Not all problems or issues in web development can be detected during development or testing. There are even web application errors that are hard to catch like runtime errors. Most PHP developers or server administrators will just look at the web server or database logs once an issue arises. They would just grep the logs for errors or timestamps in which the error occurred. This method of troubleshooting PHP problems requires a high technical skill and would take a long time to find the root cause.

This week we announced the dates for GrafanaCon LA and officially opened up the CFP! While we can’t predict the weather, we can be almost certain it will be blizzard-free this time around. Also, if you’re going to be in Munich next week for PromCon, please be sure and say hello!

OpManager helps enterprises monitor their network, devices, servers, firewall, and more. While all this helps keep your systems up and running at all times, effectively managing alerts is another challenge altogether. If you’re using a number of IT management tools, it can be hard to address issues like alert noise, inflexible on-call scheduling, and escalations.

You’ve just resolved an incident – congrats! High-fives and #HugOps all around.

Everybody uses third-party code. It saves time and money, increases agility, and lets you leverage the domain expertise of developers outside your company. But how do you monitor it?

Malware / Virus checks from Uptime.com checks your site against two major malware databases. Malware is any type of unwanted or malicious code. Malware includes viruses, which are malware designed to replicate and spread, as well as spyware, adware, trojans and more. A Malware / Virus check uses the Google Safe Browsing List and the Yandex Safe Browsing List to determine if your site has malware.

In a recent tweet, I shared some of the open source tools and technology I use as an engineer at Microsoft. My team helps provide researchers in the Artificial Intelligence and Research Group shared resources to further their research goals. These tend to be both individual and clustered compute resources on both Linux and Windows platforms.

Announcing the following integrations: Kapacitor, Blue Matador, Instana, Zapier, BigPanda, ManageEngine

At GrafanaCon EU in March, we had the pleasure of introducing one of Grafana Labs’ newest team members, Tom Wilkie, who joined as VP, Product with the acquisition of Kausal. And he came bearing gifts: his popular talk about the RED Method of monitoring microservices, which he created in 2015.

You’re an end customer of a managed service provider (MSP). Outsourcing offers you many advantages but can also cause unease due to loss of control. Service assurance can bring peace of mind. So how do you achieve it?