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Let’s talk about the elephant in the room: Failure. Two of the four DORA metrics, Change Failure Rate and MTTR, require that you first define what failure means. How exactly do you do that?

Predicting the traffic of our #applications is as challenging as forecasting the weather. Whether it’s a sudden spike in your apps’ traffic, a set of bugs pushed in #production, or even a full-on #cyberattack, unexpected surges can bring significant consequences. We may have the facts to anticipate a solid estimate, but we can’t plan for the anomalies. This is a concern shared by many #blackfire Monitoring customers. And it’s directly linked to ensuring you have the right amount of traces to maintain your applications’ continuous instrumentation—while controlling costs.

In this video, we show you how to add a Golden Signal to a service. Gremlin uses your Golden Signals to ensure your services are still healthy and responsive during reliability tests. You can configure Golden Signals to use an existing monitor in your observability tools, such as Datadog, New Relic, or Prometheus. We recommend adding all four Golden Signals to each of your services to ensure comprehensive coverage.

This short demo video shows you how to add a Kubernetes service to Gremlin Reliability Management (RM). We'll walk you through selecting the parts of your infrastructure that make up your service, identifying processes for dependency detection, and adding your Golden Signals.

Gremlin Reliability Management helps teams standardize and automate reliability, one service at a time. In this video, we walk through the platform by showing you how to add your services to Gremlin, integrate your Golden Signals, run reliability tests, and generate reliability scores.

In this Snack of the Week, learn a bit about how minimizing HTTP requests can be a critical part of improving performance.

How DevOps and Platform Teams can focus on Innovation and Optimization?

Presented by: Kevin M. Sparenberg (KMSigma) and David Russell (david.russell.CSM) It’s time to take your service desk solution to the next level with automation rules. Built on the framework of simple rules, you can improve efficiency, refine standardized processes, and transform the way your organization runs. This THWACK© Livecast is all about how automation rules in SolarWinds© Service Desk can help lighten the load and allow your teams to focus on those big picture projects which actually improve the business. Let's stop getting bogged down in the minutia and manual interaction of incident management and instead look at ways to lighten your load.

How are FIPS Certified and FIPS Compliant implementations different? What makes the most sense for your organisation? The answer may surprise you. As consumers, we are prone to accept something that’s certified as best-in-class. When it comes to FIPS, which offering provides the best security posture? Watch this short video to learn about the difference. Subscribe to our Channel for more content. And follow our other social accounts.