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Using Observability with Kubernetes to Automate Site Reliability Engineering

Sep 8, 2022 By StackState In StackState

In this video, Anthony Evans, solution architect, explains how the StackState topology-powered observability platform can help SREs to automate site reliability, putting their organizations on the path to becoming a zero-downtime enterprise. See how StackState helps to unify and correlate data across your stack, visualize your entire IT environment, instantly pinpoint root cause, reduce alert storms and with AIOps capabilities, even prevent problems proactively. It's all here!

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What Is Incident Management? Everything You Need To Know

Sep 7, 2022 By Myra Nizami In Blameless

Incidents happen, so how do you handle them? We explain incident management, how to prioritize incidents, and the process involved to resolve the incident. ‍

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What is a Security Operation Center and how do SOC teams work?

Sep 6, 2022 By Vishal Padghan In Squadcast

With the growing complexity of IT environments, it is essential to have robust security processes that can safeguard IT environments from cyber threats. In this blog, we will explore how security operation centers (SOCs), help you monitor, identify and prevent cyber threats to safeguard your IT environments. This blog covers the following pointers.

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What are the four Golden Signals?

Sep 2, 2022 By Andre Newman In Gremlin

When it comes to building reliable and scalable software, few organizations have as much authority and expertise as Google. Their Site Reliability Engineering Handbook, first published in 2016, details their practices to maintain reliability as Google scaled. But when you have over a million servers running thousands of services across more than twenty data centers, how do you monitor them in a consistent, logical, and relevant way?

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How to add a Golden Signal to a service in Gremlin RM

Sep 2, 2022 By Gremlin In Gremlin

In this video, we show you how to add a Golden Signal to a service. Gremlin uses your Golden Signals to ensure your services are still healthy and responsive during reliability tests. You can configure Golden Signals to use an existing monitor in your observability tools, such as Datadog, New Relic, or Prometheus. We recommend adding all four Golden Signals to each of your services to ensure comprehensive coverage.

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How to add a Service to Gremlin Reliability Management (RM)

Sep 2, 2022 By Gremlin In Gremlin

This short demo video shows you how to add a Kubernetes service to Gremlin Reliability Management (RM). We'll walk you through selecting the parts of your infrastructure that make up your service, identifying processes for dependency detection, and adding your Golden Signals.

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Introduction to Gremlin Reliability Management (RM)

Sep 2, 2022 By Gremlin In Gremlin

Gremlin Reliability Management helps teams standardize and automate reliability, one service at a time. In this video, we walk through the platform by showing you how to add your services to Gremlin, integrate your Golden Signals, run reliability tests, and generate reliability scores.

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Software Metrics Every SRE Team Should Measure

Aug 31, 2022 By Myra Nizami In Blameless

Software metrics give important insight into the performance of your product, but which ones matter most to SRE teams? How do you decide which metrics to track?

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Round Robin Escalation: An Efficient Way to Distribute On-Call Responsibilities

Aug 30, 2022 By Vishal Padghan In Squadcast

Nowadays, organizations address a high volume of incidents everyday. With so much happening, responders can be overwhelmed by the volume of incidents and may end up de-prioritizing certain important incidents. Hence, it is important to have an efficient on-call scheduling and escalation process in place. In this blog, we will explore how Round Robin Escalations can help distribute on-call load and set up efficient on-call schedules. This blog covers the following pointers.

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What is reliability engineering?

Aug 30, 2022 By Aimee Pearcy In Reliably

Reliability engineering focuses on the ability of systems to perform as it is intended to and function without failure in a specified environment, for the required time duration. Reliability engineering can be applied across the entire lifecycle of software development. It is designed to increase the dependability of a product by detecting potential reliability issues early in the software development cycle, and correcting causes of failure that do occur.

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