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A closer look at Grafana k6 browser: alignment with Playwright, modern features for frontend testing, and what's next

Over the years, we’ve seen our community embrace Grafana k6 browser as a key component of their frontend testing strategies. By helping collect frontend web vitals, capture custom metrics, and simulate user actions like clicking buttons or completing forms, the module offers teams a deeper understanding of performance and availability from their end users’ point of view.

Agentic AIOps in Action: LogicMonitor, IBM, and Red Hat Deliver Self-Healing IT

Your most skilled engineers shouldn’t be spending nights and weekends piecing together root causes of outages. Yet many organizations still rely on manual incident response across sprawling hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The result: slower resolution times, frustrated customers and lost revenue that can reach up to $1 million per hour according to IDC. At LogicMonitor, we believe the answer isn’t just better monitoring. It is systems that can heal themselves.

3 things you can do to get closer to five nines

5 minutes. That’s how much downtime some of the world’s largest enterprises will tolerate. For most organizations, five nines (99.999%) of availability sounds like a pipedream. But the trick to increasing availability isn’t massive infrastructure spending or complex system redesigns. All it takes are three key practices that any team can adopt and implement. In this post, we’ll present these practices and how we implement them at Gremlin.

Sending beers all across Belgium, a throwback to how we named Oh Dear

We're obviously a little biased, but we believe we have one of the best website monitoring tools on the market today, leading in features compared to our competitors. We've already tried a variety of marketing techniques to promote our service, but none really had the impact we were looking for. Maybe we're better at actually building good software than we are at marketing it? Or are we trying what everyone else is also doing, thus making it all harder?

OpsHelm goes multi-cloud with Aiven Diskless BYOC, cuts costs by 78% over MSK

In under a month, OpsHelm the continuous, enriched changelog for cloud infrastructure - migrated its streaming backbone from MSK and NATS to Aiven Diskless Kafka (BYOC on AWS). The switch eliminated cross-cloud networking fees, collapsed multiple storage layers into one, and cut total streaming costs by 5x (from >$50,000/year to <$10,000/year) while serving the team a single logical event bus that stretches across multiple regions and accounts.

Cloud Microservices Monitoring on AWS and Azure with OpenTelemetry

Your checkout flow starts in an AWS Lambda function, calls a payment service running on EKS, then triggers notifications through Azure Functions. Three different compute platforms, two cloud providers, one distributed trace that you can't see. Cloud providers want you to use their native monitoring tools. AWS pushes X-Ray and CloudWatch. Azure promotes Application Insights and Azure Monitor. These tools work well within their ecosystems but lock you into vendor-specific implementations.

Debugging Microservices in Production with Distributed Tracing

Your production checkout flow just started returning 500 errors. Six microservices handle checkout. Logs show errors in three of them. Which service broke? Which error happened first? What caused the cascade? Traditional debugging doesn't work. You can't attach a debugger to production. Searching logs across six services gives thousands of lines with no obvious connection. By the time you correlate timestamps and trace IDs manually, customers have abandoned their carts.

The Operational Side of Setting Up Your Business

Launching a company can come with a lot of work. While it can be the best thing you ever do and enable you to achieve one of your life goals, you also need to make sure that you get it right. This is why setting up the operational side of things is key. In this blog post, we're going to look at how you can do it.

How to Set Up a Public Live Webcam? A Simple Guide

Public live webcams are one of the most engaging ways to connect places and people in real time. Whether it's a scenic city square, a monument, a mountain lodge, or a sports arena, a camera live streaming platform lets you share the experience with viewers worldwide. Travelers check live cams to see weather before visiting, fans watch stadium feeds for behind-the-scenes action, and communities love watching their favorite locations come alive. With modern cloud-based solutions, you no longer need complex servers or expensive infrastructure - you can go live in minutes and stream securely at any scale.