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Honeycomb Hosted MCP Brings Observability Data into the IDE
Honeycomb has launched its hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP), giving developers real-time access to observability data inside IDEs and AI tools like GitHub Copilot. Available as a managed service on AWS Marketplace, it removes the need for self-hosting and streamlines debugging by surfacing traces, metrics, and logs without context-switching.
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When Unchecked Autoscaling Generates a $120K Cloud Spend
In the wake of a staggering $120K bill due to unchecked autoscaling during a DDoS attack, industry experts stress the necessity of robust FinOps strategies. Key recommendations include capping resource limits and utilizing real-time alerts to prevent financial disasters. Balancing cost control with system availability is crucial to safeguard modern cloud environments.
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Grafana 12.1 Brings Built-in Diagnostics and Enhanced Alerting
Grafana 12.1 is here, elevating system reliability and alert management with features like Grafana Advisor for health checks, a revamped alerting interface, and trendline transformations for smarter data visualization. Enhanced dashboard interactivity and improved variable handling empower teams to scale efficiently. Experience the new era of Grafana on Cloud or self-hosted!
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Improving Mobile Test Automation with Continuous Integration, Central Logging, and Metrics Analysis
Continuous integration can enhance automated mobile testing. Test data from multiple mobile devices running parallel tests can be consolidated to support monitoring. Jira tickets from manual testing can trigger the build process to ensure that testers will have the correct software version to do the manual testing.
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CO2.js Helps Developers Track Their Application’s Carbon Footprint
The Green Web Foundation published a new release of CO2.js, a JavaScript library that enables developers to access the Green Web API and estimate the carbon emissions associated with their apps, websites, and software. CO2.js supports developers who want to create a carbon budget for their site or include carbon footprint estimation in monitoring tools.
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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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Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API for Enhanced Resource Insight Gathering
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API, which makes resource insight gathering more efficient by providing developers with the capability to retrieve the metric data for up to 50 resource IDs in the same subscription and region in a single batch API call, thus improving query throughput and reducing the risk of throttling.
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Grafana Cloud Kubernetes Monitoring with Machine Learning Predictions
Managing cloud costs can be challenging as Kubernetes fleets scale. To address this issue, Grafana Cloud has introduced a cost-monitoring feature within Kubernetes Monitoring. In particular, Grafana Cloud’s Kubernetes Monitoring now offers ML predictions for CPU and memory usage.
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SapMachine Vitals Provides Operating System and JVM Statistics
SapMachine Vitals provides a monitoring tool that keeps a condensed history of operating system and JVM statistics. The feature is always on and may be used to retrieve information such as heap usage, Metaspace size, container memory statistics and limits, the number of classes loaded and the amount of threads spawned.
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Google Previews Log Analytics Feature in Its Cloud Logging Service
Google recently announced the preview of a new feature called Log Analytics in its Cloud Logging service, allowing companies to analyze data collected from their cloud environments.
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Applying Observability to Increase Delivery Speed and Flow in Teams
When we design team and departmental processes, we want to know what’s happening in the software teams. Asking team members to provide information or fill in fields in tools adds a burden and distorts reality. Setting up observability in the software can provide alternative insights in a less intrusive way. Observability in the software can be an asset to organizing teams.
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Effectively Monitoring Your Monitoring - Miedwar Meshbesher on Using Vigilance Controls
With many open-source and paid tools available to do the job, it can be relatively straightforward to make sure that your systems are monitored properly. But, how does a team make sure that these systems are working as described, and alert the team effectively that there’s a problem with the system that is supposed to be keeping an eye on things?
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Full-Stack Observability with Grafana and Azure Monitor
Microsoft recently introduced Azure Managed Grafana in preview, including new Grafana integrations with Azure Monitor. With Azure Managed Grafana, customers can now view their Azure monitoring data in Grafana dashboards and have new out-of-the-box Azure Monitor dashboards.
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Elastic Releases Terraform Providers for the Elastic Stack and Elastic Cloud
Elastic has released their official Terraform provider for configuring the Elastic Stack. The provider enables configuring ElasticSearch, Kibana, Fleet, and other Elastic Stack components. This follows closely on their release of the Elastic Cloud Terraform provider.
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Microsoft Open-Sources GCToolkit to Tap into JVM GC Logs
By open sourcing GCToolkit, Microsoft promises to tap into the rich information stored within the JVM’s GC logs. The tool promises to provide mechanisms to parse, analyse and visualise the GC log files in a human friendly manner.