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Reliable systems are vital to meeting customer expectations. Downtime not only hurts a company’s bottom line but can be detrimental to reputation. Our goal at Gremlin is to help enterprises build more reliable systems using Chaos Engineering. Whether your infrastructure is deployed on bare metal in a corporate-owned data center or as Kubernetes-orchestrated microservices in a public cloud, chaos experiments can help you find system weaknesses early, before they affect customers.

One of the hidden gems within eG Enterprise is the ability to perform remote actions and automated tasks using built-in functionality. In conversations with customers and community peers, I often get asked why we at eG Innovations don’t offer functionality in regard to adding custom scripts and a community database of shared scripts.

Microsoft recently announced general availability of Azure VM Insights, aka Azure Monitor for VM. This service is basically a set of features that allow you to monitor your VMs in more detail, from collecting the telemetry from your VM to displaying it meaningfully – all with a single click. I am satisfied with Azure VM Insights for the most part, but I also have some mixed feelings about it. Read on to find out why.

The 7.1 stable release builds on the major developments in Grafana 7.0. Here are some features we’re excited about in Grafana 7.1.

From smart thermostats and grocery store checkouts to public utility infrastructures and industrial manufacturing lines, the Internet of Things (IoT) is all around us—and growing larger every day. But with this rapid growth comes a number of operational challenges: IoT devices collect a large amount of data, and are often distributed across harsh, ever-changing environments.

We’re excited about today’s release of Grafana 7.1, which extends Grafana’s built-in InfluxDB datasource to run queries in both the Flux language and InfluxQL. This means it’s super easy to connect Grafana to InfluxDB — whether you use InfluxDB 1.8 or 2.0, Flux or InfluxQL. Because this InfluxDB datasource is built into Grafana 7.1, there is no separate plugin to download and install.

A video chat with the developers who bring right-sized cloud costing information in real-time. It all started with a casual conversation about the cloud and infrastructure monitoring among the team at Galileo and our parent company, The ATS Group. From there, it quickly evolved into a discussion on how we can alleviate a source of frustration for many of our customers.

A website downtime for any online business can be a time of great concern, anxiety, stress, and panic. So many questions will go through the mind of the website owner, such as; A website downtime is indeed a nervy period for any online business, but most especially for small and medium scale businesses still trying to find their feet in a highly competitive and unforgiving business environment.

First thing’s first: existing users will be pleased to know that upgrading is easy, so there's no need to be concerned about the upgrade process. In fact, Sensu Go 6 (arriving July 23, 2020) is a drop-in replacement for Sensu Go 5. Sensu was originally designed to be a single-tenant system, relying heavily on configuration management tools to move at the speed of automation — AKA, to keep configuration up to date to accurately reflect the state of things.

A while back I talked about how big companies have started using serverless in production and how this is a clear sign that we will see more implementation of the serverless infrastructure in the near future. I’d like to take some time today and talk about one of the companies that are using serverless in production: Coca-cola.