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How to easily configure Grafana Loki and Promtail to receive logs from Heroku

Heroku is a cloud provider well known for its simplicity and its support out of the box for multiple programming languages. When thinking about consuming logs from applications hosted in Heroku, Grafana Loki is a great choice. But in the past, shipping logs from Heroku to any Loki instance required ad-hoc scripts to fiddle with Heroku’s logs format and send them. This can be a time-consuming experience.

How to Make Your Status Page Stand Out From The Rest

If you’ve ever had a website or service go down as you were using it, then you’ll understand the irritation of a generic error message and a plea to “Be patient!” (if you’re lucky). It’s almost like they know they’re not telling you the full story. The companies that are on top of their outage game will have a prepared link or redirect to their Status Page (or at least, have one prominently displayed on their pages and social media) for times like these.

5 Technology Challenges of Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions are complex. So complex, in fact, that up to 90% fail. One of the biggest risks for M&A failure comes during technology integration. At this stage, enterprise security, compliance, and employee productivity can all be irreparably disrupted. IT needs to walk a fine line between staying on schedule and maintaining stability.

Introducing the CircleCI Config SDK

We are excited to announce the new CircleCI Config SDK is now available as an open-source TypeScript library. Developers can now write and manage their CircleCI config.yml files using TypeScript and JavaScript. For developers used to the ecosystem and flexibility of a full-fledged programming language, sometimes YAML can feel limiting or intimidating. With the Config SDK you can define and generate your YAML config from type-safe and annotated JavaScript.

What is a service mesh?

The rise of the containerized software environment has left archaic, monolithic application structures behind. Cloud-native applications running via a range of containers, or individual, self-contained software packages, are now the norm. Platforms and tools like Kubernetes and Docker allow developers to create apps that work irrespective of device or operating systems, vastly reducing time to market and increasing potential user base numbers.

Take control of LM Envision with the LogicMonitor REST API

We are living in an era where everything depends upon data, any application you are using or that you are creating is going to either consume or create data. LogicMonitor REST API makes it easy for customers who prefer to use APIs to access features without performing activities manually via a UI. LM API allows end-users to perform several activities with added security and reduced efforts. As of today, we are offering v1, and v2, and now have v3 as base versions of API & SDK going further.

Fast track video series: Integrate ticketing and messaging tools with BigPanda

With distributed IT Operations becoming the norm, most enterprise teams struggle with communication and collaboration within and across the organization. Without the proper tools, staying on top of incidents can be challenging, quickly resulting in outages taking longer to resolve. The overall effect: increase in downtime-related costs and decrease in performance and availability of services making mean time to resolve (MTTR) worse.