Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Whether you’re a product owner, project manager, or the CEO of the company, understanding how your team plans for and achieves project milestones is crucial to reaching long-term and sustainable success.

There’s a famous Go proverb that states: Don’t communicate by sharing memory; share memory by communicating. At GopherCon UK 2019, Björn Rabenstein, an engineer at Grafana and a Prometheus developer, told the audience that when it comes to observations for Prometheus histograms, that saying doesn’t hold true.

Alert noise is a very common on-call complaint leading to fatigue and on-call burnout. This article is an attempt at helping folks address this problem.

Providing support to customers has a cost to the company; it doesn’t matter whether the support is for internal or external users. When we talk of serving internal customers, ITSM obviously comes into the picture. ITSM is an important IT investment that has a direct bearing on the quality of an organization’s IT services, but has a significant cost attached to it. The cost aspect of an ITSM solution can be managed using a self-service portal. Want to know how?

At Codefresh, we know that any CI/CD solution must be attractive to both developers and operators (SREs). One of the major advantages of Codefresh is the graphical user interface that includes dashboards for Kubernetes and Helm deployments. These graphical dashboards are very useful to developers who are just getting started with deployments and pipelines.

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is an amazing and reliable cloud service provider. AWS, like Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, provides everything you need to host an application without having to worry about running the underlying servers and network configuration. Everything you need to quickly begin hosting is provided as a packaged services.

ChatOps is about bringing conversations, tools, files, and automation into a single space. Mattermost has a number of plugins that support ChatOps and real-time DevOps workflows through integrations with developer tools like Jira, GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, and Jenkins. At the core is the Mattermost Server.

You may already know it if you follow us on a regular basis: in Pandora FMS blog we love to look ahead to the future. And we have to tell you a secret: next to our coat rack, locked up in a dresser, we have a gleaming crystal ball that we check from time to time. To activate it, you just have to pronounce the word “monitoring” in a secret language that I will not reveal here, and that is when it lights up and shows us its knowledge.

We just shipped three updates based on customer feedback.

Curious about how to write more idiomatic concurrent code in Go? It’s not always easy or intuitive, even if you’ve done lots of concurrent programming in other languages. I’ve been lucky to have worked in a well-written code base, and had the expert advice of Beats core area lead Steffen Siering along the way. In this post I’ll walk you through how we implemented a new scheduler for Heartbeat that is part of our upcoming 7.6.0 release.