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Visualize Logs Alongside Metrics: Complete Observability for Slow PostgreSQL Queries

When latency creeps into your app, metrics tell you that performance regressed, but logs tell you why. PostgreSQL’s slow-query logging gives you the exact statement, duration, user, and database which is perfect for hunting down missing indexes, inefficient filters, or N+1 patterns.

Real-time OS examples: use cases across industries

In sectors where precision and predictability are non-negotiable, timing is everything. Whether coordinating robotic arms on a factory floor, maintaining ultra-reliable latency in telecom networks, or ensuring an automotive braking system responds instantly, the success of these systems depends on meeting strict timing deadlines.

OpenTelemetry API vs SDK: Understanding the Architecture

When you're instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry, you'll encounter two core components: the API and the SDK. The API defines what telemetry data looks like and how it is created, while the SDK handles how that data is processed and exported. Understanding this split helps you build more maintainable observability and avoid tight coupling between your business logic and telemetry infrastructure.

Design Concept: User-Created AI Agents with External Tool Support

Here's an early look at user-created AI agents with external tool support in Mattermost — designed to integrate AI into daily workflows while maintaining governance and security. We’d love your feedback on this design. Contact the Fast Futures team at fastfutures@mattermost.com.

Open Source Data Lakehouse Architecture with Spark and Kyuubi: Engineering Deep Dive

Subscribe. Fuel your curiosity. This webinar gives a detailed exploration of an open source data lakehouse architecture and how we implement it at Canonical. Watch to discover how Spark’s scalable processing engine and Kyuubi’s user-friendly SQL gateway enable efficient, secure, and high-performance analytics on unified data sets. Let’s dig deeper into how this combination simplifies big data storage, interactive analytics, and ETL – all through a single, streamlined open source lakehouse architecture.

What is Database Change Management (DCM)?

Database change management is the foundation for building a stable, secure, and high-performing application. In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, where agile and DevOps are the go-to for developing database application, rapid releases and continuous iteration are the norms. But with frequent deployments comes the risk of untracked database changes.

Self-Service Query UI for Logs in Azure Data Explorer (ADX)

This video focuses on how to create a self-service user interface (UI) for querying logs using Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) module. Perfect for developers and business users aiming to gain actionable operational insights from log data with simple visualizations and monitoring.

IT Alerting: Everything You Need to Know

Behind every reliable service is a team of people watching for problems. But they don’t stare at screens all day. They rely on IT alerting systems. An IT alerting system tells you when something is wrong. It finds problems fast, so your team can fix them before your business or customers are affected. This article will explain everything you need to know about IT alerting. You’ll learn what it is, why you need it, how to set it up, and which tools work best. Table of Contents.

A complete security view for every Ubuntu LTS VM on Azure

Azure’s Update Manager now shows missing Ubuntu Pro updates for all Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) releases: 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04. The feature was first introduced for only 18.04 during its move to Expanded Security Maintenance. With this addition, Azure highlights where Ubuntu LTS instances would benefit from Expanded Security Maintenance updates if the administrator attaches an Ubuntu Pro license, even for instances running more recent Ubuntu releases.