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Grafana usage insights: How to track who is sending what metrics to your stack in Grafana Cloud

We are happy to announce the release of the Grafana usage groups feature in Grafana Cloud. This new feature — which is available in the Grafana Cloud Advanced plan — helps centralized observability teams and administrators track and attribute metrics usage back to groups that exist within a single shared Grafana stack. Ultimately, Grafana usage groups can help with governance and cost control.

GitHub Browser check synchronization goes into public beta

One of our goals here at Checkly is to make it easier for developers to ship excellent software. But let’s face it, getting features out is only a tiny fraction of the story. Fast-moving development teams also break things. And the more things you build, the more things can go wrong. And trust me, they will. This is where API and end-to-end monitoring helps. Define automated test suites that check all your properties constantly and guarantee that everything’s up and running. All the time.

Major Hosted VoIP Provider, bravad TI, Choose Obkio for End-User Network Monitoring

Learn how Obkio works with technology agency & major hosted VoIP Service Provider, bravad TI, to create a streamlined network monitoring and troubleshooting process to optimize VoIP performance & improve the end user experience.

Snooze your alert policies in Cloud Monitoring

Does your development team want to snooze alerts during non-business hours? Or proactively prevent the creation of expected alerts for an upcoming expected maintenance window? Cloud Alerting in Google's Cloud operations suite now supports the ability to snooze alert policies for a given period of time. You can create a Snooze by providing specific alert policies and a time period. During this window, if the alert policy is violated, no incidents or notifications are created.

Performance Monitoring with API

If you are in a room with 20 engineers and you ask, “explain what an API is to a non-technical person”, you will get 20 different analogies. An API is like the on button to your TV connecting you to a variety of shows and systems, or an API is like a waiter taking your order and serving you from the kitchen. An API is like a library card catalog, or it’s simply a tool that connects you to other tools.

Seven Tools to Help You Become a Better Serverless Developer

Serverless technologies let us do more with less effort, time and energy. They let us focus on creating user value and let the cloud handle undifferentiated heavy-lifting like scaling and securing the underlying infrastructure that runs our code. Serverless technologies have allowed me to accomplish tasks as a solo engineer that used to take a whole team of engineers to accomplish, and I’m able to complete these tasks in a fraction of the time and cost to my customers.

Citrix Monitoring Masterclass with George Spiers - Q&A

Citrix monitoring refers to the ability to monitor Citrix services end-to-end. It includes the ability to monitor user experience – from logon time to application launch time to screen refresh latency so administrators can easily monitor and track if they are meeting their service levels (SLAs).

Coastal municipalities monitor their beaches to measure the environmental impact of tourism

The Spanish tourism sector is preparing for a record summer in which they hope to emulate the summer periods prior to the coronavirus pandemic. The government has already advanced that 90% of the foreign tourism that visited the country in 2019 will be recovered. That year, 84 million foreigners were received, a figure that is expected to be reached this year, taking advantage of the high temperatures and the national tourist offer.

"Hey Avantra, refresh my QA systems"

I remember just about three years ago sitting in a companywide meeting in a conference room at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Lisbon, Portugal (Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisboa). Our CTO, Bernd Engist, was giving us a presentation about some new features we had recently developed on automating the start/stop process of an SAP system.

Announcing the Winners of the Cribl Packs Contest

It’s time for the Black Hat conference in the United States, so we’re onsite meeting with customers and prospects looking to untangle their data from the grip of vendors holding their data hostage. We aim to start a rebellion against this lock-in and encourage customers to focus on radical choice and control with their observability data. Pushing back against “The Empire” is challenging, but you can achieve it with Cribl Stream and Edge.