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Proactively monitor service performance with SLO alerts

Service level objectives (SLOs) state your team’s goals for maintaining the reliability of your services. Adopting SLOs is an SRE best practice because it can help you ensure that your services perform well and consistently deliver value to users. But to gain the greatest benefit from your SLOs, you need ongoing visibility into how well your services are performing relative to your objectives.

Top Prometheus Interview Questions

If you are an engineer searching for a new role that involves a high level of knowledge on the monitoring stack Prometheus then you will likely wish to brush up on your knowledge of Prometheus ahead of your interview. In this guide, you will find a list of the most popular questions that are most likely to be asked to candidates looking to use Prometheus as part of their daily monitoring stack within their next role.

3 Ways to Lower Backup Costs for Remote and Hybrid Workers

With the surge of remote workers and a need for increased flexibility, the traditional workplace is a thing of the past. According to Slack’s Future-Forum Pulse Report, the percentage of people working in hybrid and remote arrangements has increased to 58% in the United States. This means that organizations will need to adapt to a hybrid model to maximize employee productivity while supporting collaboration in and out of the office.

An Introduction to Patch Management

Patch management is the process of acquiring and applying updates to software. This is an essential part of IT Asset Management. A patch manager controls the deployment of updates to operating systems and other applications on the network. In this article we will cover the following topics: If you want to learn the key aspects of patch management and the benefits it brings along to organization, then this is the article for you.

8 Best File Transfer Services in 2022

You have a file and you need to send it. Email is the obvious choice, but it's sensitive and you know nothing sent via email is 100% secure. What are your options? You could load the file to a password-protected USB and mail it physically, fax it perhaps, or, the best choice, find an encrypted file sending service. There are several great, private file sending services on the market today, all with their own strengths and weaknesses.

LogRhythm Cloud: Too Little, Too Late

Over the last 12 months, we’ve seen growing momentum around several disruptive trends in the cloud SIEM market. One of the most pervasive and obvious developments for Logz.io is the frequency with which we encounter customers seeking to replace dated and legacy on-premises SIEMs with a solution such as our Cloud SIEM. The traditional provider that comes up most often is LogRhythm—for numerous different reasons.

Building a quick Reddit Blazor client without Reddit's API

When developing the new exception landing pages we recently launched (like insert exception link here), I wanted to pull some statistics from Reddit. While looking through various ways to integrate, I found an easy approach that I want to share with you in this post. You probably already know Reddit, the highly active social news aggregation and discussion forum. I've found myself using Reddit more and more over the last couple of years, with the dotnet subreddit in particular.

Great customer experience is easier than you think

Lionel Ritchie thinks Sunday morning is easy. Ella Fitzgerald thinks living is easy when it’s summertime. Loving is easy too, according to Rex Orange County. I haven’t heard anyone sing about customer experience just yet (Alexa?). But every time I preorder my Starbucks latte so it’s waiting for me at the store on my way to work, I’m reminded just how important easy is. If easy is the on/off switch for great experience, then speed controls the volume.