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10 Best Open-Source Monitoring Tools for DevOps in 2024

We're StatusPal. We help DevOps and SRE streamline incident and maintenance communication with a powerful status page that integrates nicely with your monitoring and observability tools. Check us out!. In 2024, monitoring is essential to modern DevOps teams' work. DevOps teams need reliable and flexible tools to effectively monitor and manage complex systems that can provide real-time insights into system performance, availability, and security.

Open Source Compliance: Tools, Software + How Configuration Management Streamlines Compliance in OSS Technologies

Security and compliance are important in any organization. And most organizations use open source software (OSS) somewhere in their application stack. Open source compliance keeps OSS technologies secure by making sure they’re used in a way that aligns with security best practices, internal policies, and regulatory expectations.

Telco-grade Sylva-compliant Canonical platforms

In December 2023, Canonical joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe to provide fully open-source and upstream telco platform solutions to the project. Sylva aims to tackle the fragmentation in telco cloud technologies and the vendor lock-in caused by proprietary platform solutions, by defining a common validation software framework for telco core and edge clouds.

Top 4 Open Source Load Balancers of 2024

In the network infrastructure, load balancers play a major role in distributing incoming traffic across multiple servers, optimal performance, scalability, and reliability. Choosing the right load balancer is important as organizations meet the demands of the digital era, characterized by increasing data volumes and user expectations. Open-source software offers many options, providing flexibility, transparency, and community-driven support.

How the open source Caddy server uses Grafana Cloud for full-stack observability

Mohammed Al Sahaf serves as Technical Product Manager at Samsung Electronics Saudi Arabia. Outside his day job, he serves with the Caddy team to tackle the web of problems facing web servers in the third millennium. Mohammed is the author of Kadeessh, formerly caddy-ssh, and the maintainer of numerous Caddy modules. When he isn’t programming, he is trying to catch up on life and sleep with the help of coffee.

Top 13 Open Source APM Tools [2024 Guide]

Choosing the right APM tool is critical. How do you know which is the right one for you? Here are the top 13 open source application performance monitoring(APM) tools which can solve your monitoring needs. Open source APM tools have added benefits over their SaaS counterparts. Open source tools are more transparent as you can verify its source code, and you can use it without going through the pains of taking approvals usually required for using a third-party vendor tool.

Codefresh in the Wild: building Starbase-80

This article is part of our series “Codefresh in the Wild” which shows how we picked public open-source projects and deployed them to Kubernetes with our own pipelines. This week’s pick is starbase-80, a Kubernetes “homepage” application. We will use various tools such as GitHub, Docker, AWS, Codefresh, Argo CD, Terraform. This article chronicles how we integrated all those tools together in order to build an end-to-end deployment workflow.

Codefresh in the Wild: Building draw.io

This article is part of our series “Codefresh in the Wild” which shows how we picked public open-source projects and deployed them to Kubernetes with our own pipelines. This week’s pick is draw.io an online application for drawing different types of diagrams. We will use several tools such as GitHub, Docker, Helm Codefresh, Argo Rollouts, Argo CD. This guide chronicles how we integrated all those tools together in order to build an end-to-end Kubernetes deployment workflow.

Codefresh in the Wild: building Pastr

This article is part of our series “Codefresh in the Wild” which shows how we picked public open-source projects and deployed them to Kubernetes with our own pipelines. We will use several tools such as GitHub, Docker, AWS, Codefresh, Argo CD, Kustomize. This guide chronicles how we integrated all those tools together in order to build an end-to-end Kubernetes deployment workflow.

6 Best Open Source Status Page Alternatives for 2024

With so much reliance on online services and applications these days, a status page is essential to a business, its support and IT teams. It’s a key component in your incident communication strategy. Communicating the status of your website or service to users (particularly customers) creates trust and keeps them updated—especially during downtimes. Plus, it saves you from sending out emails or using other time-consuming methods to provide status updates.