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The world is moving towards a data-driven society, resulting in businesses gathering more data to leverage for profit. This data is either in structured forms like JSON/CSV/XML or unstructured forms like text written on a notepad or typed texts. Regardless of the data’s formatting, the important thing is the information it contains. Various tools in the market extract data from different agents and platforms that will improve your metric monitoring system.

Grafana Labs and New Relic have a long history of working together to drive cross-functionality so joint customers can benefit from using Grafana and New Relic together. The New Relic data source plugin for Grafana — which is available to users with a Grafana Cloud account or with a Grafana Enterprise license — is no exception. In this quick tutorial video, we’ll not only show you how easy it is to configure the New Relic data source plugin in Grafana.

When is the last time you updated your CI/CD workflow? A year ago? Never? You are not alone, my friends. Reconfiguring workflows can be one of the most daunting tasks for DevOps practitioners. But with new opportunities to benefit from CircleCI plans, there’s one simple and effective place to start: understanding concurrency and parallelism. Using concurrency and parallelism can cut your build times significantly. But you need to know what they are and how to find them in your config file.