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What the Pivot() is Going On with the MQTT Plugin?

The MQTT Consumer Plugin is one of our most widely used input plugins for Telegraf. If you need a little bit of background, then I highly recommend checking out the following: I plan to release an MQTT best practices blog soon, but we thought this plugin partnership was too good not to talk about now.

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Data Observability With Robotic Data Automation Fabric

Digital-first businesses are striving for service assurance, which has become the lifeblood for their businesses processes. But they are increasingly getting complex across legacy and cloud-native applications, multi-cloud distributed services, with the rise of edge and when leveraged with Kubernetes and microservices architectures. Service assurance needs full-stack observability; however, customers need an approach to tame the data deluge while enabling actionable insights.

Error Monitoring - The Necessary Application Feature

To err is human. The process of software development can’t be error-free; fixing errors is part and parcel of building software applications. And, no matter how much you dislike those harsh error messages when your code fails and exits, you have to admit that they save you from a lot worse.

Full Lifecycle Application Performance Monitoring is a Money-Saving Hack

IT experts and techies are constantly devising new ways to do more with less in our rapidly evolving world. Traditional platforms monitoring and modern technological maintenance take a large portion of a conventional organization’s IT budget. This leaves limited resources to develop new standards-based and adaptive applications that fulfill core business demands.

Python Instrumentation - Monitor your Python application using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

In this video, learn how to set up application monitoring for Python apps using an open-source solution, SigNoz and OpenTelemetry. Tracing your application can give the much-needed context required to troubleshoot performance issues. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that can help you set up an observability framework for your cloud-native applications.

NodeJs OpenTelemetry - Implementing Distributed Tracing in a NodeJS Application using OpenTelemetry

In this tutorial, we will implement distributed tracing for a nodejs application based on microservices architecture. To implement distributed tracing, we will be using open-source solutions - SigNoz and OpenTelemetry, so you can easily follow the tutorial. 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.

New in Grafana 9: The Grafana Loki query builder makes writing LogQL queries easier

Grafana 9 launched at GrafanaCONline 2022 in June, and one of the biggest highlights was the introduction of the new Grafana Loki and Prometheus query builders. 🎉 We believe that both of them are going to be incredibly useful for our Prometheus and Grafana Loki users. In this blog post, we will focus on the Grafana Loki query builder and share its new features and improvements with you.

Building a quick Reddit Blazor client without Reddit's API

When developing the new exception landing pages we recently launched (like insert exception link here), I wanted to pull some statistics from Reddit. While looking through various ways to integrate, I found an easy approach that I want to share with you in this post. You probably already know Reddit, the highly active social news aggregation and discussion forum. I've found myself using Reddit more and more over the last couple of years, with the dotnet subreddit in particular.

Introducing Group Checks | Customizable Downtime Alerting for Interrelated Checks

Have you struggled to quantify the uptime performance of a complex system? With many interrelated parts, it can be easy to tell which pieces are down, but a tougher challenge to view them in the context of those systems. When you’re responding to a major outage, the data on your system’s uptime is just as critical as its components.

How Icinga helps Retail Giant Magazine Luiza digitalize Brazil

We are proud of our many customers and users around the globe that trust Icinga for critical IT infrastructure monitoring. That´s why we´re now showcasing some of these enterprises with their Success stories. It´s stories from companies or organizations just like yours, of any size and different kinds of industries. Some of them are our long-standing customers, others have just recently profited from migrating from another solution to Icinga.