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One of our favorite things at Grafana Labs is seeing Grafana dashboards in action. Over the past year, members of the Grafana community — from inside and outside of the company — shared the unique ways they have used dashboards to monitor a wide range of projects including an elderly parent’s home, a Tesla, and a python named Pretzel. Let’s take a look back at some of the eye-catching and informative results.

Accessorizing can completely turn around your look. Same way, the apps we make may also feel patchy sometimes, but then, if we bring in third-party resources - such as third-party API integrations, it can drastically enhance our application’s performance. These additional API integrations expand the functionality of your application tremendously, for example, you might add a real-time alerting feature to an analytics tool you built!

If you’re just getting familiar with full-stack observability and Coralogix and you want to send us your metrics and traces using the new OpenTelemetry Community Demo Application, this blog is here to help you get started. In this simple, step-by-step guide, you will learn how to get telemetry data produced by the OpenTelemetry Demo Webstore into your Coralogix dashboard using Docker on your local machine.

Monitoring tools aid DevOps teams in finding and resolving performance issues more quickly. With the popularity of Kubernetes and Docker continuing to grow, it's critical to establish proper container monitoring and log management practices early on. This is no simple task. Docker container monitoring is quite difficult. Creating a strategy and a suitable monitoring system is not at all easy.

It's common for "make sure the website's up" to be one of the first tasks we receive that we can classify as "website monitoring." We can do it for a friend's or relative's business, our website or blog, or employment. Additionally, checking the availability of a website is frequently the first monitoring task that calls for the use of a tool rather than a command. According to IT professionals, most "is it running?" questions can simply be checked. PING and its several variations are used for this.

A status page is a great way to provide a real-time overview of your services and their uptime. It can also include any planned maintenance or other important updates to your customers. Better yet, a status page can have a massive impact on your internal processes, save you significant time and money, highlight your credibility, and much more.

Another day starting up your laptop or workstation, logging into programs, and waiting for that first call to come in. As an IT help desk analyst, you love when you can solve people’s problems, but sometimes the number of calls feels overwhelming. Although each analyst tier responds to different customer or employee concerns, you all share the same basic job functions like answering calls, asking questions, and research answers.

A clean home is a clean mind. That means it’s time to audit your Uptime.com accounts and start the new year fresh. We know what you’re thinking, cleaning is tedious and boring, and you’d rather eat pie and take a nap. Yes. We understand. But we also know that cleaning up your accounts can save you from security leaks, increase your productivity, and save you the inevitable hassle of decluttering your accounts in the future. But like we said, we understand the reluctance to do it.

With every new update and feature we introduced to our open source LGTM stack this year, we have also enhanced Grafana Cloud, our hosted offering that is powered by Grafana Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Grafana Tempo for traces, and Grafana Mimir for metrics. With Grafana Cloud, “we have curated the open source experience into an easy-to-use, opinionated, and integrated platform,” Grafana Labs VP of Technology Tom Wilkie said in the ObservabilityCON 2022 keynote.

According to Gartner, the ITOM market is divided into “three mini-suite categories — delivery automation, experience management, and performance analysis.” With business growth becoming reliant on the success of IT operations, managing IT operations to ensure optimal performance, uninterrupted service delivery, and an exceptional user experience is critical for organizations.