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How Metrics Behave in Honeycomb

Honeycomb has the ability to receive events from applications. These events can take the shape of Honeycomb wide events, OpenTelemetry trace spans, and OpenTelemetry metrics. Because Honeycomb’s backend is very flexible, these OpenTelemetry signals fit in just fine—but sometimes, they have a few quirks. Let’s dive into using metrics the Honeycomb way and cover a few optimizations.

Accelerating R&D in pharma with Elasticsearch, ESRE, LLMs, and LangChain - Part 1

A comprehensive guide to support faster drug innovation and discovery in the pharmaceutical industry with generative AI/LLMs, custom models, and the Elasticsearch Relevance Engine (ESRE) Faster drug discovery leading to promising drug candidates is the main objective of the pharmaceutical industry. To support that goal, the industry has to find better ways to utilize both public and proprietary data — at speed and in a safe way.

3 Key Insights from the Gartner Market Guide for SaaS Management Platforms

As the world continues to shift toward a remote-first or hybrid work model that relies heavily on cloud applications and SaaS, new business challenges have emerged for the IT industry. One of these challenges we’ve been tracking here at Auvik is the lack of management for SaaS applications and the risks this kind of shadow IT can bring to a business. That’s why we think the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for SaaS Management Platforms (December 2022) is so critical.

Replay Data From Object Storage for Long-term Incident Investigations

Psst, hey pal, would you like to buy a time machine? I am not talking about some H.G. Wells monstrosity where you somehow end up being chased by dinosaurs or become your own grandparent. But a time machine for your observability data. License costs and tool performance often keep organizations from ingesting all their data or require them to limit data retention time. Security incidents are often discovered long after these retention times are exhausted or require data that was never ingested.

CNAPP: A Comprehensive Solution for Cloud-Native Application Security

A unique approach to security is needed when developing cloud-native apps that use microservices, containers, and serverless computing. The specific security issues that these cloud-native architectures provide are the focus of CNAPPs. Traditional security solutions are frequently created to protect on-premises infrastructure and applications. However, new security strategies are required due to the adoption of cloud-native architectures and the migration to cloud computing.

Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: Nested JSON schema validation

Welcome again to another Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: Solutions for Seamless Integration! This time we selected a problem related to a few tips and tricks I have been writing Message validation inside Logic Apps or JSON schema validation. One of our previous dilemmas addressed this complex topic: Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: How to validate if a JSON property is not an empty string? , of course, describing and addressing a different problem.

How to visualize time series from SQL databases with Grafana

Relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and others have a wealth of time series data locked inside of them. Often this data can be used to enhance observability dashboards, or keep track of important application factors, like how many users have signed up for a service. In this article, we’re going to show you how to visualize any time series from any SQL database in Grafana using the time series visualization.

The Ultimate List of C# Tools: IDEs, Profilers, Automation Tools, and More

C# is a widely used programming language in enterprises, especially for those that are heavily Microsoft-dependent. This language comprises a lot of tools with individual strengths. Here, we list C# tools for IDEs, profilers, automation tools, and more. If you build apps using C#, you most likely use Visual Studio and have explored some of its extensions to supercharge your development. However, this list of C# tools might just change the way you write C# code for good.

Getting the Most Out of Your Azure VMs

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) represent the power of cloud computing, making the infrastructure of the digital age accessible to every business. With Azure VMs, Microsoft has democratized access to virtualized environments, allowing businesses to focus on building their applications without worrying about the underlying hardware. Azure VMs are a part of Microsoft’s Azure platform, one of the most comprehensive cloud platforms on the market.

Integrating BindPlane Into Your Splunk Environment

Splunk is a popular logging, and in the case of Splunk Cloud also metrics, platform. The BindPlane Agent is capable of integrating with Splunk; both for incoming telemetry to a Splunk Indexer and outgoing telemetry from a Splunk Forwarder. By integrating in this manner, telemetry not natively supported by Splunk can be sent in; and going the other way the telemetry can be sent to other platforms.