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Sending Custom Application Metrics to MetricFire's Hosted Graphite

In this article, we’ll show how easy it is to send custom application metrics directly to MetricFire's public carbon endpoint. We’ll build a small Flask application, emit a handful of practical metrics, and generate local traffic to demonstrate how quickly meaningful data can flow from your code to your dashboards.

SSH Check Overview

In this video, learn how to set up and configure SSH checks using Uptime.com. We discuss the frequency options, the importance of Secure Shell (SSH) for secure data communication, and step-by-step instructions for creating a new SSH check in your account. Discover how to set check intervals, configure alert contacts, specify monitoring locations, and ensure your probe servers are whitelisted. Perfect for ensuring your server's remote login capabilities are continuously monitored and secure.

How to Integrate Grafana with Home Assistant

This post covers how to get started with Home Assistant and Grafana, including setting up InfluxDB and Grafana with Docker, configuring InfluxDB to receive data from Home Assistant, and creating a Grafana dashboard to visualize your data. It provides a comprehensive guide for real-time monitoring and analysis of Home Assistant data. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to integrate Grafana with Home Assistant using InfluxDB.

Context is King: Why Network AI Needs Domain Knowledge to Work

Generic AI fails in network operations because it lacks the “institutional knowledge” of your specific environment and business priorities. Learn how Kentik’s Custom Network Context encodes your unique operational reality into AI Advisor, turning a generic chatbot into a context-aware teammate.

VirtualMetric DataStream + Amazon Security Lake: OCSF-Ready Security Data Without Custom Pipelines

Security teams are increasingly turning to Amazon Security Lake to consolidate security telemetry across cloud, network, and on-prem environments. Security Lake provides a unified, OCSF-based data repository that powers analytics, threat hunting, and machine learning across AWS services and third-party tools. But to take advantage of Security Lake’s capabilities, organizations must deliver clean, normalized, OCSF-compliant data, and this is where challenges arise.

Unity SDK 4.0.0: Console support, logs, user feedback and more

We just released the Sentry SDK for Unity 4.0.0 , our biggest update yet. This major release brings comprehensive gaming console support, structured logging, user feedback capabilities, and significant improvements to help you build better games across all platforms. Here's what's new.