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At FOSDEM 2020, Grafana Labs software engineers Tom Braack and Malcolm Holmes explained how and why the team developed Tanka, a scalable Jsonnet-based tool for deploying and managing Kubernetes infrastructure. They also shared how Grafana Labs leverages the project to manage and monitor its own infrastructure as well as showcased how Tanka makes deploying a Grafana instance faster and more efficient.

Data pipelines provide the ability to operate on streams of real-time data and process large data volumes. Monitoring data pipelines can present a challenge because many of the important metrics are unique. For example, with data pipelines, you need to understand the throughput of the pipeline, how long it takes data to flow through it and whether your data pipeline is resource-constrained.

In English, the word “present” has two different meanings: the first one is “now”, as in now that you are reading this article, and also the meaning of gift. There is no misunderstanding here, but there is also the adjective “free”, which can mean free, something that does not need to be paid, or having freedom. Today we will see several free applications that you may use as web monitoring tools.

Today we share a recent conversation with Kris Cowles, Vice President, Global Applications IT at Topcon Positioning Systems, a 2,000-person division of Japanese company Topcon. Previously, Kris worked as the Director of Engineering Operations at Cisco. She discusses some of the growing pains of working with SaaS vendors and how she’s making it work.

In today’s fast-growth, faster-results market, your customers expect your applications to be always available and up-to-date. Meeting that demand often involves migrating to the cloud, which offers increased scalability and flexibility, allowing engineering teams to innovate more quickly and produce the delightful user experiences customers are looking for.

At InfluxData, we love the community! Our amazing open source members are an integral part of InfluxData and have been since its founding. They’ve helped us build amazing products for time series data. This is a quick update to give you some insight into how we track metrics about our community and ensure we are building products and features that our users want to see.

Tags provide critical context for troubleshooting issues across any dimension of your environment. By applying best practices for tagging your systems, you can efficiently organize and analyze all your monitoring data, and set up automated multi alerts to streamline alerting workflows. Similar to any tags you would add to your services and infrastructure, monitor tags—tags that you apply to your monitors—are an essential feature for organizing and simplifying your workflows.

Container technologies have taken the infrastructure world by storm. Ideal for microservice architectures and environments that scale rapidly or have frequent releases, containers have seen a rapid increase in usage in recent years. But adopting Docker, containerd, or other container runtimes introduces significant complexity in terms of orchestration. That’s where Kubernetes comes into play.