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Authors' Cut-Structured Events Are the Basis of Observability

At its core, observability is understanding the internal state of your systems based on the telemetry they output so you can effectively troubleshoot, debug, and tune performance. However, there’s a tendency to reduce observability to a collection of logs, metrics, and traces, which strips away much of the visibility you need to understand what’s going on.

GrafanaCONline 2022 Day 3 recap: Alerting in Grafana 9, Loki developments, dashing dashboards, and more!

GrafanaCONline 2022 is still going strong, with sessions that covered alerting in Grafana 9, developments in Grafana Loki, and some winning Loki use cases. Plus, there was a talk about building an a F1 telemetry analysis solution that uses Grafana Cloud, along with plenty of dashboard discussions.

Inside Grafana Labs hackathons: how they work and what projects ended up on the product roadmap

Three times a year, Grafanistas around the world step away from their daily responsibilities for one week and put their creative energy into what has quickly become a cultural touchstone at Grafana Labs: Our company-wide hackathon.

What Is Synthetic Monitoring? | The Benefits of Running Synthetic Tests - Sematext

Find out what synthetic monitoring is and how it works. Discover the benefits of using synthetic testing tools for website performance and how to choose the right one for your use case. Synthetic monitoring (also known as synthetic testing and active or proactive monitoring) is one of the many tools developers use to oversee their websites. Synthetic testing removes the user and their device as variables and lets your test your deployed site. This helps ensure the website and all its third-party APIs are accessible and functioning as they should.

June 2022 update: We are back with improved up/down emails, reports, affiliate system and more

Hi folks! It’s been a while since the last update post. But don’t worry, it’s not because we were lazy. We’ve just been really busy preparing new, interesting things. Let’s take a closer look at them.

Get immediate visibility into Azure Kubernetes Service with Datadog's powerful AKS dashboard

We’re pleased to announce a new out-of-the-box dashboard for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) that allows you to immediately visualize the health and performance of your AKS clusters. This dashboard organizes and highlights the most critical information from the standard AKS metrics, while also incorporating log data to provide observability into the control plane.