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Autonomous Testing: The Top 5 Tools and Their Benefits

Software testing is a rapidly evolving landscape where automation has replaced traditional manual practices significantly in recent years. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) advancements introduced a groundbreaking approach to software testing known as autonomous testing. This article aims to provide a comprehensive guide on autonomous testing tools, highlighting their benefits, and the top tools available.

Upgraded role-based access control brings more visibility - and control - to incident management at your organization

We’ve long believed that incidents (and technical team cultures) improve when more people are empowered to declare, follow, and contribute to their resolution. But not everyone in an organization needs to be able to manage the processes, rules, and settings a company enforces for their incident programs.

SD-WAN Monitoring: Why Edge-to-Edge Coverage Isn't Enough

In recent years, network operations teams have had to contend with several critical challenges, including: In response to these challenges, teams are increasingly turning to SD-WAN. The market for SD-WAN is massive, and continuing to grow, potentially reaching $47 billion by 2031. Through SD-WAN technologies, organizations are able to realize a number of benefits. However, these benefits aren’t a sure thing. In fact, many teams encounter challenges with their SD-WAN implementations.

Quick Fix: Updating Telegraf Configs to Send Data to InfluxDB 3.0

We recently introduced a new version of InfluxDB, rewritten from the ground up to improve performance across the board. As with any undertaking of this nature, developers will need to make some adjustments to their applications in order to incorporate the new database. We even faced this challenge internally. We had many Telegraf instances sending data to legacy versions of InfluxDB.

4 Ways Automation Can Help Airlines Prepare for a Smoother Winter 2023

How can anyone forget the photos and images of mounds of luggage sitting wherever they could find a spot at most major airports, back during the winter storm of 2022? And what about the thousands of stranded passengers in dismay during the holidays, with plans and gifts that literally couldn’t get off the ground?

Lightrun Attendance at FinOps X 2023: Unveiling Key Insights, Highlights and Takeaways from the Show

This week Lightrun attended the annual FinOps X event. The event was sold out and packed with great speakers, practitioners, and amazing atmosphere. Compared to last year which had over 300 attendees, this year the event brought over 1200! Above is a screenshot taken from the venue entrance reminding the audience with the core principles of FinOps.

What is High Cardinality Data?

While reading a GitHub issue on the OpenTelemetry Collector about trying to send two versions of a metric, one with higher and one with lower cardinality, it occurred to me that we’ve never written on this blog about what is high-cardinality data exactly and how it matters to your OpenTelemetry observability. High-cardinality data refers to a dataset or data attribute that contains a large number of distinct values relative to the total number of data points.