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Modernizing government documents with Govable and Grafana (Grafana Office Hours #12)

Ari Hershowitz and Andrii Kovalov from Govable.ai talk about modernizing government documents with Govable and Grafana, and how they saved weeks of effort by using Grafana as a ready-made frontend for their clients. They are joined by Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh from Grafana Labs.

Getting started with PromQL

This article will focus on the popular monitoring tool Prometheus, and how to use PromQL. Prometheus uses Golang and allows simultaneous monitoring of many services and systems. In order to enable better monitoring of these multi-component systems, Prometheus has strong built-in data storage and tagging functionalities. To use PromQL to query these metrics you need to understand the architecture of data storage in Prometheus, and how the metric naming and tagging works.

Expert Insights: Navigating Outages Like A Pro

Large enterprises need Internet Resilience solutions to limit damage from the outages and incidents that are an unavoidable part of doing business. Proactive deployments can get ahead of the problem to prevent damage, while reactive ones after the fact can put a cap on losses. Luckily, Internet Resilience in a cloud-enabled world is easier than you think! Tune in for an engaging discussion with Howard Holton & Howard Beader, where they discuss.

Unlocking IT: Considerations for a Powerful Observability Strategy

In today's cloud-native landscapes, observability is more than a buzzword; it's a critical element for software development teams looking to master the complexities of modern environments like Kubernetes. There’s a multi-faceted nature to observability with all its various levels and dimensions — from basic metrics to comprehensive business insights. It’s complex and can continue indefinitely…if you let it.

Our first ML based anomaly alert

Over the last few years we have slowly and methodically been building out the ML based capabilities of the Netdata agent, dogfooding and iterating as we go. To date, these features have mostly been somewhat reactive and tools to aid once you are already troubleshooting. Now we feel we are ready to take a first gentle step into some more proactive use cases, starting with a simple node level anomaly rate alert. note You can read a bit more about our ML journey in our ML related blog posts.