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Five Playwright Tips to Level Up Your Testing Game

I joined Checkly a few months ago, and because our platform enables you to use Microsoft’s Playwright to run your synthetic monitoring, I started getting my hands dirty with the end-to-end testing framework. I’m a massive fan of learning in public, so I started publishing weekly Playwright tips on YouTube. Did you miss a few videos? Don’t sweat it! Here’s the first collection of Playwright tricks I discovered over the last few months.

Edge + AppScope: Unlocking New Insights You Didn't Know Existed Was Never This Easy!

The moment has finally arrived! “Yes! I do” “Yes! I do” With great joy, I now introduce to you the newly married Edge and AppScope! Beginning the journey of a lifetime, let’s give it up for this power couple! Together they offer auto-discovery, central management, high scalability, high-fidelity data collection, and rich observability.

Watch: How to get started with Grafana Phlare for continuous profiling

A big piece of news to come out of ObservabilityCON in early November was the launch of Grafana Phlare. Phlare is an open source, horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant continuous profiling aggregation system. Continuous profiling has been dubbed the fourth pillar of observability, after metrics, logs, and traces. The idea behind Phlare was sparked during a company-wide hackathon at Grafana Labs.

An Introduction to SOC Automation

The Security Operations Center, or SOC, is the backbone of modern security operations. By centralizing security monitoring, detection, and response, SOCs help organizations manage security risks more efficiently and effectively. But simply setting up a SOC doesn’t guarantee optimal security workflows. To get the very most from your SOC, you must automate its operations as much as possible.

Top 7 Customer Service Skills Every Service Desk Team Should Have

Internal IT support teams are often the first place employees turn for help with technical issues, and it’s important for team members to be able to quickly understand problems, identify solutions, and enable the employee to get back to work. Though there are plenty of technologies and organizational practices capable of improving support service teams, team-wide skills are the heart of every great service provider.

MTTD: An In-Depth Overview About What It Is and How to Improve It

In this post, we'll learn all about the incident metric mean time to detect (MTTD). We'll see how to measure it and look at its relationship with other incident metrics like MTTR (mean time to recover). Both metrics give useful insights into your incident recovery ability.

The importance of meeting your MSP customers face-to-face

As someone who has worked in an office environment for more than 20 years, I never considered the idea of working remotely. But as a result of what’s happened in the world over the past few years, like so many others out there, I find myself working from home full-time now. Don’t get me wrong, there are many benefits to working remotely—none more so for me than not sitting in traffic for an hour in what should have been a 10-minute commute.

Most Citrix VAD/DaaS stack components are not Citrix

A Citrix Virtual Apps and Deskstops or Citrix Desktop as a Service deployment does not comprise Citrix components only. For instance, SQL databases are crucial components of every Citrix VAD stack and therefore need to be monitored and managed intensively. Besides whether your Citrix delivery controllers have proper access to them, you obviously need to track the database performance and capacity as well.

How we run our Python tests in hundreds of environments really fast

Not in a reading mood? You also can watch the talk I gave at DjangoCon 2022. One of Sentries core company values is “for every developer”. We want to support every developer out there with our tools. But not every developer uses the newest or widely adopted tech stack, so we also try to support older versions of libraries and frameworks.