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How to not lose your s#!t during an incident

Often I am asked how I always seem calm and poised during incidents. This persona is not entirely accurate as I am more like a duck in these scenarios, calm on top of the water, but paddling frantically under the water. I have learned some tricks that have helped me stay calm and drive incidents to resolution.

OpenTracing: Jaeger as Distributed Tracer

In the previous two parts of OpenTracing series, we provided a good OpenTracing overview, explaining what OpenTracing is and does, how it works and what it aims to achieve and looked at Zipkin – a popular open-source distributed tracer. In this blog post, we will look at Jaeger, a newer open-source distributed tracer developed under the CNCF umbrella.

Announcing Sensu 2.0 Beta

We’re excited to announce that Sensu 2.0 Beta is now publicly available for testing! Sensu 2.0 is easier to install and operate, requiring only a single sensu-backend process and sensu-agent process that communicate directly with each other. Our new API-driven approach gives you more flexibility when integrating Sensu into your existing infrastructure and tools. We believe this newest release is built to scale and meet the needs not only of your infrastructure today, but for years to come.

PagerDuty Microsoft VSTS Integration Installation and Test Video

View this installation and test video to learn how to enable and test out the PageDuty Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services Integration. Code, own, and manage your application better. Accelerate service delivery, reduce delivery cycle times, and improve visibility across all of your services and Azure infrastructure.

We've come a long way together ... Icinga turns 9

Born to be wild. We’ve been busy with bringing Elasticstack integration into full shape with the Icinga 2 feature and the corresponding Icinga Web 2 module. Both of them were thankfully funded and sponsored by VW. Elasticsearch 6 support is sponsored by a customer too, this will hit 2.9 later in June. Earlier in 2017 we’ve also released the Logstash output for Icinga.

PagerDuty Helps Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Customers Manage Incidents in Real Time and Migrate Confidently to the Cloud

SAN FRANCISCO – May 7, 2018 – Today at Microsoft Build 2018, PagerDuty, a global leader in digital operations management, announced integration of PagerDuty’s real-time operations management platform with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services, Azure’s integrated suite of DevOps services.

MTTD vs. MTTF vs. MTBF vs. MTTR

Development and operations (DevOps) teams must measure their day-to-day progress. Otherwise, these teams won’t know how they are performing at a given moment. Worst of all, DevOps teams that lack data-driven insights risk falling behind, missing service-level agreement (SLA) requirements and encountering various service problems that could put a company, its employees and its customers in danger.