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Grafana Labs Mimir is a new time series database under AGPLv3-license. The engineering team did a great job by taking the best from Cortex TSDB, reducing its complexity and improving scalability in the same time. According to tests by Grafana Labs, Mimir can scale to a billion active time series and 50 million samples/s ingestion rate.

IBM this week announced patches for high-severity vulnerabilities in IBM MQ, warning that attackers could exploit them to bypass security restrictions or access sensitive information. Messaging and queuing middleware, IBM MQ provides enterprise-grade messaging between applications, enabling the transfer of data between programs and the sending of messages to multiple subscribers. Two security issues were resolved in IBM MQ this week, both residing within the libcurl library.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is an isolated and secure virtual network in which you can deploy resources, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instances, while restricting their exposure to the internet. As part of your monitoring strategy, you can collect and analyze VPC flow logs, which record network traffic flow between VPC components.

Those who have been paying close attention might have recently noticed small changes in sessions, browsers and platforms lists on Raygun. If you’re using RUM to diagnose user experience issues in different browsers and operating systems down to the detailed versions you will have seen that those details are not always available, with browser versions listed more generally as Firefox 102.0 or Chrome 103.0, for example.

Without Network Monitoring, there is no good way to get a real-time view of your connected environment. But with Network Monitoring reports, you can look backwards to spot problems and trends. Just as vital are logs that deepen this rear-view mirror look, as they contain all the data for all the elements you are monitoring.

A logging framework is a software tool that helps developers output diagnostic information during the execution of a program. This information is used to debug the program or monitor its performance. There are many different logging frameworks available, starting with simple logging libraries to full-fledged logging and observability platforms.

Back in my day, our offices used to have an “open concept” layout – just rows of desks. And at the end of every row was a 720i LCD TV showing 4 to 5 key metrics we’d watch after every release with great concern. While those wallboards sure were beautiful, we rarely had a clear view on how a release was trending. With our latest update to Dashboards, we’re joining form and function with Release Health widgets and a new release filter.

Cloud computing is becoming extremely popular. As a result, the trust in hybrid Cloud platforms is also increasing day by day. By combining the benefits of a Cloud platform with legacy systems, the hybrid cloud model offers something for every kind of business. But, without a strategy to manage operations on a hybrid Cloud model, it is challenging to extract maximum value from it. This blog will examine the best practices for hybrid Cloud management.

HTTP is the backbone of all API-centric, modern web apps. APIs are the place where the core business logic of an application lives. As a result, developers spend a lot of time optimizing the API business logic. This article addresses a Node.js developer’s dilemma while debugging an HTTP API request. We take a sample Node.js/Express.js-based HTTP service to demonstrate a new way of debugging Node.js applications using the Lightrun observability platform.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the ability to publish VPC Flow Logs directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. For Splunk customers, this feature helps to optimize the architecture to send VPC Flow Logs directly to Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud Platform. With a fully managed service like Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, users don’t have to worry about scaling, and can optionally transform their data in near real-time and enjoy the cost-effective, reliable service.