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IT Monitoring News | November '24 Edition

Welcome to our November edition of the NiCE bi-monthly newsletter! We’re thrilled to share the latest updates, insights, and events to keep you ahead in the ever-evolving IT monitoring landscape, primarily revolving around Microsoft System Center. Whether you’re looking to stay current with new features, understand best practices, or network with fellow professionals, our newsletter has you covered.

Deploying the Loki Helm on AWS | Grafana

One of our most requested Loki tutorials is here! Deploying the Loki Helm on AWS . In this video, we’ll walk you through the entire process of deploying the Loki Helm on AWS; from creating a Kubernetes cluster to configuring essential AWS resources to learning best practices when creating your Helm values file. If you are struggling with your first production deployment this should get you up and running so you can store your logs.

Find and query application errors in Honeybadger Insights

Join Honeybadger cofounder Ben Curtis as he uses Honeybadger to find and query for application errors in Honeybadger Insights. Honeybadger Insights is a new full-stack logging, observability, and performance monitoring tool from Honeybadger.io. Gain insights into your errors, application logs, and other event streams with a powerful query language and ready-made dashboards.

A Taste of Observability - Embrace the Cloud With OpenTelemetry

Join Splunk Observability expert Kirk O'Quinn and Monster CICD Lead Graham Bucknell for a conversation on OpenTelemetry (OTel), a powerful open-source project that is transforming how we monitor and trace applications. In this informative session, we will delve into the world of Otel, exploring its history, its roadmap and we will discuss lessons, and success/failures of “Companies” journey to OpenTelemetry.

How to work with multiple data sources in Grafana dashboards: best practices to get started

Grafana dashboards enable you to visualize and correlate data from a wide range of sources. With a centralized view of your data, you can troubleshoot faster, make better decisions, and streamline monitoring. But for those of you ramping up with Grafana, you might have a few questions about how, exactly, to create these rich dashboards featuring data from disparate sources, or even how to incorporate multiple queries from a single source into your visualization.

Observability 2.0: Don't repeat sins of the past

If you are moving in the observability circles, chances are that you have heard the phrase “Observability 2.0,” which refers to how we need a new approach to observability. I am incredibly excited about the energy and discussion around a shift to “Observability 2.0,” as we now have a second chance to develop observability the way it was originally envisioned.

Debugging Python Cold Starts with Sentry Profiling and improving our P99 latency by several seconds

At Sentry, we don't just build debugging tools for developers—we use them ourselves. This story demonstrates how we leveraged our own platform to solve a mysterious performance issue that was causing significant latency spikes in our critical infrastructure which is used in nearly every backend request.