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Icinga Web - Not just Black and White

Most of you know that Icinga Web can be adjusted by themes. Some of you also have made some! Icinga Web itself comes with several themes since the early days. Now with the next upcoming major update v2.10 we’ll take themes to their next evolution. But since we’ve postponed this feature, much additional work has gone into it, which I want to outline today. There will be some general hints for module/theme development as well.

Ask Miss O11y: Making Sense of OpenTelemetry-Tracer and TracerProvider

OpenTelemetry is a strong standard for instrumentation because it is built of careful, well-thought-out abstractions created by experts in the space. OpenTelemetry feels painful to start using because it’s full of abstractions that make sense to experts in the space. For a developer who wants to think about their own software and not spend a month becoming an expert in telemetry, this is hard. For high-level conceptual description, there’s the OpenTelemetry specification.

Best Splunk Alternatives [2023]

Every business from large enterprises through to small startups needs some level of log management in their day to day operations. For large-scale enterprises, Splunk has quickly become one of the most popular log management solutions globally. Splunk was developed for enterprise-level log analysis and Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM). The tool can also be used by medium-size enterprises as long as your organisation generates large volumes of machine data and log files.

3 ways automation can improve ITSM and customer service

IT service management (ITSM)—the management and support of IT services—is vital for good customer service. It encompasses problem management, incident management, change and release management, and service-level management. Because it’s an integral part of customer service, it’s important to keep it optimized and streamlined. Here are three ways automation can help with those efforts.

Low latency Linux for industrial embedded systems - Part I

Welcome to this mini blog series on the low latency Linux kernel for industrial embedded systems! The real-time patch, which is not fully upstream yet, has had many developers wonder about stable alternatives for their projects adopting an embedded Linux operating system (OS) with latency requirements in the milliseconds’ range. The low-latency Ubuntu Linux kernel from Canonical is less costly to maintain than real-time alternatives.

Getting Started with Arduino and InfluxDB

Time series data differs from “normal” data in an interesting way. The essential characteristic is that the data’s primary point of reference is a timestamp showing at which point in time a sample of data was measured. Time series databases like InfluxDB are helpful for situations that involve this kind of data.

Integration Options with SIGNL4

SIGNL4 integrates with various backend systems like IT monitoring, service management, IoT systems, sensors, etc. to automatically alert users and teams about certain incidents. A list of selected tools along with integration descriptions is available in our integrations section. How can you integrate SIGNL4 with your own tools? In the following we list some options offering different levels of sophistication.

Making a More Accessible navigation

I’m Tim, a Product Design Manager at LogDNA. My team is responsible for creating a beautiful and easy-to-navigate user interface so that you can easily access, and gain value from, your logs. We’ve been working on making our product’s navigation more accessible and are rolling out a mixture of subtle and more noticeable changes.

JavaScript Mutators & The Programmable Observability Pipeline

JavaScript mutators shine among the improvements in Sensu Go 6.5 – they are both more effective and more efficient at transforming Sensu event data than pipe mutators. This post explores the advantages of JavaScript mutators and includes an example, but first, a brief review. In the Sensu observability pipeline, checks generate events, which Sensu then filters, transforms, and processes. A mutator is a component that transforms the event data.

Building a result oriented digital marketing campaign in 10 steps

Digital marketing has become a big part of marketing strategies in modern and growing businesses. Implementing digital advertisements correctly can result in a significant increase in the company’s online presence and visibility throughout a much wider audience that fosters higher conversions and sales. For a digital marketing campaign to work for you, all its elements – its design, channel and messaging must be set right.