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In this article, we will explain how to monitor AWS SQS with Prometheus. To monitor AWS SQS, we will leverage the data offered by CloudWatch exporting the metrics to Prometheus using the YACE exporter (Yet Another CloudWatch Exporter). Finally, we will dive into what to monitor and what to alert. AWS SQS (Simple Queue Service) has gained popularity as a way to communicate and decouple asynchronous applications, specifically for its easy integration with AWS Lambda functions.

Very often, we face situations when the website we are trying to access refuses to load. In addition, repeatedly refreshing the site also does not bring out any positive results. This is when you understand that there is something amiss with the server and that it might be down.

Grafana v7.4 has been released! The big news for Grafana 7.4 is the next-generation graph panel called time series, which is in beta. A high-performance visualization based on the uPlot library, it uses the new panel architecture introduced in Grafana 7.0 and integrates with field options, overrides, and transformations.

A few lines of code in your website’s header can make or break your security and your customer’s trust. We know how important that is to you, so at RapidSpike we’re here to empower you with data, protecting your website from the top down, and today we’re talking about the very top — your homepage header and its precious metadata.

Exoprise CloudReady provides early detection of mission critical mail outages. On February 3rd, Microsoft had a mail delivery delay, that caused mail delivery failures and an outage. While CloudReady detected the Exchange Online mail delivery error almost 2 hours in advance, Microsoft did finally publish an incident to track the outage.

Despite a halt in travel in 2020, InfluxData made incredible progress reaching users around the world through the new InfluxData Authorized Channel Partner program. The program features a robust ecosystem of distributor and reseller partners that help to support InfluxDB users around the world. In 2020, we welcomed 23 channel partners, including three regional distributors and 20 resellers in the Asia Pacific, EMEA and North American regions.

We are pleased to share with you that the Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ was granted authority to operate at a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate impact level. With this authorization, many more organizations can now use Sumo Logic to get real-time insights into complex on-premises and cloud environments, and further strengthen their security and compliance, while optimizing their operational performance.

We take an API-first approach to our product at Sumo Logic—everything you can do in the UI can be done via API. I talked about several use cases for automation with Sumo Logic APIs in my presentation at Illuminate 2020. Here’s a recap of what I covered.

There is a tremendous amount of uncertainty for anything and everything when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine. The standards of who is eligible to get the vaccine (and when!) differs from state to state and is a moving target to say the least. While some states have already begun to distribute the vaccine according to their state mandated guidelines, others are struggling to define what those mandates are exactly.

As the number of connected personal and IoT devices skyrockets across the world, the demand for high-speed, high-performance networks continues to climb and transform how people and businesses connect. Over the years, this technological growth has triggered the development of different types of networks to meet shifting demands, and it’s likely that with future technological advancement, more network topologies will continue to emerge.