The one certainty you will find in IT, developer, and SRE roles is that things always change! One hot topic in DevOps communities is observability. A long word, you may be wondering what it really means and how you can add it to your skillset. Here’s a quick primer to get you going on your path to observability. Where did the term “observability” come from? The concept of observability dates back to the mid-20th century, where it was originally used in control theory to describe how the internal
This blog post was written by Daniel Hoang, developer advocate from Akuity. Shipping complex applications at high velocity lead to increased failures. Longer pipelines, scattered microservices, and more code inherently lead to bigger complexity where small mistakes may cost you big time. We can’t promise that this blog post will help you get rid of failed deployments, however, we can promise that automated verification of deployments using Argo Rollouts and Elastic Observability will minimize da
When was the last time you visited a website and got frustrated because you had trouble using it? Maybe the site was using WebGL technology that your browser didn’t support, you couldn’t read its text due to it being so small. If you think back to these annoying experiences where you functionally could not navigate a site, chances are you’ve experienced inaccessibility in one form or another.
This is not to say that all frustrating experiences are inaccessible, but there are definitely overlaps
Version 8.1.2 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. This release fixes three notable issues in our Observability and Security solutions:
a bug where the APM Server would run out of memory due to lock contention under specific circumstances and when under heavy load. Users running APM Server versions 8.0.1 up to 8.1.1 are advised to upgrade immediately; a bug that prevents Real User Monitoring data from showing up in the APM UI when capturing p
Version 7.17.2 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 7.17.2 over the previous patch versions in 7.17.x. This version also contains fixes to the Upgrade Assistant for 7.17 to 8.x upgrades in the presence of deprecated settings: Investigate severity of upgrading to 8.0.1 despite terminal deprecation of old features Add deprecation logging as step on overview page For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of chang
