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We are excited to announce the beta version of our new alerting condition configuration UI. In addition to allowing you to define alerting conditions more precisely, this new UI provides an easier, more visual way to find the metrics to alert on. The new UI lets you use the same metrics selector as used in Stackdriver’s Metrics Explorer to define a broader set of conditions. Starting today, you can use that metrics selector to create and edit threshold conditions for alerting policies.

The day has finally arrived; GDPR is officially in effect! These new policies are meant to provide more transparency about the data companies collect on users, and how that data is used. I for one am just excited that the onslaught of "We’ve updated our privacy policy" emails arriving in my pummeled inbox is nearing its end.

In the container world of today, two words rule in bliss — Docker and Kubernetes. Two extremely popular platforms used for managing containers that for a beginner at least, may also seem to be competing technologies.

Once your Rails app begins seeing consistent traffic, you're bound to have slow SQL queries. While PostgreSQL and MySQL can log slow queries, it's difficult to gleam actionable information from this raw stream. The slow query logs lack application context: where's the LOC generating the query? Is this slow all of the time, or just some of the time? Which controller-action or background job is the caller? Enter Scout.

In this article, we talk about what you need to know about how APIs affect your business, and what you need to do to safeguard your API or your websites and services with API dependencies. So, if you’re wondering why API monitoring is so important, you’re in the right place. Read on!

Keeping track of your websites, servers, services or IP blacklists is an important part of online business, but not to worry. Today we’re showcasing HetrixTools. HetrixTools provides monitoring services for all of your services and is jam packed with amazing features for you to try.

In many big systems, distributed and especially microservice architectures become more and more popular. With the increase of modules and services, one incoming request could cross dozens of service. How to pinpoint the issues of the online system, and the bottleneck of the whole distributed system? This became a very important problem, which must be resolved.

Stackify is excited to announce App Scoring as part of the Retrace product suite. App Scoring expands on Retrace’s deep performance insights, combining many factors of an application’s performance into a single “letter grade” benchmark score. Learn more about how your application is performing over time.

RapidSpike Connect Anything (RCA) is my favourite least used product. We use it for loads of stuff internally, but it often gets overlooked by our customers. But as a developer, whenever I see a slightly obscure API, I can’t resist having a play with it to get the data into RCA, just to prove we can monitor anything.

The Odin Project is an open source community and curriculum for learning web development. Students build portfolio projects and complete lessons that are constantly curated and updated with the latest resources. They offer completely free courses like Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Once a student climbs the technical ladder, there's even a course on how to go about getting a job in the industry, walking you through things like job searching, interviews, and much more.