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Checkly Alerting Improvements and Our New Slack Community

Welcome to day one of our very first Launch Week! In the upcoming days, we’ll release new features every day. We’ll share new alerting capabilities, unlock the power of Playwright, and will talk about new ways to control and write your Browser checks. It’ll be a nice feature and improvements mix, trust me! To kick things off, let’s have a look at what’s new in the world of monitoring and alerting.

How AIOps enhances operational efficiency

Digital data is everywhere, and its sheer volume and ambiguity often make it challenging for us humans to analyze. That’s why we use a special branch of AI called artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) to reveal the deeper structure of copious data. AIOps sits at the intersection of big data and machine learning to improve the efficiency of IT operations.

Monitoring the AVD Broker

A legacy way to deploy applications and desktops on Azure was often to put some Server 2022 VMs (Virtual Machines) in Azure running the standard RDS (Remote Desktop Services) roles – session hosts, brokers, gateway etc. and then pay the compute costs for your session hosts, brokers, and gateways, set up a public IP address and open ports.

User Journey Secure Variable Storage

We’re excited to announce that we now offer Secure Variable Storage for synthetic user journey scripting! If you have sensitive data that you wish to use in journey scripts then you can now store them in your account’s own encrypted vault. This is useful for data such as email addresses, passwords, usernames and API keys.

Why is data replication important?

High availability. This is what every monitoring tool needs to ensure that you never compromise on IT infrastructure visibility. On top of high availability, do you really want to enable all available features on your production system? It is important for the monitoring tool to have a low footprint on your CPU consumption and memory usage. Let’s dive deeper into the recommended way of configuring Netdata to ensure high availability and a low resource footprint through data replication.

New State of DevOps Report 2022: Broadcom Sponsors Key Research

For DevOps teams looking for insights on how to improve, it’s invaluable to leverage the learnings of others. At the same time, given the wide range of DevOps teams’ expertise, tenure, and organizational dynamics, it’s also clear that one size does not fit all. That’s why efforts like this year’s “Accelerate State of DevOps Report” are so important. We’re proud to be a sponsor of this 2022 edition.

Interval Selector in Sentry Dashboards

Demo of the new time interval selector feature within the Sentry Dashboards tab. These are actual videos submitted by Sentaurs for our monthly Show-N-Tell. We have not edited them except for obscuring personal information that may appear in screenshots. Some videos may include screenshots that contain fictitious usernames or email addresses for illustrative purposes.

Effective Log Management and Analysis as an Enabler for Observability

Traditionally, when monitoring or troubleshooting active incidents, engineers access logs directly on the source system. However, modern IT environments are now too complex, and engineers can no longer manage and analyze logs effectively this way. With the adoption of microservices and the use of cloud-native infrastructure, it’s no longer feasible.