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Cron Monitoring Now Supports Sentry SDKs, Multi-Environments, Timezones and More

Last year we introduced Sentry Cron Monitoring (beta) to help developers get code-level context and performance trends for their scheduled jobs. While Crons remains in beta, we’ve heard your feedback over the past few months and want to share some big improvements we’ve shipped. In this post, we’ll cover how we’ve simplified the setup process by integrating Crons into our SDKs and automating monitor setup for select frameworks.

Kubernetes Architecture Part 2: Control Plane Components

This Kubernetes Architecture series covers the main components used in Kubernetes and provides an introduction to Kubernetes architecture. After reading these blogs, you’ll have a much deeper understanding of the main reasons for choosing Kubernetes as well as the main components that are involved when you start running applications on Kubernetes. This blog series covers the following topics.

Tire Profiles thanks Site24x7 for its incredible support in monitoring its hybrid cloud deployments

Jamie MacFarland, director of system administration and security for the US-based tire alignment industry leader, Tire Profiles LLC, uses Site24x7 to monitor deployments spread across multiple cloud services and on-premises servers. MacFarland praises Site24x7 for its single-pane-of-glass view for monitoring all its cloud data, its AppLogs that support an exhaustive list of log types, and the swift and responsive support team. "We are delighted and can't imagine doing our business successfully without ".

Why You Should Care About Microsoft Teams Monitoring

With the rapid growth of hybrid work, the need for collaboration tools that centralize audio, video, chat and documents have never been more critical. Most departments in your organization use Microsoft Teams to conduct business; VIPs conducting executive meetings in your Teams Meeting Rooms, Sales organizing calls and meetings with their prospects, Customer support teams contacting your customers and scheduling potential meetings to help them, and R&D organizing their meetings.

Setting Up a Data Loop using Cribl Search and Stream Part 1: Setting up the Data Lake Destination

In the very first video of the series, we delve into the concept of a data loop and why it is beneficial to use Cribl Search and Cribl Stream to optimize the use of a data lake. The video gives a concise overview of Cribl Search and Cribl Stream, and how they work in tandem to create a data loop. We then provide step-by-step instructions on how to configure the Cribl Stream "Amazon S3 Data Lake" Destination to transfer data from Stream to an S3 bucket that has been optimized specifically for Cribl Search's access. Finally, we demonstrate sending sample data to the S3 bucket and present a before-and-after view of the bucket to showcase the impact of the test data.

How to Test Network Performance: Tips, Tricks & Techniques

Welcome, network admins, to an exciting exploration of how to test network performance! In the world of SaaS, Cloud computing, SD-WAN, and UC apps, a strong and reliable network infrastructure is the backbone of successful operations. Whether you're a small startup or an established enterprise, understanding how to test and optimize your network's performance is crucial for staying ahead of the competition.

Setting Up a Data Loop using Cribl Search and Stream Part 2: Configuring Cribl Search

In the second video of our series, we delve into the nuts and bolts of configuring Cribl Search to access the data that we've stored in the S3 bucket. The video guides you step-by-step through the process of configuring the Search S3 dataset provider by using the Stream Data Lake destination as a model for the authentication information. From there, we proceed to walk through the process of creating a Dataset to access the Provider that we've just established. To wrap things up, we demonstrate how to search through the test data that we've previously stored in the S3 bucket.

Sematext Update Review Episode 2 | New Product Features

The first half of 2023 has been a fantastic year thus far. We are super excited to share with you some of the newest updates and improvements we have made to your favorite monitoring tools inside of the sematext cloud. Whether you work in DevOps for a multi-billion dollar company or if you are a freelancer who owns an online business, Sematext has the perfect monitoring solution for you. Today, we will discuss our new OpenSearch integration, Changes we have made to Sematext Synthetics for HTTP monitoring, and UI changes we have made to the events tool.