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Microsoft Enhances Azure Monitor with Query Editor and Support for PromQL
Microsoft has recently released the public preview of the Query Editor in Azure Monitor Metrics, enabling users to create and execute PromQL queries directly within their Azure Monitor workspace. This eliminates the need to switch between tools, streamlining the workflow and boosting productivity when working with various types of metric data.
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Combatting Alert Fatigue at Cloudflare
In a detailed blog post, Monika Singh at Cloudflare explores the stressful environment on-call personnel face. On-call staff frequently deal with numerous alerts, leading to alert fatigue—a state of exhaustion caused by responding to non-prioritised or unclear alerts. To combat this, Cloudflare teams conduct periodic alert analyses to enhance the accuracy and actionability of alerts.
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Falco 0.38.0 Released with Enhanced Driver Selection, Configurations and Real-Time Monitoring
The maintainers of Falco announced its latest version: 0.38.0. This is the first release since its graduation within CNCF.
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Google Cloud Introduces Customizable Dashboards
Google Cloud has recently expanded its customizable observability dashboards to over 10 services, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Dataproc, Dataflow, MySQL System Insights, and a few others.
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Cloudflare AI Gateway Now Generally Available
Cloudflare has recently announced that AI Gateway is now generally available. Described as a unified interface for managing and scaling generative AI workloads, AI Gateway allows developers to gain visibility and control over AI applications.
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Honeycomb Announces Frontend Observability Tool with Improved Real User Monitoring
Honeycomb has introduced an early access program for its new tool, Honeycomb for Frontend Observability, which aims to enhance web application performance. The tool integrates OpenTelemetry instrumentation to collect and analyze Core Web Vitals data. Its main feature, the Web Launchpad, provides deep insights into site performance, helping users identify and resolve issues impacting these metrics.
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AWS Adds Auto-Instrumentation of Python Applications to CloudWatch Application Signals
AWS announced the support of auto-instrumentation of Python applications to the Amazon Cloudwatch Application Signals feature. Application Signals enables the use of AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry to instrument Python applications without code changes. Application Signals allows for the monitoring of service-level objectives (SLOs) and works with several AWS observability and monitoring tooling.
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Enhance Cloud-Based Monitoring with Azure Monitor Pipeline
Azure Monitor is Microsoft's cloud monitoring service for gathering, visualizing, and analyzing telemetry data from applications, infrastructure, and networks. The company recently added a data collection capability in preview with the edge pipeline, which enables the collection and routing of telemetry data before it's sent to the cloud.
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Open-Source APM and Observability Tool Coroot Now GA
The open-source application performance monitoring system Coroot is now generally available. Announced as an alternative to DataDog and NewRelic, the observability tool leverages eBPF for insights into system performance and supports monitoring heterogeneous infrastructures.
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Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices by Martin Thwaites
Martin Thwaites, an observability evangelist, developer, and developer advocate at honeycomb.io, presented on Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices. The session was part of the "Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability" track.
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Microsoft Azure Introduces Retina: a Cloud Native Container Networking Observability Platform
The Microsoft Azure Container Networking team recently announced an open-source project named Retina. This cloud-native container networking observability platform allows DevOps engineers and administrators to visualize, debug, and analyze workload traffic across diverse environments.
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Expedia Speeds up Flights Search with Micro Frontends and GraphQL Optimizations
Expedia made flight search faster by up to 52% (page usable time) by applying a range of optimizations to web and mobile applications. To support these improvements, the company improved the observability of its applications. Expedia Flights web application has been migrated to Micro Frontend Architecture (MFA) to allow flexibility, reusability, and better optimization.
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Uber Builds Scalable Chat Using Microservices with GraphQL Subscriptions and Kafka
Uber replaced a legacy architecture built using the WAMP protocol with a new solution that takes advantage of GraphQL subscriptions. The main drivers for creating a new architecture were challenges around reliability, scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution.
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AI and FinOps Predicted to Lead Observability Innovation in 2024
In recently published articles, three large observability companies have made predictions for the trends we will see in the observability area in 2024 and beyond. These contributions suggest that the fields of AI Integration, FinOps, OpenTelemetry and Security and Governance will impact observability significantly in the year ahead.
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Grafana v10.3: Visualizations, Alerting, Management and Log Analysis Improvements
Grafana 10.3 introduces a range of enhancements spanning visualization, instance management, alerting, and log analysis. These upgrades include improved tooltips and zoom functionality for data navigation, alongside features for tracking metric changes and visualizing system health. Additionally, improvements in alerting and log analysis are also available.