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We often get asked, what's the best place to get started with OpenTelemetry - host metrics, traces, or even logs? Hosts Nočnica Mellifera and Pranay will talk about taking your first steps to gathering OpenTelemetry data Below is the recording and an edited transcript of the conversation. Find the conversation transcript below.

Dr. Panos Patros, CPEng This is the second and final part in our exploration of must-know OOP patterns, and covers the composite bridge pattern, iterator pattern, and lock design pattern. Find part one here covering extension, singleton, exception shielding and object pool patterns. Object-oriented design is a fundamental part of modern software engineering that all developers need to understand.

Dashboards are great ways to visualize different KPIs in a single place. Metrics from all over your system can be framed together and viewed on a single screen, helping to correlate them and reducing the overall effort of analysis. But when it comes to Grafana vs. SolarWinds, which one is better? It is often difficult to choose between their dashboarding capabilities. Both tools provide their own visualizations and help bring out interactive dashboards for users to use.

In today’s world, with Large tech giants and businesses looking forward to moving toward serverless architecture, there has been a significant demand for scaling the applications. It’s therefore no surprise that millions of companies worldwide have adopted, or are planning on migrating to a Kubernetes and AWS Lambda solution to take their serverless applications to the next level.

We’ve all been surprised by our cloud monitoring bill at one time or another. If you are a BindPlane OP customer ingesting Host Metrics into Google Cloud Monitoring, you may be wondering which metrics are impacting your bill the most. You may have metrics enabled that aren’t crucial to your business, driving unnecessary costs. How do we verify that and remediate?

It has been a veeeeery long time since we discussed a technical concept from an ingenious allegory. Many people send us emails asking us why, and we have to admit that… it’s true, everything is quite more fun with fantastic allegories. So be it then! At the request of our fans. Let’s talk today about ITSM and Monitoring Support through an invented event from which we can then draw a technical lesson.

Anomaly detection is one of the most common problems that Splunk users are interested in solving via machine learning. This is highly intuitive, as one of the main reasons our Splunk customers are ingesting, indexing, and searching their systems’ logs and metrics is to find problems in their systems, either before, during, or after the problem takes place. In particular, one of the types of anomaly detection that our customers are interested in is time series anomaly detection.

IT operations, or ITOps, refers to the processes and services administered by an organization's IT staff to its internal or external clients. Every organization that uses computers has a way of meeting the IT needs of their employees or clients, whether or not they call it ITOps. In a typical enterprise environment, however, ITOps is a distinct group within the IT department. The IT operations team plays a critical role in accomplishing business goals.

What does the Rasmussen model teach us about Site Reliability Engineering?

A common question we get asked is “what client library should I use with InfluxDB 3.0?” This question isn’t as simple as it may seem. It can get confusing when deciding which client library to use while developing applications to write to and query from InfluxDB. There are numerous options to choose from and the answer may differ based on the following criteria: At first, this seems like an easy answer.