing to attain maximum visibility on the integration solution that the functional operations team needs.

The open-source community is about to benefit greatly from Netdata’s new Grafana data source plugin, which makes use of a powerful data collection engine. This new plugin maximizes the troubleshooting capabilities of Netdata in Grafana, making them more widely available. Some of the key capabilities provided to you with this plugin include the following.

When Radware, a DDoS protection solutions provider, needed to upgrade their NOC operations, they tested out multiple solutions before choosing moovingon.ai. From increasing efficiency and visibility to improving ticket resolution times and runbook automation, moovingon.ai provided the NOC manager and team with everything they needed to run operations more smoothly and effectively.

Code that an organization’s developers create is only the beginning of modern software development. In fact, first-party code is likely to be only a small proportion of an application – sometimes as little as 10% of the application’s artifact ecosystem. An enterprise’s software supply chain is made of many parts, from many sources: open source packages, commercial software, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) files, and more.

Many platforms offer free hosting services for React and other JavaScript frameworks. These frameworks can be used for building single-page applications, which is handy when you need to launch a minimum viable product or a quick proof of concept. Your fellow developers are taking advantage of these tools, and you can too. To narrow down options, I will focus on Firebase in this tutorial.

Monitoring and troubleshooting; unfortunately, these terms are still used interchangeably, which can lead to misunderstandings about data collection strategies. In this article we aim to clarify some important definitions, processes, and common data collection strategies for monitoring solutions. We will specify the limitations of the described strategies, as well as key benefits which can potentially be also used for troubleshooting needs.

We've all done it: "that'll be simple, I'll just write a quick script and..." In the case of calculating on-call pay, we really have done it before: our team have built the on-call pay scripts for several companies, and each attempt was a painful, error prone process. While we believe everyone on-call should be paid for their inconvenience, relying on someones side-project or back-of-napkin maths to calculate pay leads to mistakes, frustration, and wasted time.