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You can now customize the names of services in StatusGator

StatusGator is the easiest way to publish a unified status page featuring the status of all the services you depend on. Our public status dashboards have become a favorite feature allowing schools, startups, and enterprises alike to publish a quick and easy page showing the status of all their cloud services. One commonly requested feature has been the ability to customize the name of each status page listed in your dashboard.

How to extend the Geth collector

This is the the last of a 2-part blog post series regarding Netdata and Geth. If you missed the first, be sure to check it out here. Geth is short for Go-Ethereum and is the official implementation of the Ethereum Client in Go. Currently it’s one of the most widely used implementations and a core piece of infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem. With this proof of concept I wanted to showcase how easy it really is to gather data from any Prometheus endpoint and visualize them in Netdata.

Zap Bugs! Test pre-launch Puppet Practice Labs

This past June, Puppet launched Puppet Practice Labs — free, hands-on, interactive tutorials you work through right in your browser — no downloads required. We launched with four step-by-step how-tos on using Puppet Enterprise and Bolt. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive. The biggest request we heard? More, please. Good news! We have a whole slew of new Puppet Practice Labs in development. We want to give you a sneak peek, but there’s a catch.

How Do You Know Your Website is Down?

Did you know that California was one of the earliest adopters in the world for earthquake automated detection? Though rudimentary, early systems were literally horns strapped to government buildings, the idea was simple: sound an alarm the moment that an earthquake could be confirmed. The critical period of warning residents get can prove the difference between finding shelter and securing your family. In a land where earthquakes level buildings, detection was critical.

Introducing our new support bubble

Like most SaaS products, Oh Dear is a living platform. We add new features proposed by our users, fix bugs that get reported, and regrettable also sometimes introduce new bugs. Most users use email to communicate with us. Even though sending an email is often perceived as friction-free, it can be a minor hurdle. We've introduced a little support bubble at the bottom of every page to make it easier for our users to pass us feature requests and report bugs.

3 Ways to Use the xMatters and Google Operations Suite Integration

Not too long ago, you would have needed development experience to oversee the delivery of scalable and reliable software. But with the rise of low-code and no-code tools, that requirement is now obsolete. What used to be hours of coding has turned into a few minutes of dragging and dropping.

Managing IoT Software Updates at Scale: Our Acquisition of Upswift

With the increasing proliferation of connected devices, it might be assumed that deploying software to devices, providing incremental updates, application security and IoT device management at scale are all rolled into companies’ DevOps pipelines as one big happy portfolio. Sadly, this has not been the case to date. Most IoT software updates and management solutions today are operated in a complete silo from corporations’ DevOps processes.