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The digital database has come a long way since its infancy in the 1960s. Modern databases do much more heavy lifting than their simpler predecessors and have become sophisticated storehouses for both unstructured and structured data. Businesses still rely heavily on databases, and with advances in database monitoring technology, teams can protect their data like never before.

At Upsun, we are committed to making your development and deployment experience as smooth and seamless as possible. As part of this effort, we regularly listen to your feedback to see how we can improve things. One of those things: is how complex it can be to configure environment or project settings from the Console. That is why we decided to regroup all settings pages together so that they’re easily accessible from a single location.

Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets used by your cloud applications. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, or cryptographic keys.

Today, we are excited to open Early Access for our improved Dedicated Incident Slack Channel. These improvements include: In order to take advantage of this feature you need to upgrade to Slack on WebHooks V3 and request Early Access from PagerDuty support. Once you are on the right version and have early access, there are two ways to create a dedicated incident channel.

The Splunk Operator for Kubernetes team is extremely pleased to announce the release of version 2.0! This represents the culmination of many months of work by our team and continues to deliver on our commitment to provide a high-quality experience for our customers wishing to deploy Splunk on the Kubernetes platform.

The OpenTelemetry Collector is an application written in Go. The GitHub readme does a great job of describing it: So the OpenTelemetry collector is a Go binary that does exactly what its name implies: it collects data and sends it to a back-end. But there’s a lot of functionality that lies in between. What a neat service! A local destination for data that handles the final sending of Open Telemetry information to your back end.

As the saying goes, “You don’t know what you don’t know”. So, in this blog, I’m going to look at five things in N-central that you might not know exactly how they work—or you might not know about them at all.

Pandora FMS Open Source is not a freemium software, it is not bloatware nor shareware (*Wink for those born before the 80s). Pandora FMS is licensed under GPL 2.0 and the first line of code was written in 2004 by Sancho Lerena, the company’s current CEO. At that time, free software was in full swing and MySQL was still an independent company, as was SUN Microsystems.

Observable and secure platforms use three connected data sets: logs, metrics, and traces. Platforms can link these data to alerting systems to notify system administrators when an event requires intervention. There are nuances to setting up these alerts so the system is kept healthy and the system administrators are not chasing false positive alerts.

Moving from a monolith to microservices lets you simplify code deployments, improve the reliability of your applications, and give teams autonomy to work independently in their preferred languages and tooling. But adopting a microservices architecture can bring increased complexity that leads to gaps in your team members' knowledge about how your services work, what dependencies they have, and which teams own them.