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Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus

Kubernetes is among the emerging open-source products expanding in the market at a very fast rate. It is a portable, extensible, and open-source platform used for managing containerized workloads and services. Companies are widely adopting it for the development of their major products. Docker is always used for running Kubernetes servers on local systems for testing purposes. It becomes essential for companies to monitor their Kubernetes container.

Rollbar Pro Tips: Custom Data Fields

Rollbar will accept and report any additional data fields that you choose to configure, allowing you to send extra data with each occurrence payload. This extra data can be used for things like analytics, custom grouping, and alert routing. 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.

Better Kubernetes application monitoring with GKE workload metrics

The newly released 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report found that teams who excel at modern operational practices are 1.4 times more likely to report greater software delivery and operational performance and 1.8 times more likely to report better business outcomes. A foundational element of modern operational practices is having monitoring tooling in place to track, analyze, and alert on important metrics.

AIOps and Performance Monitoring: A One-Two Punch for IT Operations

Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta. Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Tommy Hearns. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. All were among history’s greatest boxers, but when they met in the ring, each brought out the best in the other. It’s the same in IT management. There are tools and platforms that on their own are essential to IT operations; but when paired as an infrastructure management tandem, each complements the other, ensuring maximal efficacy of both systems.

PagerDuty Integration Spotlight: InfluxData

InfluxData is an Open Source Platform built for metrics and events — a platform that is purpose-built for time series data. The essential time series toolkit — dashboards, queries, tasks and agents all in one place. InfluxDB is even more programmable and performant with a common API across OSS, cloud and enterprise editions. Send events to PagerDuty to keep your teams informed. Check out InfluxData’s integration.