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Log Management and Query Optimization in Kibana

When troubleshooting with the Elastic Stack, Kibana is often the interface you’ll rely on to query and visualize logs. It doesn’t change the data—it just makes it searchable and a bit easier to work with under pressure. If you’re investigating an outage, tracking performance issues, or trying to correlate events across services, Kibana’s log exploration tools can speed up the process, assuming they’re configured and used well.

The Real Cost of DIY Infrastructure Management vs. Enterprise-Ready Solutions

Many IT teams underestimate the true cost of managing infrastructure themselves. At first glance, DIY tools may seem like a cost-effective and flexible solution — but the workflows you build and manage with in-house tooling reveal a host of hidden expenses, inefficiencies, and risks as your IT scales. While it’s not a new problem, it’s one that’s revealing itself more and more clearly as time goes on.

Mastering Global Telemetry: How Cribl Puts You in Control

Let’s face it: managing global data infrastructure isn’t just hard, it’s “I-just-deployed-the-wrong-config-to-prod-again” hard. If you’re a Cribl Admin or Operator working across clouds, continents, and compliance regimes, your to-do list probably reads like a series of increasingly desperate Post-it notes. Sources. Destinations. Pipelines. TLS settings. Proxies. Dev, staging, prod. Repeat. Forever. But what if we told you there’s a better way?

A New Look At Dependencies: Icinga Dependency Views

We’re excited to share that Icinga now offers an improved way to view dependencies. With the releases of Icinga DB Web 1.2.0, Icinga DB 1.4.0, and Icinga 2.15.0 today, any dependencies you’ve set up in Icinga will now be visually represented. Additionally, we’re introducing a new enterprise feature called Icinga Dependency Views, available through an Icinga subscription. This component expands Icinga DB Web with even more powerful capabilities.

DevEx Unpacked 006 - Leadership, Scaling & Serving Developers with Glenn Weinstein

Episode 006: In this episode of DevEx Unpacked, Cloudsmith co-founder Alan Carson sits down with CEO Glenn Weinstein for a deep dive into leadership, growth, and developer-first thinking. Glenn shares his journey from programming on a Commodore PET to founding and selling a startup, his lessons from Twilio, and what drew him to lead Cloudsmith. The two discuss what it takes to build a category-defining company from Belfast, navigating VC funding, and how values like resilience, clarity, and service drive long-term success.

Honeycomb Observability Day London: A Jam-Packed Day of Great Talks

On May 15th, 2025, Honeycomb hosted Observability Day (or O11yDay) in the London financial district. The skies were clear and the weather was wonderful and we had a huge turnout, from our networking breakfast to the happy hour at the end of the day.

On-Call Schedules: Everything You Need to Know

I use Slack daily. It works perfectly fine. Outages rarely happen. Even if they happen, they are resolved quickly. And this is the same for many other tools. But how are they all doing it—Keeping services running and resolving issues quickly? The secret: On-Call Schedules. On-call schedules make sure someone is always available to handle emergencies, so your systems stay reliable.

What we learned from load testing Shopware at scale

We ran real-world load tests across seven different infrastructure plans—from Grid to Dedicated Split—using realistic conversion rates, bot traffic blends, and ERP-driven API imports. The findings were clear: performance scales predictably with resources, but only if your code, cache, and configuration keep up. This blog post walks through key results, why API load is disproportionately expensive, and what metrics matter most. How well does Shopware actually perform under load?