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Skylight 4.2.0 now includes GraphQL instrumentation! To use it, upgrade the Skylight gem and add 'graphql' to your probes list. We support graphql-ruby versions >= 1.7.

Do you ever find yourself blindsided by the impacts of proposed IT infrastructure changes? There are ways to avoid unexpected consequences of IT change management. In their latest research, Gartner describes how I&O leaders can improve observability, customer experience and business health by starting with AIOps, adding CMDB and, finally, using both working in concert. We summarized the key takeaways of the research for you in this blog.

Lots of businesses struggle with keyword research and finding the best search terms for their business regardless of the ever-present and readily available advice on keyword research. It’s no secret that there’s a lot involved in getting the best search terms that fit your business niche. For starters, it’s essential to understand that a solid keyword research strategy is necessary to guide the overall marketing strategy.

With 900 billion devices running on Windows 10, the future is bright for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). UWP’s strength lies in its ability to adapt itself completely to the native user interface - whether that’s a computer, tablet, Xbox or IoT device. It’s a win-win; users get a consistent experience as they consume across devices, while developers get easier deployments.

October brings Halloween and National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, however, it has also been one of the scariest months for Magecart attack discoveries! Here’s the latest news on Magecart and other website attacks, with insights from our own Security Researcher!

Prometheus’s TSDB (TimeSeries DataBase) stores the recent data in the memory and the old data on persistent storage in the form of blocks. Each block has its own index to map the series to the actual chunks that contain the data samples. During Google Summer of Code 2019, I mentored Alec Wang throughout this work on lifting the size limitations of the index mentioned above. The work described below is up for review and should be merged soon.

In this article we’ll introduce the AWS Cloud Development Kit and explore how it can boost the productivity of your development and infrastructure teams. Infrastructure-as-Code is fast emerging as a de-facto standard for development organizations.

As explained on the Eclipse Che website, “Che brings your Kubernetes application into your development environment and provides an in-browser IDE, allowing you to code, build, test and run applications exactly as they run on production from any machine”. However when deployed in your production environment, those same applications can be monitored using observability tools to understand their performance to help inform future improvements.

OpsRamp was a sponsor of Gartner Symposium in Orlando last week, where CIOs and top executives gathered to share knowledge on the changing role of IT operations, DevOps adoption, and anything to do with cloud migration, monitoring, and management. Gartner analysts and researchers presented on several trends in the world of IT operations, and 10 of them offered key insights into the direction of our industry: