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Welcome to the 29th edition of our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 29! We are excited to share important updates from Team SigNoz. We are pleased to announce the public launch of SigNoz cloud. We’ve also raised funding of $6.5M to fuel the next phase of building and growth. We also shipped many improvements to the product. Let’s dive in to see what humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of September 2023.

This article is the second installment of the “Implementing Backstage” series and focuses on how to use Backstage’s core features. Backstage has an extensible plugin architecture in active development and large community support and offers simplified tool management, workflow optimization, and time-saving features. However, to reap these benefits, you need to know how to use Backstage’s core features, including its software catalog, templates, documentation, and search.

SharePoint, born from the tech giant Microsoft, is not just another application; it’s a robust platform that’s been transforming the way businesses handle their internal processes for years. At its core, SharePoint is designed to streamline collaboration and document management. But what does that mean in layman’s terms? Imagine a vast digital library, where instead of books, you have documents, images, videos, and other digital content.

If you work with Kubernetes, you know that any number of issues can pose a serious threat to the stability and security of your deployments. One that's subtly damaging is configuration drift, which occurs when the actual state of how your system is set up — its configuration — strays from the way you defined. Configuration drift in Kubernetes can happen when people make changes manually, systems aren't synchronized properly or monitoring falls short.

What guarantees the success of a website today isn’t just its content and design; delivering a seamless and efficient user experience (UX) is also extremely critical. This is where Core Web Vitals are important as they provide a collection of performance metrics to evaluate the quality of website user experience. Core Web Vitals are critical to attract visitors and retain them as they directly impact a site’s visibility on Google.

A few weeks ago, we published some benchmarking that showed performance gains in InfluxDB 3.0 that are orders of magnitude better than previous versions of InfluxDB – and by extension, other databases as well. There are two key factors that influence these gains: 1. Data ingest, and 2. Data compression. This begs the question, just how did we achieve such drastic improvements in our core database? This post sets out to explain how we accomplished these improvements for anyone interested.

Microsoft Teams has become the go-to platform for seamless collaboration and communication. However, like any technology, performance issues can arise, and these issues affect user experience and productivity. For IT teams tasked with Microsoft Teams troubleshooting, having access to comprehensive data is key. In this blog, we explore the challenges faced by IT teams and how harnessing more data can make the process significantly easier.

In celebration of Customer Experience Day 2023, this post is part of a series on customer experience and the ways that Splunk strifves to deliver superior customer experience at every level. Today, customers interact with brands through a variety of channels and platforms. In fact, 57% of customers prefer to engage with brands through digital channels first.

Recently I caught up with Jamie Allen on Episode 67 of the Slight Reliability podcast to discuss the idea of a single pane of glass (SPOG). Jamie had written an article titled The Single Pain of Glass which coincidentally was what I titled Slight Reliability Episode 10. I thought given our shared use of puns and this topic that it was worth a conversation! So, what is a single pane of glass? Is it an idea with practical application? How does it fit into the world of modern observability?

Almost every study examining the hourly cost of outages invariably leads to a clear and undeniable conclusion: outages are expensive. According to a 2016 study, the average cost of downtime was estimated at approximately $9,000 per minute. In a more recent study, 61% of respondents stated that outages cost them at least $100,000, with 32% indicating costs of at least $500,000 and 21% reporting expenses of at least $1 million per hour of downtime.