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As we head towards the end of 2022, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and those who have helped to shape our business. In our small way of giving back, we have made a donation to the Red Cross on behalf of our global customers, partners and employees so that they can continue to rapidly respond to emergencies or emerging humanitarian needs anywhere in the world. Below we have curated a list of the year’s developments that have helped us bring more value to our customers and partners.

Fact: The Security Operations team at Grafana Labs loves logs. They are a key pillar of observability for many reasons, such as how they are stuffed full of details to help us diagnose the “why?” when things go wrong. This is especially true when the information pertains not to a series of unfortunate events, but instead to an adversary trying to cause us harm.

When developing a backlink strategy, every site owner needs the best tools to help determine the quality of a backlink. High-quality backlinks can increase your SEO score exponentially, with bad backlinks being well-known for destroying rankings on SERPs. When you build your site, backlink tools can help you build a phenomenal list that results in a far better search ranking than you’d expect.

Organizations are under pressure to deliver software faster than ever before. Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) help them meet that demand. Companies are turning to CI/CD to speed up the software development process and increase efficiency. In this article, learn about what CI/CD is, the benefits of using it and some of the challenges that come with it.

Testing applications behind a login flow is cumbersome. And it gets even worse when there’s two-factor authentication (2FA) involved. Many people work around this problem by disabling it or implementing wild hacks. Automating a 2FA-based login flow is just too hard! I thought that for a long time, too. But I must admit — I was wrong.

Learn how Locus uses advanced synthetic monitoring from Checkly to ensure the reliability of its Dispatch Management Platform Locus.sh is a leading-edge technology company solving one of the most challenging global supply chain problems: last-mile logistics. Locus' order-to-delivery dispatch management platform helps enterprises transform their last-mile logistics operations into growth centers.

Technology has been evolving rapidly over the past few decades, and artificial intelligence (AI) has been leading the charge. AI has been used in various applications from self-driving cars to automated customer service. But one of the most intriguing applications of AI is in the form of chatbots. Chatbots, or computer programs designed to simulate conversation, have been around for a while, but the latest iteration of chatbot technology is taking it to a whole new level.

We here at Honeycomb really like OpenTelemetry and goodie bags, so we have a nice little OpenTelemetry-flavored holiday goodie bag to share with you before you’re off for the holidays!

It’s the holiday season again, which means family gatherings, good food, and plenty of toasts. It also means a lot of online activity—buying gifts, getting promotional offers, booking deliveries—all of which mean a continuous flow of emails sent to your personal and business accounts. With so much going on, even experienced users can accidentally fall prey to one of the many “hooks” that cybercriminals are putting out there.

Platform engineering is an emerging discipline focused on enhancing developer productivity by reducing the complexity and uncertainty of modern software delivery. It addresses some of the biggest challenges of doing DevOps at scale, including aligning development practices with business priorities and reducing the burden of managing a complicated web of tools and infrastructure across the application lifecycle.