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Observability: A Concept That Goes Back to the Founding of the Internet

With its market size reaching more than $2 billion in 2020, you’d think that a universal definition of the term observability would have emerged by now. But it turns out that a clear definition of a term or industry isn’t necessarily a prerequisite for the rapid growth of its market size — just ask everyone at your next dinner party to define blockchain for you and see how many different answers you get!

The SRE's Quick Guide to Kubectl Logs

Logs are key to monitoring the performance of your applications. Kubernetes offers a command line tool for interacting with the control plane of a Kubernetes cluster called Kubectl. This tool allows debugging, monitoring, and, most importantly, logging capabilities. There are many great tools for SREs. However, Kubernetes supports Site Reliability Engineering principles through its capacity to standardize the definition, architecture, and orchestration of containerized applications.

Creating Homebrew Formulas with GoReleaser

We chose to use GoReleaser with our distro of the OpenTelemetry Collector in order to simplify how we build and support many operating systems and architectures. It allows us to build targeting a matrix of GOOS and GOARCH targets as well as automate creating a wide range of deliverables. Ones we have utilized are building tarballs, nfpm packages, docker images, and Homebrew formula.

Monitor Akamai Datastream 2 with Datadog

Akamai is one of the world’s largest CDN solution providers, helping companies greatly accelerate the secure delivery of content to their users all across the globe. Akamai provides this content delivery through its Intelligent Edge Platform, which is made up of hundreds of thousands of edge servers distributed around the planet.

To Dynamically Sample or Not to Dynamically Sample | Snack of the Week

In the monitoring industry there’s a complicated and frustrating conversation that persisted over the years: how do you deal with the enormous volume of data generated by instrumentation? On one side of the aisle, you will find a cohort of vendors and developers telling you that you have to sample data, followed immediately by another group telling you that sampling will ruin the accuracy of incident analysis. They’re both right.

Schneider Electric consolidates monitoring tools by 83% with LogicMonitor

Schneider Electric consolidated its monitoring tools by 83% after onboarding LogicMonitor's observability platform. Schneider Electric, one of the most sustainable companies on the planet, is always striving to make energy better. This is done with the help of unified observability.

How to choose the right hyperscaler for your SAP solution

If you’re in the market for a new SAP HyperScaler, you may have been wondering what exactly you should look for. Maybe you’re wondering which model is best for your needs. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We’ve done all the research and found the best SAP HyperScaler on the market. You’ll also find a buying guide to help you navigate the process and find the right SAP HyperScale server for your needs.

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Data Value Gap - Data Observability and Data Fabric - Missing Piece of AI/AIOps

A pivotal inhibitor to mitigate these challenges is the Data Value Gap. Data automation and Data Fabric are emerging as key technologies to overcome these challenges. Learn from industry experts about these key technologies and how they create a lasting impact in enterprise IT.