The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
Is Telegraf too big for your device? Too many plugins in one binary getting you down? Let me introduce you to the Telegraf custom builder – the new tool for reducing Telegraf’s overall memory and disk footprint. In this blog, we will discuss the “what, why, when” and also how to use the new custom builder.
The world is getting back to normal… I attended my first conference after three years of almost no travel and Gartner did not disappoint. The Gartner IT Symposium//Xpo™* drew thousands of attendees to Orlando, Florida from around the globe and I think everyone was as excited (and - a bit - nervous) as I was to be back together again. As Gartner does annually, they identified Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023.
In today's complex, multi-cloud environments, IT and engineering teams are under increasing pressure to respond to errors affecting their entire system. Therefore, IT operations, DevOps, and SRE teams are all striving to gain complete observability across these increasingly complex and diverse computing environments. But what exactly does observability mean?
Today we will look at monitoring Hashicorp’s Nomad platform using a combination of Prometheus and Grafana. But first, a quick recap of all 3 tools.
As the rapid digital transformation has put a lot of pressure on IT organizations to be more proactive and agile, DevOps principles and practices have been an invaluable resource. However, to remain at the top of the game, organizations need an even stronger solution. So, what’s the answer? AIOPs (artificial intelligence for IT operations), of course!
Have you been meaning to learn about OpenTelemetry and the integration of all available application and service telemetry? If you like to learn things by doing; get ready to dive in and have some fun with OpenTelemetry and Splunk Observability Cloud. Quickly learn more about OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation and collectors at your own pace with these walkthroughs and guides.
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed Kubernetes service that enables users to deploy and orchestrate containerized applications on Google’s infrastructure. Datadog’s GKE integration, when paired with our Kubernetes integration, has always provided deep visibility into the health and performance of your clusters at the node, pod, container, and application levels.
At ObservabilityCON, we announced our first step towards launching a native integration between Grafana k6 load testing and Grafana Tempo tracing (k6 x Tempo) in Grafana Cloud. We created k6 x Tempo to help dev, testing, and operation teams analyze their performance test results more effectively and proactively improve the reliability of their business-critical applications.