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Developer's Dilemma: When Is the Right Time to Invest in Log Management

Development cycles are complicated. If you’re on a development team, whether you’re building out a custom application, maintaining and iterating on a growing microservice, or breaking ground on a new platform for a startup, you have your hands full. Log management, though seldom celebrated outside hardcore DevOps and IT circles, is still a well-known instrument among seasoned developers. It is insight into the internal workings of your processes as they are used.

Listening to the Hype: OpsRamp featured in eight Gartner Hype Cycles

July is Hype Cycle season, the time of year when Gartner livens up the summer doldrums by updating its eagerly awaited Hype Cycle series of reports. This year’s Hype Cycles demonstrated OpsRamp’s growing brand recognition as we were listed as a representative vendor in eight different Gartner Hype Cycles.

2 Steps V6 - New Features

Check out how 2 Steps can now match elements as well as visual recognition. Add custom Javascript and build synthetic transactions even faster than before. 2 Steps now supports “element matching” as an alternative to image matching in Chrome tests. This major new functionality allows 2 Steps to handle many previously difficult scenarios, for example when the target of a command is pushed off the bottom of the screen or hidden by a popup, or when a style update changes the appearance of a button.

2 Steps v6 Demo

Agentless Synthetic Monitoring. Purpose-built for Splunk. Create active monitoring tests in minutes for Web, Windows, Mobile, Citrix and more in minutes. Watch the latest features in the v6 release in action. 2 Steps now supports “element matching” as an alternative to image matching in Chrome tests. This major new functionality allows 2 Steps to handle many previously difficult scenarios, for example when the target of a command is pushed off the bottom of the screen or hidden by a popup, or when a style update changes the appearance of a button.

JavaScript Logging Basic Tips

In the past few years, JavaScript has evolved in several ways and has come a long way. With the evolving technology, machines are becoming more powerful, and browsers are getting more robust and compatible. In addition, Node.js’s recent development for JavaScript’s execution on servers, JavaScript has been getting more and more popular than ever before.

How to Ensure Patch Compliance

Patch compliance indicates the number of compliant devices in your network. This means the number of computers that have been patched or remediated against security threats effectively. The distribution and deployment of patches accomplish nothing if your devices are not compliant. So to establish a good patch management strategy, it is important to pay attention to the effectiveness and reach of your patch deployment activities.

Getting over on-call anxiety

You've joined a company, or worked there a little while, and you've just now realised that you'll have to do on-call. You feel like you don't know much about how everything fits together, how are you supposed to fix it at 2am when you get paged? So you're a little nervous. Understandable. Here are a few tips to help you become less nervous.

Get comprehensive monitoring for your Apache Kafka ecosystem instances quickly with Grafana Cloud

We are happy to announce that the Kafka integration is available for Grafana Cloud, our composable observability platform bringing together metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. Apache Kafka is an open source distributed event streaming platform that provides high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.