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How Netdata's machine learning works

In this video we will walk though the Netdata Anomaly Advisor deepdive python notebook. The aim of this notebook is to explain, in detail, how the unsupervised anomaly detection in the Netdata agent actually works under the hood. No buzzwords, no magic, no mystery :) Try it for yourself, get started by signing in to Netdata and connecting a node. Once initial models have been trained (usually after the agent has about one hour of data, zero configuration needed), you'll be able to start exploring in the Anomaly Advisor tab of Netdata.

FastAPI and Starlette Sentry Integrations Have Arrived

FastAPI is known for building REST APIs, middleware services, and simple integration for adding authentications and more. And it’s known for doing all of that…you guessed it, fast. It’s used by tech giants and scientists alike, and according to Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey 2022 more developers are using FastAPI than Ruby on Rails.

7 Ways to Slam Dunk Your Next Network Assessment Using Auvik

So, you’re an MSP that’s recently won a new client. As part of the deal, you’ve promised a network assessment: a look at the overall network to determine if there are any glaring issues that will interfere with day-to-day operations. The topology is vast, spanning multiple sites and dozens of switches and firewalls. How do you act quickly? And what should you be looking for? Here are 7 network assessment tasks Auvik can help you easily complete.

What Are Spans in Distributed Tracing?

Distributed tracing is an essential process in the modern world of cloud-based applications. Tracing tracks and observes each service request an application makes across distributed systems. Developers may find distributed tracing most prevalent in microservice architectures where user requests pass through multiple services before providing the desired results.

The Cost of Not Modernizing Your Infrastructure Monitoring

Did you know that nearly 15% of IT budgets go towards maintaining legacy systems? Recent data suggests that these systems cost hundreds of millions annually to operate and maintain. For that reason, many companies continue to invest in moving their systems away from expensive on-premises to the cloud, where maintenance is more cost-effective and consistent thanks to modern monitoring capabilities.

The What, Why, and How of Time Series Databases

This article was written by Thamatam Vijay Kumar. Scroll down for author bio and photo. Modern-day websites are filled with dashboards featuring enriched charts, line graphs, radar as well as multigraphs. The world is fascinated with such charts and graphs, which deliver much value to millennial web applications. There are many such chart libraries which provide interactive visualization and deliver data insights for users. The charts plot the lines using data points.

Automatically Convert Grafana Dashboards from InfluxQL to PromQL with a New Open Source Tool

It’s monitoring time. We all collect metrics from our system and applications to monitor their health, availability and performance. Our metrics are essentially time-series data collected from various endpoints. Then, it is stored in time series specialized databases, and then visualized in the metrics graphs we all know and love.

How Netdata's Machine Learning works

Following on from the recent launch of our Anomaly Advisor feature, and in keeping with our approach to machine learning, here is a detailed Python notebook outlining exactly how the machine learning powering the Anomaly Advisor actually works under the hood. Or if you’d rather watch a video walkthrough of the notebook then check out below. Try it for yourself, get started by signing in to Netdata and connecting a node.

How to get started with the new Grafana Ansible collection for Grafana Cloud

More than 20,000 companies around the world use Ansible as their Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tool. With the rising popularity towards managing infrastructure using IaC and config management tools, Ansible is one of the best open source tools to choose from. That is why we are excited to announce a new Grafana Ansible collection available to all Grafana Cloud users, including those in the generous free tier.

Tracing and Observing AWS ECS

It’s no secret that application containerization has revolutionized the digital world as we know it by providing a transient gateway into elastic infrastructure that can scale and grow as needed. Where traditional virtualization was all about creating a single homogenous entity, containers are self-contained units of software, able to run in just about any environment, making them extremely portable.