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Observability, Meet Natural Language Querying with Query Assistant

Engineers know best. No machine or tool will ever match the context and capacity that engineers have to make judgment calls about what a system should or shouldn’t do. We built Honeycomb to augment human intuition, not replace it. However, translating that intuition has proven challenging. A common pitfall in many observability tools is mandating use of a query language, which seems to result in a dynamic where only a small percentage of power users in an organization know how to use it.

The Future of Website Development: Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are two cutting-edge technologies that are revolutionizing the field of website development. AI refers to the ability of computers to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as recognizing speech, understanding natural language, and making decisions based on data. On the other hand, ML is a subset of AI that involves training algorithms to learn from data and make predictions or decisions based on that learning.

Unpacking the Hype: Navigating the Complexities of Advanced Data Analytics in Cybersecurity

The cybersecurity industry is experiencing an explosion of innovative tools designed to tackle complex security challenges. However, the hype surrounding these tools has outpaced their actual capabilities, leading many teams to struggle with their complexity and struggle to extract value from their investment.

Ensure release safety with feature flag tracking in Datadog RUM

Developers and teams who want to deploy new code often and safely leverage feature flags to decouple code deployments from feature releases. Feature flags enable teams to release new features to a subset of users, making it possible to test a new feature’s impact on users and ensuring that developers can easily roll back the feature if it causes downstream issues.

30 Best Network Performance Monitoring Software of 2023

In today's digital age, network performance monitoring (NPM) software has become a critical software for businesses of all sizes. With so many options available, choosing the right NPM software can be a daunting task. This article aims to guide you through the process of finding the right NPM software for your specific needs.

Code Instrumentation in Cloud Native Applications

Cloud native is the de facto standard approach to deploying software applications today. It is optimized for a cloud computing environment, fosters better structuring and management of software deployments. Unfortunately, the cloud native approach also poses additional challenges in code instrumentation that are detrimental to developer productivity.

Using Practical Alerting to Stay on Top of Teams Call Quality - Part 2

Running your business using Teams isn’t without its challenges. We already did a post here about some of the Microsoft Teams alerts IT teams need to be alerted to sooner rather than later. But, because of how complex large Teams setups are, we’ve got a few more to add to the collection. Today, we’re focusing on the Microsoft-specific challenges you might face.

Kentique - The Fragrance of Observability

What does observability smell like? For ages, humans have relied on sight to observe network, cloud, container, and data center traffic. Kentik is proud to usher in the next step in the evolution of network observability. Welcome to the age of scent! Introducing Kentique, a new fragrance from the creators of Kentik. Whether managing network infrastructure in the server room or entertaining guests at an AWS re:Invent afterparty, you need to smell the part – an aromatic infusion of routers, clouds, clusters, and telemetry dancing in a symphony of observability.

We tell you with lots of humor why monitoring your equipment is no laughing matter

Let’s face it, enough chit chat, without monitoring, your computer walks on a tightrope, 30 floors high and without safety net: a false movement and BAM! It’s over! Brains omelette for the pigeons of your neighborhood! Therefore, today, in the sacred and glaucous Pandora FMS blog, we bring you a series of testimonies, of real cases, sent by our esteemed users, where we ask them to tell us their miseries in exchange for taking the only moral possible.