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OpenTelemetry has evolved so much since the 2019 KubeCon North America in San Diego, where I live-demoed OpenTelemetry on the keynote stage and highlighted our alpha to the world. We’re excited to be entering general availability of our Collector and Tracing SDKs soon. While I missed the energy from the packed crowd of over 10,000 technologists cheering me on, it was wonderful that this year’s event was more accessible than ever to a worldwide audience.

Running a business in 2020 requires that you have a digital presence. Building a website is one of the first tasks of a new business's checklist. With that comes registering and buying a domain, website design, web development, and paying for hosting. As of December 2020, there were 1,8+ billion websites in existence, according to Internet Live Stats. With so many websites vying for attention, yours must offer a positive user experience and be quick and easy to navigate.

Monitoring COVID-19 metrics has become essential as the Coronavirus pandemic continues to impact countries across the globe. Mitigating virus impact and spread requires ongoing tracking of metrics such as cases and fatalities. This is what the InfluxDB COVID-19 Monitoring Template does.

If you’re new to the Splunk Dashboards app (beta) on Splunkbase and you’re trying to get started with building beautiful dashboards, this blog series is a great place to start. The Splunk Dashboards app (beta) brings a new dashboard framework, intended to combine the best of Simple XML and Glass Tables, and provides a friendlier experience for creating and editing dashboards.

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we explored the design philosophy behind Splunk Connect for Syslog (SC4S), the goals of the design, and the new HEC-based transport architecture, as well as the rudiments of high-level configuration. We'll now turn our attention to the specifics of SC4S configuration, including a review of the local (mounted) file system layout and the areas in which you'll be working.

Previous installments of this series have given you the overview and configuration details you need to ingest any source that is supported by Splunk Connect for Syslog and configure customizations and overrides that match your enterprise. This leaves one key capability of SC4S that we have not yet covered, and that is extending the platform itself. In this installment, we'll walk through the configuration of an entirely new data source – one that SC4S does address out of the box.

Cloud Foundry is an open source deployment and orchestration platform that gives developers a readymade workflow for launching applications without configuring the underlying infrastructure. VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS) is a commercially available certified platform for Cloud Foundry that provides complementary products like a partner network, auto-scaling CLI, and operations interface, and is used by enterprise-level customers like T-Mobile, The Home Depot, and Comcast.

Microsoft 365 is a suite of cloud-based productivity and communication services that includes Microsoft Office applications (including OneNote and OneDrive) as well as other popular Microsoft tools like Skype and Teams. Microsoft 365 tools and services are at the core of many organizations’ data management and day-to-day workflows, so monitoring activity across your environment is key to making sure that these services remain secure and meet compliance standards.

Waking up at 3 AM to deal with a downed service is a special kind of pain, isn’t it? A cross between annoyance, fury, and half-asleep melodrama. Maybe you curse yourself or your team. It’s ok. We’ve all been there. Here at Uptime.com we want to help you get through life’s painful little moments with some advice on how to choose a web monitoring provider. It’s what we do, so we hope our advice and suggestions will lead you to a good fit.

Amid a year of challenges and change, Grafana made great strides in 2020. Grafana currently boasts more than 600,000 active installations and millions of dashboards in use across the globe. And this year, after 18,000 commits and 3,699 pull requests from 362 contributors, we revealed the next chapter of our observability story.