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Effective Dashboards to Jump Start Your IT Monitoring Initiatives

Earlier this year ‘MIT Center For Information Systems Research’ released a new research report on effectively using dashboards to jump-start your digital transformation initiatives. The research team found that companies with top quartile dashboard effectiveness significantly outperformed bottom-quartile companies on internal and external measures of performance. The topics discussed in this report apply well to IT monitoring initiatives as well.

Ask Miss O11y: Not Your Aunt's Tracing

Dear Miss O11y, How is modern observability using tracing, such as Honeycomb, different from the previous distributed tracing software I'm familiar with, like Dapper, at my company? I haven't really been able to wrap my head around Dapper. Does "advanced" observability mean that it's even more complicated than Dapper is? Auntie Alphabet.

Webinar Recap: Best Practices for Right-Sizing and Overhauling Your Architecture

Last week, we hosted a webinar on the easiest way to right-size – and safest way to overhaul – your architecture. One of the scenarios we’re seeing come up more and more with prospects and customers is the need to update your architecture, and particularly your security architecture, as new needs and threats arise. As I’m sure you all know, that can be a real hassle, put a strain on your resources, and put your security posture at risk if it isn’t done well.

Get visibility into AWS Lambda serverless functions with Elastic Observability

Adoption of AWS Lambda functions in cloud-native applications has increased exponentially over the past few years. Serverless functions, such as the AWS Lambda service, provide a high level of abstraction from the underlying infrastructure and orchestration, given these tasks are managed by the cloud provider. Software development teams can then focus on the implementation of business and application logic.

How to prepare for a peering-partner business review

Peering is more than just setting up sessions with any AS that will accept one. Peering can involve long-term relationships that require reviews and joint-planning to grow synergy. A critical milestone in any peering relationship is the business review – and when it comes to business reviews, it’s all about preparation. So where to start?

5 Common Amazon SQS Issues

The simple query service (SQS) was one of the first services AWS offered. It’s a managed queuing service that lets you take pressure from your downstream services. You put your items on the queue, and other services can pull them whenever they have the capacity to work on them. It’s a managed service, so you don’t have to install or maintain the software yourself; you just configure a queue and start pushing to and pulling from it. So SQS is very simple to get started with.

10 things you didn't know about LogQL

For this edition of my ongoing Grafana Loki how-to series, I wanted to offer up some helpful — and perhaps surprising — facts about using LogQL, Loki’s query language. In case you’re new to Grafana Loki, it’s a log aggregation system created in 2018, and the Loki team has worked with the community ever since to introduce new features and make it easier to deploy.