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Unhealthy code? Don't rely on customers to tell you

Does your software deployment process require that someone on your team manually checks different dashboards to verify that everything's okay? Do they actually do that when they deploy? Do you rely on customer complaints to notify you when something's wrong? There's a better way: Sleuth CTO and co-founder Don Brown shows you how to track several health measures automatically in Sleuth.

Our A, B, Cs of external communications

Communication carries more weight than ever before. Businesses are so much more connected to their customers given the number of mediums they can communicate through; Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and even TikTok. Because of this, it's essential to prioritize these lines of communication throughout your day-to-day. Some might even say that over-communicating is the best way forward. Why? No one likes a company that appears simply like a black box with zero insight into what's happening.

NetOps for Application Developers: Understanding the Importance of Network Operations in Modern Development

True observability requires visibility into both the application and network layers. For companies reliant on multi-zonal cloud networks, the days of NetOps existing as a team siloed away from application developers are over.

Now you can forward logs to external endpoints from within the Console!

Our aim, like always, is to help users thrive. We want them to receive real value from all that we deliver through our various features. And it’s equally important to offer flexibility by providing all different ways to use those features. This way, you’re free to use the feature in the way that's most convenient. Driving this vision of ours, well, forward, we have now extended our Logs Forwarding experience from CLI to within the Console.

Secrets Management: Use Cases, Best Practices, and Tools

To provide proper visibility into the health and status of your systems, observability tools require access to the internal and external services you’re using, and Sensu is no different. In the past, this could mean exposing sensitive authentication credentials like usernames and passwords with local environment variables or even by including the secret information in your monitoring configuration.

Tutorial: Querying InfluxDB with SQL and Grafana

Thank to a new and improved core database engine, InfluxDB now supports native SQL queries. Leveraging Flight SQL, InfluxData Developer Advocate, Jay Clifford, walks through how to set up querying InfluxDB using Grafana. He shows you how to configure Flight SQL and how to build a dashboard in Grafana for visualizing industrial IoT data.

Flowmon: How to Choose a Network Observability Platform

Individual EU Member States are expected to transpose the NIS2 and RCE directives into national What are the key characteristics organisations should have to shift from network monitoring to network observability? The need is to have more of a platform approach. Let´s see how to choose a Network Observability Platform to succesfully manage the networks in highly distributed environments.

WhatsUp Gold: How to Choose a Network Observability Platform

Individual EU Member States are expected to transpose the NIS2 and RCE directives into national What are the key characteristics organisations should have to shift from network monitoring to network observability? The need is to have more of a platform approach. Let´s see how to choose a Network Observability Platform to succesfully manage the networks in highly distributed environments.