We recently hosted a Twitter Space, and a question came in regarding speaking to executives about instrumenting for observability. It’s a great topic we love expanding on. Here’s the answer we provided.

It’s no secret that application containerization has revolutionized the digital world as we know it by providing a transient gateway into elastic infrastructure that can scale and grow as needed. Where traditional virtualization was all about creating a single homogenous entity, containers are self-contained units of software, able to run in just about any environment, making them extremely portable.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was some attribute you could query and set on a device? Then you could automagically configure that device based on that attribute that you just set for fully automated device onboarding! Welcome to Dynamic Device Attribute Pollers and Auto-Configuration Parameters! Rolls right off the tongue doesn’t it?

More than 20,000 companies around the world use Ansible as their Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tool. With the rising popularity towards managing infrastructure using IaC and config management tools, Ansible is one of the best open source tools to choose from. That is why we are excited to announce a new Grafana Ansible collection available to all Grafana Cloud users, including those in the generous free tier.

Following on from the recent launch of our Anomaly Advisor feature, and in keeping with our approach to machine learning, here is a detailed Python notebook outlining exactly how the machine learning powering the Anomaly Advisor actually works under the hood. Or if you’d rather watch a video walkthrough of the notebook then check out below. Try it for yourself, get started by signing in to Netdata and connecting a node.

Colleges and universities face immense IT challenges. The end user base is regularly overturning with students coming and going. And residential students are just part of the problem. Increasingly, schools support extensive distance learning, which only gained ground thanks to COVID. Now that remote work and distance learning are the new mandates, there are even more difficult challenges for Higher Education IT to deal with.