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Gitlab is the DevOps lifecycle tool of choice for most application developers. It was developed to offer continuous integration and deployment pipeline features on an open-source licensing model. GitLab Runner is an open-source application that is integrated within the GitLab CI/ CD pipeline to automate running jobs in the pipeline. It is written in GoLang, making it platform agnostic. It is installed onto any supported operating system, a locally hosted application environment, or within a container.

In this tutorial, we will go through a working example of a Ruby application auto-instrumented with OpenTelemetry. To keep things simple, we will create a basic “Hello World” application, instrument it with OpenTelemetry’s Ruby client library to generate trace data and send it to an OpenTelemetry Collector. The Collector will then export the trace data to an external distributed tracing analytics tool of our choice.

Back in June, we announced the Public Beta for Logz.io’s New Lookz – which is a new UI that completely changes the way users navigate across Logz.io products and features. The Public Beta gave users the option to toggle between the old and new UIs to see which one they liked better. And the answer from our users was as clear as it could be.

The Cloud Monitoring Console (CMC) lets Splunk Cloud Platform administrators view information about the status of a Splunk Cloud Platform deployment. For workload pricing, the CMC lets you monitor usage and stay within your subscription entitlement. From the CMC you can see both ingest and SVC usage information and can gain insight into how your Splunk Cloud Platform deployment is performing.

A Splunk Virtual Compute (SVC) unit is a powerful component of our workload pricing model. Historically, we priced purely on the amount of data sent into Splunk, leading some customers to limit data ingestion to avoid expense related to high volumes of data with low requirements on reporting. With Splunk workload pricing, you now have ultimate flexibility and control over your data and cost.

If you’re a DevOps practitioner working in a Microsoft-centric environment, you’ll be pleased to learn that Logz.io recently added support for the popular Teams communications hub to help broadcast pressing alerts and other monitoring data. The integration comes on the heels of making the Logz.io platform directly available from within the Azure Console and expands organizations’ abilities to communicate and share notifications about everything from log data to security events.

Arm-based Kubernetes clusters have been in use for a while, albeit mostly for niche uses, by enthusiasts, and DIY hobbyists. But that is changing. Arm architecture offers an efficiency and scalability that other architectures do not, and that makes it appealing to businesses.