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How to monitor Couchbase with Google Cloud Ops

You can now easily monitor couchbase metrics and logs in Google Cloud. All of our logging and monitoring Google Cloud contributions are available through the Google Ops Agent GitHub repository. You can check it out here! The Google Ops Agent uses the built-in Prometheus exporter and receiver to monitor Couchbase sources running Couchbase 7.0. You can find documentation on the Prometheus exporter in the Couchbase documentation.

Round Robin Escalation: An Efficient Way to Distribute On-Call Responsibilities

Nowadays, organizations address a high volume of incidents everyday. With so much happening, responders can be overwhelmed by the volume of incidents and may end up de-prioritizing certain important incidents. Hence, it is important to have an efficient on-call scheduling and escalation process in place. In this blog, we will explore how Round Robin Escalations can help distribute on-call load and set up efficient on-call schedules. This blog covers the following pointers.

Bridging the gap between Engineering and Customer Support during incidents

Customer trust and satisfaction are the most important currency your business can own. No matter how brilliant your product, without happy customers your business will struggle. When everything is running smoothly, it’s easy to feel that heady dose of customer love. It’s when things break during an incident that these relationships are really put to the test.

All you need to know about the Release Management Process

Release Management is one of those processes in software development that most of us would benefit from doubt. However, we think the process is good enough and needs a few tweaks to improve. The release management process combines the release management procedure, the related project management process, and the people involved. The release management process can also be referred to as the release management life cycle or release process.

What Are Privacy Acts? And Why Are They Important for Your Business?

Control over our privacy is something we should all be entitled to. Privacy is a human right after all and that should be the case whether we’re on or offline. Good news is many countries around the world have introduced privacy acts for both online and offline data use over the recent years. With the internet growing astronomically in such a short period of time, more concern than ever has been placed on user data and how it's gathered, stored, and used by those who acquire it.

Automation and low-code: Setting the stage for ongoing innovation

Digital transformation is a term you hear a lot these days, but it’s not always clear what a business means by it. For companies using the Now Platform to reinvent how they work, it has a pretty clear and compelling meaning. ServiceNow customers are using the Now Platform to expand their automation initiatives beyond department-specific, isolated tasks to include processes that cross organizational boundaries. After all, the typical business process doesn’t stay within a single department.

How to get base URL in ASP.NET Core

You typically don't and shouldn't need to know where a web app is deployed. At least not from within the code of the web app itself. I keep seeing questions related to this, though. There are a range of reasons why this can still be relevant like if you want to generate and output an absolute URL in an MVC controller or Razor page. Here's a blog post about how to get the base URL in ASP.NET Core. Let's rewind a bit before we start looking into the code. All websites are deployed somewhere.

Icinga for Windows v1.10.0 - The Next Level

After some drawbacks we are very happy today to finally release Icinga for Windows v1.10.0! The past weeks we have spent a lot of time to polish this release, test many different aspects and optimize the user experience in general. Please make sure to read the upgrading docs carefully, before upgrading to v1.10.0. Otherwise, your installation might not work as expected, or Icinga for Windows might not load anymore.

Fire up new Browser checks with our new templates

Let’s admit it: end-to-end testing is a technical challenge. How do you make features testable? What testing framework should you use? When should you run your test suite? There are so many things to learn and consider. At Checkly, we want to ease end-to-end monitoring so that you can focus on shipping excellent software instead of figuring out how you monitor and test it. But before getting into our latest feature addition, let me answer the above questions.

Out Of Office Monitoring Tips for the End of Summer

Employees are returning from vacation, the weather is (finally) cooling down and summer is coming to a close. It can feel a bit overwhelming returning to work and getting back into the swing of things. When it comes to website monitoring, there are simple steps you can take to make sure your transition is as smooth as possible. Take advantage of a few ounces of pre-vacation prevention to save on pounds of post-holiday cure.