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The 3-Step Communication Game Plan for a Site Outage (One of Our LEAST Favorite Things)
If those von Trapp Family singers from The Sound of Music collectively woke up in a really, really bad mood and decided to write a song about their least favorite things, then it’s a safe bet that not being able to connect to a website would make the list (alongside airline passengers who tilt their seat back, and clam shell plastic packaging).
New in Grafana 8.5: updated panels, new RBAC features, simplified reporting, and more!
Grafana 8.5 is here! Download Grafana 8.5 We’ve worked on a variety of improvements that focus on Grafana’s usability, data visualization, and security. For a full list of new features and capabilities, check out our What’s New in Grafana 8.5 documentation. You can get started with Grafana in minutes with Grafana Cloud. We have free and paid Grafana Cloud plans to suit every use case — sign up for free now.
Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released
London, 21 April 2022. Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now generally available, featuring significant leaps forward in cloud confidential computing, real-time kernel for industrial applications, and enterprise Active Directory, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FIPS and FedRAMP compliance – raising the bar for open source from cloud to edge, IoT and workstations.
Ask Miss O11y: Baggage in OTel
Miss O11y is delighted to welcome our newest band member: Martin Thwaites! Martin has been a member of the Honeycomb user community practically since its inception. He is a UK-based consultant who specializes in helping teams scale up and tackle challenging business problems, and a long-time contributor to the Azure and.NET communities. We think he looks ✨amazing✨ in a tiara.
We Moved Some Data to S3
When clients make HTTP POST requests to ping URLs, Healthchecks captures and stores request body data. You can use this feature to log a command’s output and have it available for inspection later: Same thing, using runitor instead of curl: You can view the request body data in the web UI: Healthchecks also captures and stores email messages, when pinging by email.
Why is Kubernetes Difficult? - Solve All My Problems K8s!
Another post inspired by our weekly internal enablement office hours [should we open this up to the public?] and a few conversations at DevOps Days Atlanta, talking about the experience with Kubernetes can reverberate some sighs. Though in our weekly enablement office hours, the blunt question was asked “well why is Kubernetes so difficult?”. Industry thought leaders would state that Kubernetes is a platform to build other platforms.
How to Write a Custom Terraform Provider Automatically With OpenAPI
So you’ve just been tasked with creating a Terraform Provider (or maybe upgrading an existing one). As you do your research to prepare for the project, you slowly begin to realize, “well this looks like I’ll just be developing a Terraform specific wrapper for a client of my API.” It’s not particularly difficult, but it seems tedious. Is there a better way to build this? Maybe something that can be modular and automated? A way that’s actually stimulating to implement?
Building Embedded Systems at Scale with Device Metrics
As embedded development teams build IoT products, there are often questions about what visibility they'll have into devices once they are in the field. How are the devices performing? Is battery power lasting as long as we planned and marketed? What caused this connectivity issue and how do we fix it? What features are customers using most? To properly assess the value of past and future product investments, embedded developers need to implement diagnostic capabilities that help monitor critical metrics that give them insight into overall fleet performance.
Create Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish on Google Cloud
Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish is released TODAY. Go ahead and try the latest Ubuntu 22.04 in Google Cloud follow this quick tutorial!
Creating custom InfluxDB endpoints
InfluxDB has a feature that lets users invoke scripts using its API. Here, Jay Clifford explains how to use this feature with custom endpoints to improve the functionality, efficiency, and security of your applications.