If you’ve landed on this blog, you’re likely either considering starting your OpenTelemetry journey or you are well on your way. As OpenTelemetry adoption has grown, not only within the observability community but also internally at Grafana Labs and among our users, we frequently get requests around how to best implement an OpenTelemetry strategy.

It'll soon be the third anniversary of publicly launching OnlineOrNot on Twitter, and I often get asked what I did to get my first paying customers - so I felt like sharing. I assume when most folks ask this that they're looking for the one thing they can do to finally start getting paid customers. Let me be clear: it's never just one thing.

Monitoring your instance of MongoDB is important for maintaining optimal database performance, ensuring security, detecting and addressing issues promptly, and planning for future growth and scalability. Database and infrastructure monitoring allows for the early detection of potential problems such as server overload, disk space shortages, or network issues.

Welcome to 2024, a year where the digital landscape is not just evolving—it’s revolutionizing. In this dynamic world, particularly in the realms of tech, finance, business, and real estate, staying abreast of the latest website monitoring services trends is more than a necessity—it’s your superpower. Those beginning their journey in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps must understand these trends are the key to unlocking a world of possibilities.

In this webinar hosted by InfluxDB and HiveMQ, we focus on how you can create value for your business using new tools in the AI and database ecosystem to quickly deploy AI models to perform tasks like anomaly detection. The webinar starts with a high-level overview of how MQTT and time series data can be valuable in an industrial IoT environment.

Monitoring your GitHub account is important for maintaining code quality, facilitating collaboration, ensuring security, enabling smooth development workflows, and improving overall project management and efficiency. This will allow you to stay updated on code changes, pull requests, issues, and comments and facilitates collaboration among team members, ensuring everyone is informed about the progress and status of your projects.

The two key pillars of building reliable applications are: testing and monitoring. With testing, you can verify that each pull request works before it’s merged and deployed to production. Just testing isn’t enough, though. You also need to make sure that the application continues to work on production. Database rollovers, third-party outages, and unexpected spikes in traffic can all cause issues that need to be detected.

Scalability in cloud computing refers to the system’s ability to handle changing workloads efficiently. It allows seamless resource adjustments based on demand, optimizing performance, cost, and resource utilization. Key benefits include improved flexibility, cost efficiency, high availability, and enhanced user experience. Scalability is essential for adapting to dynamic business requirements and ensuring the optimal functioning of cloud-based applications and services.

Cribl Stream is awesome at routing your server logs and making your job easier, but could it help you outside of work and potentially make your personal life easier? The short answer is: Yes. I’ve personally used Stream to build a notification system to inform me when certain products go on sale or when fully booked appointments become available. In this blog, I’m going to take this a step further and show you how to.