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Grafana is a visualization tool that allows you to see and analyze all of your metrics in one unified dashboard. Grafana can pull metrics from any source, display that data, and then enable you to annotate and understand the data directly in the dashboard. Grafana dashboards are designed to allow you to visualize information in a ton of ways, from histograms and heatmaps to world maps. Grafana also has an alerting feature that can communicate with you through Slack, PagerDuty, and more.

You've just made it through a particularly tough incident. It was a short outage affecting a subset of customers, so not exactly the end of the world, but bad enough that it involved multiple people across a number of teams to resolve. Either way, the incident was well managed, and the dust has settled. Now what? Most guidance would say that putting together a post-mortem document is a good idea, given the severity of the incident. You've also done this, so what's next?

The benefits of automating deployments for your Java Spring Boot application are undoubtable. Not only is it possible to set up images and run tests or compatibility checks before updating the production environment, but CI/CD providers like CircleCI take a step further by streamlining the entire delivery process from code changes to deployment. Many teams assume that the specifics of their development stack or deployment process will make automation difficult to achieve.

The G2 Fall 2023 Reports are in! And while leaves are on the verge of tumbling downward, HAProxy's acclaim across multiple categories, market levels, and global segments has only risen. For companies looking for—or migrating from—a load-balancing solution, HAProxy delivers simple adoption, scalable performance, strong security, and observable operation. Altogether, across six product categories HAProxy featured in 58 reports and won 30 badges, including “Momentum Leader”.

In today’s digital age, the most effective organizations are using data to fuel innovation and accelerate business strategies. Data continues to be at the heart of business growth. Organizations increasingly rely on technology to manage and store their data. Questions about ownership, control, and security have emerged — leading to the rise of a concept known as data sovereignty. In this post we’ll explore.

A Dark Network Operations Center (NOC) is one that runs with no IT staff … at least that’s how it’s been defined up until now. But there’s more to interpret. Large, complex networks rely on the NOC — the core of network infrastructure — to keep them healthy and resilient. The NOC’s function allows employees, customers, partners, and other network users to rest a bit easier, and its integrity and accuracy gives them peace of mind.