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23 Facts on GitHub Reliability in 2022: Data Study of Outages by StatusGator

With over 83 million users, GitHub is one of the most popular development tools out there and the third most monitored service on StatusGator. Since so many users depend on GitHub, we wanted to analyze GitHub’s reliability in 2022 and find and uncover some interesting facts about GitHub outages.

Easily add tags and metadata to your services using the simplified Service Catalog setup

Modern applications running on distributed systems often complicate service ownership because of their ever-growing web of microservice dependencies. This complication challenges engineers’ ability to shepherd their software through every stage of the development life cycle, as well as teams’ ability to train new engineers on the application’s architecture. With increased complexity, clarity is key for quick, effective troubleshooting and delivering value to end users.

Why Is Kubernetes Troubleshooting So Hard?

Maintaining reliable Kubernetes systems is not easy for anyone, especially for team members with less in-depth knowledge of Kubernetes itself and the overall service environment. This blog, part 1 of 3 in the “8 SRE Best Practices to Help Developers Troubleshoot Kubernetes” series, outlines the key challenges SREs and developers face when they need to quickly troubleshoot and remediate issues in applications running on Kubernetes.

New in Grafana Cloud: Key improvements to the command palette and navigation experience

A new navigation experience will be rolled out in Grafana Cloud this month, with improvements designed to make Grafana more seamless to use. Along with updates in Grafana’s search and navigation, there is a new enhanced command palette that helps streamline workflows and allows you to move through the platform without even taking your hands off the keyboard.

Getting started with Elastic Observability for Google Cloud in less than 10 min using terraform

This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to observe Google Cloud environments. This will only take about 10 min of working time for you to get a fully configured Elastic Cluster that is actively collecting the data of your Google Cloud environment.

A Beginner's Guide to OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open-source observability framework that provides a standardized way of collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data (metrics, traces, and logs) from distributed systems. It was born by a merger between two previously separate observability projects, OpenCensus and OpenTracing, and it is currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

Introducing our new Item Detail page

We’re excited to share a significant update to all Rollbar plans in the next few weeks. We’ve redesigned our item detail page with a new mobile layout, prioritized important error context, display occurrence details more clearly, and put all actions at your fingertips. With our new UI, we are confident you will work more efficiently, so you can resolve errors quickly and get back to your essential work.

Performance and User Experience Monitoring for Citrix Linux Workspaces

Citrix for Linux VDI and DaaS options allow organizations to deploy Linux digital workspaces and Linux applications that can then be accessed by end-users from Linux or non-Linux endpoints. This allows organizations to deploy applications optimized for Linux OSs to users using mobile, Mac, Windows, and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) endpoints as well as those using native Linux.