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How to securely send your telemetry to Grafana Cloud using AWS PrivateLink

Using Grafana Cloud to manage and monitor even your most sensitive data from your AWS services just got easier. If your organization’s workloads are hosted in AWS and you are using a Grafana Cloud instance that’s also hosted in AWS, you can now use AWS PrivateLink to establish a secure connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) network and Grafana Cloud for all your data.

Unify and query private network data in Grafana Cloud: Private Data Source Connect is now GA

You may be ready to make the move to Grafana Cloud, but securely querying private data has been a blocker. If you wanted to query a network-secured data source like a MySQL database or an Elasticsearch cluster that is hosted in an on-premises private network or a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), you needed to open your network to inbound queries from a range of IP addresses.

Listen, Learn and Adapt: The Keys to a Nimble Customer Experience Strategy

In celebration of Customer Experience Day 2023, this post is part of a series on customer experience and the ways that Splunk strives to deliver superior customer experience at every level. Any resilient customer experience (CX) team knows that in order to create superior customer experiences, listening is the first step. This is made apparent when you consider that 73% percent of customers expect companies to have a firm grasp on their unique needs and expectations.

Telemetry 101: An Introduction To Telemetry

Understanding system performance is critical for gaining a competitive advantage. Telemetry provides deeper insights into the system, helping business owners make better decisions. This article take a comprehensive look at the topic of telemetry. We’ll look at its functionality and telemetry types. We’ll also look at all the things telemetry data can help you with — plus the challenges companies with telemetry systems might face.

Troubleshooting Common Kafka Conundrums

This is the third blog in our series on Kafka, where we continue to explore the nuances of deploying Kafka for scale. In our previous blogs, Essential Metrics for Kafka Performance Monitoring and Auto-Instrumenting OpenTelemetry for Kafka, we laid the foundation for understanding Kafka’s performance and monitoring aspects. Now, as we explore further into the Kafka ecosystem, we’re here to tackle the common challenges that can arise during deployment and scaling.

Cloud Imperium Games moves ELK stack with ChaosSearch.

Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) is a prominent video game development company known for its ambitious project, Star Citizen, which aims to be an open-world, massively multiplayer online space simulation game. As a result of the game's popularity, all the metrics, events, and logs, generated to track every single action during gameplay, also experienced explosive growth in terms of volume and also in diversity (a consequence of the dynamic and fast-paced development environment).

Demo of Internet Sonar: From Disruption to Instant Detection

Catchpoint's new Internet Sonar shows you global Internet status at a glance in an AI-powered, real-time, interactive dashboard and map. It answers the first question any IT team needs to ask when there's an outage: "Is it me, or is it something else?" Key product features: In this recorded live demo session, leaders from our Product team will walk you through how Internet Sonar works, how you can use it to lower MTTR, and how organizations are using it to save millions.

What is Zero Trust Reliability in engineering: Piyush Verma - The Reliability Podcast

The Reliability podcast aims to speak with engineers who have worked on large, complex systems and glean through their learnings. What best practices should one imbibe? What are non-negotiable learnings to become better at a craft? What’s ‘engineering’ going to be like with the advent of AI? We answer these and more tracing personal journeys of engineers who have built stellar careers around decoding the innumerable intricacies of software engineering.