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Who needs CMMC certification (Resource Guide for 2022)

If your company works with the US Department of Defense (DoD) as a contractor or subcontractor, you will need to prepare to meet CMMC requirements in order to successfully bid on and win contracts. This recent development has been a significant adjustment for small organisations who wish to work with or continue working with the DoD.

What's New in OpenTelemetry: Community, Distributions, and Roadmap

I am honored to be able to talk about Splunk’s investment and commitment to the OpenTelemetry project. I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the latest in the OpenTelemetry community, as well as the instrumentation and data collection distributions available from Splunk. Be sure to read through the whole post, as you will find some roadmap information too!

How sparse histograms can improve efficiency, precision, and mergeability in Prometheus TSDB

Grafana Labs recently hosted its first company-wide hackathon, and we joined forces with Björn “Beorn” Rabenstein to bring sparse high-resolution histograms in Prometheus TSDB into a working prototype. The Prometheus TSDB has gained experimental support to store and retrieve these new sparse high-resolution histograms. At PromCon 2021, we presented our exciting, fresh-off-the-presses results from the ongoing project.

Evolving from Splunk IT Essentials to Predictive IT Management with Splunk IT Service Intelligence

This video describes the value Splunk IT Essentials Work provides organizations that are just getting started with using Splunk for common IT tasks and use cases, as well as the benefits of quickly evolving to predictive IT and service management with Splunk IT Service Intelligence when you’re ready.

Crossed 5000+ GitHub stars, metrics generation from spans - SigNal 06

Welcome back to SigNal #6. Every month, SigNal from SigNoz gives you an update on what we've been building, shipping, and iterating. In the midst of sprint plannings, feature releases, and bug fixes, time just flew by, and here we are, with another monthly product update! Also, we crossed 5000+ GitHub stars this month.

Rollbar Pro Tips: UUIDs

The Rollbar API supports including a UUID with occurrence reports which can later be used to look up that exact occurrence. Learn how you can create a browser bookmark to quickly open an error sent to Rollbar, and how to configure Rollbar to display the error UUID back to the web page. Rollbar is the leading continuous code improvement platform that proactively discovers, predicts, and remediates errors with real-time AI-assisted workflows. With Rollbar, developers continually improve their code and constantly innovate rather than spending time monitoring, investigating, and debugging.

Rollbar Pro Tips: Slack Best Practices

Deliver a better alerting experience for you and your team by utilizing Slack best practices and customizing your alerts. Rollbar is the leading continuous code improvement platform that proactively discovers, predicts, and remediates errors with real-time AI-assisted workflows. With Rollbar, developers continually improve their code and constantly innovate rather than spending time monitoring, investigating, and debugging.

NGINX Monitoring: Best Tools and Key Metrics You Should Know About

NGINX is a popular web server featuring a wide range of capabilities, including reverse proxy, mail proxy, HTTP cache, and load balancing. It offers TLS offloading and a health check of the backends and supports gRPC, WebSocket, and HTTP/2. In short, NGINX is a one-stop solution for most of your web server needs. When using NGINX, monitoring its metrics is crucial for tackling issues.

Best practices for Cloud Operations in the enterprise

How can you get the most value out of Cloud Operations, especially as your Cloud footprint grows? In this episode of Engineering for Reliability, we look at the enterprise best practices for setting up and using Cloud Operations. Watch to learn how to improve the security of your services, better manage capacity, and keep your users happy!