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Troubleshoot faster and modernize your apps with AWS Monitoring and Observability

As a company born in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, we understand that operating at cloud scale requires balancing security, compliance, and operational safety with your commitment to innovation, speed, and agility. From cost optimization at scale to operational resiliency to application modernization, we know you’re facing various challenges and need reliable solutions.

OpenTelemetry: Why community and conversation are foundational to this open standard

While many of the popular tools for observability in software are open source, one thing they lack is open design. Most of these solutions, from Nagios to Prometheus, started as a product with an opinionated design, which happened to work well for many people. These became the de facto standards. That position of de facto standard is what every open-source project and every commercial product tries to be.

What are the best practices for log management?

Logs record digital actions within your IT system to let you know where errors or unauthorized access attempts originated. However, having only a partial log management plan — or lacking one entirely — can leave you with a mess of unstructured data that doesn’t provide the insights you need. Fortunately, following log management best practices can make tracking your digital actions or modifying your current log management plan a straightforward process.

K3s vs. Talos Linux: What's the difference

Kubernetes has become the go-to container orchestration system for many organizations. But managing Kubernetes clusters can take time and effort, especially for smaller teams or organizations with limited resources. This is where focused Kubernetes distributions like K3s and Talos Linux come in. They offer simplified and streamlined versions of Kubernetes, making it easier to deploy and manage clusters. This blog will introduce you to K3s and Talos Linux and compare their features and capabilities.

6 Steps When Your Website Get's Flagged as "Deceptive"

Seeing your website flagged as deceptive by Google or other search engines is enough to spoil anyone's day. You've spent long hours creating a site, only for users to be informed that it is a cybersecurity risk. But what can you do? Should you scrap the whole thing and start again? Today we'll explore why your website has been flagged as deceptive. We'll also look at what you can do to overcome the issue.

How Treating Testing and Monitoring as Separate Operations is Costing You Money

I’ll get right to the point: Not uniting testing and monitoring is costing you expensive engineering time, sales, and customer confidence. Below you’ll find an all too familiar scenario that outlines the problems of traditional testing and monitoring approaches and what the benefits are of a united approach to testing and monitoring through monitoring as code (MaC).

What to Expect When You Are Expecting: Cribl Data Routed to a Cribl Destination

For so many, the unknown sucks. Knowing or knowing what to expect is best. Why? Because it puts us at ease, and peace and gives us a calm sense of knowing without having experienced it yet. That’s part of my mission here at Cribl. I talk to a lot of people and the one consistent part of these conversations is the unknown.

AI 101: Automating the Mundane

Join Nicholas Wegman, Ph.D., Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence and Alex Barnes, Senior Director of Product Management, in a three-part series that demystifies the science behind Artificial Intelligence (AI) and reveals how it can increase your margin. Taking an insightful journey into its history and present-day market trends, they will discuss why AI may—or may not—represent an ideal solution for every business.

How DevOps is shaping Financial Services #2: The challenges in insurance

In this series of blog posts, we speak with database professionals from Financial Services organizations around the world to better understand how DevOps is shaping the sector. On the way, we dig into key current factors including the rise of technology upstarts in fintech and insurtech, the speed of digital transformation and the ever-increasing threat of cyberattacks.

Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: #27 How to embed HTML images into emails

Today I will speak about another useful Best practice, Tips, and Tricks that you must consider while designing your business processes (Logic Apps): How to embed HTML images into your email using Logic App Designer.