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In the last episode, we showed you how to use OpenTelemetry for tracing to gauge how requests traverse your service. In this episode of Stack Doctor, we show you how to use OpenTelemetry’s metric function, allowing you to define the metrics you want to capture and improve the observability of your Node.js application.

This video shows you how the Sumo Logic App dashboards provide visibility into the security posture of your endpoints as analysed by the CrowdStrike Falcon platform deployed in your network.

Practitioners the field of data visualizations often talk about 2 types of visualizations: exploratory vs explanatory. To quote Google definitions, “Exploratory data visualizations (EDVs) are the type of visualizations you assemble when you do not have a clue about what information lies within your data. Nov 19, 2018” Explanatory visualization, by contrast, is defined as “what happens when you have something specific you want to show an audience” (Storytelling with data blog, April 2014)

Dan walks through sbt support for publishing a package to Cloudsmith and integrating your private repo into a project to help you manage your dependencies. #cloudsmith #sbt

Grafana 7.0 is coming in May! In the next days and weeks before it launches during GrafanaCONline, we'll be posting sneak previews of new features.

It’s been nearly 2.5 years since Prometheus 2.0 released and 2 years since Prometheus graduated in the CNCF. You might say that clearly proves that Prometheus has become mainstream. However, that doesn’t mean Prometheus would be “done” now. The developer community is more active than ever. Let’s have a look at the highlights of the past year and at the things on the roadmap. The speaker is one of the Prometheus developers and would also be delighted to hear from you what you want to see next in Prometheus.

In the era of services architecture, reliability engineering, and container orchestration, the word “observability” is widely used but rarely clearly defined. What is “observability” really? Of the various observability concepts and tools, what are the distinctions and overlaps in various technologies?

networks because SD-WAN is rendering them obsolete.

The switch market is the most fragmented because stagnant switch technology has levelled the playing field.

Access points have overtaken switches as the most popular network device on client sites because of growing businesses demand for wireless connectivity. How will these trends affect your MSP business in the year ahead? In this one-hour webinar, Auvik CPO Alex Hoff, channel consultant Erick Simpson, ChannelPro reporter Rich Freeman, and two MSP execs discuss what the crowded network hardware market means for MSPs and the channel.

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