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How Many Metrics? A Guide to Estimating the Size of Your System

Our hosted metrics offering, Grafana Cloud, is billed based on usage; a common question we get is “How much will it cost to monitor N servers?” We charge $49/month for every 3,000 active series or 18,000 data points per minute (dpm), whichever is higher. To help you understand what that translates to in terms of how much storage you need, here’s a rough guide to estimating the size of your system.

Monitoring and incident management: a winning combination

Monitoring systems gather and log a wide range of performance data on a diverse range of targets—from applications to user experience, networks, servers, and more. Usually, monitoring is conducted under runtime conditions, but synthetic monitoring can also be used to simulate loads and test the resilience of web services, for example.

Git Dos and Don'ts

It’s no surprise to learn that the team at GitKraken is passionate about Git. So passionate, in fact, that we created an educational database featuring our Learning Git with GitKraken YouTube series, educational white papers, cheat sheets, and more. And our partners at Syncfusion are no different. In a previous article, Bharat Dwarkani, technical product manager at Syncfusion, describes how the Gitflow model has simplified his organization’s development and release processes.

Track Project Milestones in GitKraken Issue Boards

GitKraken issue boards are designed to make developers more successful with intuitive project management and issue tracking. Features like Slack integration and GitHub pull request linking are just two recent examples of how the GitKraken team is constantly updating this product to enhance productivity and organization for individual developers and teams. Our latest Glo Boards release is no different; we bring you dashboards and milestones!

8 ways to speed up serverless development

There is a paradox at the heart of serverless. While it’s promoted as a very agile way to develop, a way to push your product as fast as possible to your customers, many development teams find it really difficult to work fast. Why does this happen and can we solve the issue? Let’s start with what makes serverless such a powerful paradigm. Serverless rests on three legs, each of which contributes to the agility that serverless is known for.

Connect the Right Teams and Work Together to Quickly Resolve Customer Issues

Today at PagerDuty Summit 2019, we announced PagerDuty for Customer Service—a powerful new way to connect Customer Service teams to engineering and IT teams. We were also excited to debut two new partner integrations with Zendesk and Salesforce Service Cloud, and we can’t wait to show users how PagerDuty and our customer service ecosystem partners help connect the right teams so they can work together and resolve issues quickly to reduce customer impact.

Summit Day One: Delivering New Machine Learning Capabilities to Cut Costs and Outages

At PagerDuty, we continually innovate every month (check out our What’s New page for the latest updates). But while we ship product continuously, we also save a plethora of new and improved capabilities to share with our customers at PagerDuty Summit, our annual customer event.