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Enforce Quotas on Data Ingestion with Redis

Recently, a customer brought me a challenging use case: They were looking to enforce quotas on their internal customers, i.e. other teams in the organization. The analytics team provides services such as searching and reporting capabilities to those other teams, which subscribe to the services through a chargeback model. Each team that subscribes is supposed to limit its ingestion of data to a quota: a maximum permitted ingest per 24-hour period.

How Are You Making Storage Placement Decisions-and Does It Matter?

According to Virtana’s recent State of Hybrid Cloud Storage survey, most organizations have a little over half of their storage in the cloud, keeping the rest on premises. But how are they deciding what storage goes where? Is there such a thing as a wrong—or even just sub-optimal—storage placement decision? We dug into the data to answer these questions.

Winston Logger - Full tutorial with a sample Nodejs application

Winston Logger is one of the most popular logging libraries for Node.js. It is designed to be a simple and universal logging library supporting multiple modes of transport. A transport is essentially a storage device for the logs. Each logger can have multiple modes of transport configured at different levels. For example, one may want error logs stored in a database, but all logs output to the console or a local file. Some of the features of Winston logger are.

Apache Tomcat Logging Configuration: How to View and Analyze Log Files

Apache Tomcat is the Java web server that implements many Java features like web site APIs, Java server pages, Java Servlets, etc. It’s an open-source software widely used in the industry. Tomcat sits on top of your application and is the entry point for reaching your application code. It is crucial to monitor its performance and make sure everything works, get notified when unexpected errors occur, and take action in real-time.

Cribl's Zachary Kilpatrick Awarded 2023 Channel Chief Award from CRN for Second Consecutive Year

The Cribl Partner Program is designed to be a comprehensive solution for organizations looking to grow their customer relationships and revenue streams, while also enabling a fast deployment of observability solutions to serve customers. Our partners receive extensive training, tools, and support to unlock the full potential of observability data for their customers.

Exploring Your Network Data with Kentik

In this short video overview, Kentik’s Phil Gervasi explains how the Kentik Data Explorer lets network engineers (including network systems, cloud security and SREs) ask any question about their networks and explore the tremendous amount and variety of network telemetry being collected. Phil talks about the various types of network telemetry you can explore, the many dimensions of that data that can be filtered and analyzed, and gives a quick tour of the Data Explorer interface.

The Developer Obsession With Code Names - 186 Interesting Examples

Code names can be about secrecy, but when it comes to software development, it’s usually not so much about secrecy as it is about the convenience of having a name for a specific version of the software. It can be very practical to have a unique identifier for a project to get everyone on the same page and avoid confusion. It can also be a great way to build excitement and cohesion in a development team. And we want to name our darlings, don’t we?

Weathering the MS Teams Outage with Zero Impact

While innumerable companies suffered due to the outage, it was business as usual for Nexthink Customers. On January 25th, 2023, millions of unsuspecting employees across the globe were met with an unexpected roadblock during a regular work day. Microsoft Teams, used by over 280 million users worldwide for video meetings, messaging, and collaboration, was officially declared down.

Variable Chaining in Dashboards Demo - SigNoz

With variable chaining, you have more granular control over charts in the Dashboards tab of SigNoz. It lets you filter specific views based on your use cases quickly. More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.

Troubleshooting Teams The Right Way

VIPs almost never open tickets, but you’ll know when they’ve got a problem with Microsoft Teams. Even when the rest of your team logs tickets for troubleshooting Teams issues there’s a good chance they won’t give you enough information about the problem – particularly if its hardware related. These are traditional challenges for IT departments trying to maintain Teams services. Luckily, we have the solution.