Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

I'm excited to share that Gartner has included Monitoring as Code (MaC) as an emerging practice to their Hype Cycles for SREs again, the second year in a row. Since we founded Checkly, our vision has been that monitoring should sit in your repository, be codified, and scale with your software development. There is no alternative to MaC as it allows your engineering team(s) to work together, create and maintain checks, and ultimately own their monitoring.

You might be tempted to think that running an app on a public cloud means you don’t need to maintain it. While that would be wonderful, it would require help from the public cloud providers and app developers themselves, and possibly a range of mythological creatures with magic powers. This is because any app, regardless of the infrastructure on which it runs or its output, requires maintenance in order to yield accurate and reliable outputs.

The consequences of not patching are everywhere: remember the Log4j vulnerability that grants hackers complete access to your devices? The best way to prevent this from happening is to use a patched version of Log4j — so why did this become a catastrophic and prolific security vulnerability event? A: Because people hate, forget, or simply dismiss patching as a labor-intensive part of managing their infrastructure.

Monitoring webhook performance is crucial to ensure reliable and efficient communication between your software/application and external services, as delays or failures in webhook processing can lead to significant data loss or service disruptions. Additionally, performance monitoring helps identify bottlenecks and optimize the system, ensuring a smooth and responsive user experience.

‘Everything LTS’ – Canonical will build distroless Docker images to customer spec that include upstream components not packaged in Ubuntu, and fix critical CVEs within 24 hours, supported on RHEL, Ubuntu, VMware or public cloud K8s for 12+ years.

At Megaport, we’re always thinking about how to improve convenience, control, and user experience. And in response to feedback from you, our team is constantly adding and upgrading locations and features. After interacting with our customers and prioritizing this feedback, our Solution Architect and Engineering Product teams have been hard at work adding a range of features and upgrades to our Portal and solutions suite.