Stephen Watts
CVE Severity & How To Respond To CVEs in Builds
CVEs can be serious enough to reject a build. These approaches and best practices help you assess CVE severity and determine how to manage a build.
Kubernetes 101: How To Set Up “Vanilla” Kubernetes
Kubernetes 101: Set up the most basic K8s cluster — also known as Vanilla Kubernetes — with this hands-on tutorial that gets you started quickly and easily.
Network vs. Application Performance Monitoring: What's The Difference?
Monitoring networks and application performance are different practices. Understand the changes and see how, together, both can offer end-to-end observability.
State of Kubernetes: Report Roundup
In this blog post, we’ll take a look at a variety of surveys and data that collectively describe the Kubernetes landscape.
Monitoring Windows Infrastructure: Tools, Apps, Metrics & Best Practices
Learn how to monitor your Windows infrastructure, including the best tools and apps to use, the top metrics to monitor and how to analyze those metrics.
NoOps Explained: How Does NoOps Compare with DevOps?
Take a look at NoOps, the concept of automating IT and development: how it works, pros and cons and whether it’s an evolution — or the end — of DevOps.
Common DevOps Roles and Responsibilities
Understand the core principles of DevOps — collaboration, automation, transparency and accountability — to see how DevOps can help you drive business value.
How To Prepare for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Interview
Prepare for your SRE interviews. These are common questions and answers to expect in any site reliability engineer interview.
Time Series Forecasting Use Cases and Anomaly Detection
Understand time series forecasting — a way to or predict behaviors based on historical, timestamped data — with anomaly detection to prevent IT problems.
Continuous Performance Management Basics
In this blog post, we will walk you through how to develop a continuous performance management playbook for your business.
On-Premises Application Monitoring: An Introduction
This blog post explains how to approach on-premises application performance monitoring as part of a broader cloud-native performance optimization strategy.
Kubernetes Monitoring: An Introduction
To help you get started with Kubernetes performance management, this article offers an overview of which metrics you’ll want to monitor and how to collect them.
CI/CD Pipeline Monitoring: An Introduction
This blog post explains how to monitor the CI/CD delivery pipeline and how to correlate that data with other metrics in order to achieve optimal overall performance of your applications.
API Testing vs Monitoring: What's The Difference?
Learn about the difference between API monitoring and testing, and when to use which approach in this blog post.
API Testing: An Introduction
Learn why API testing is critical for digital businesses and the basics of how and what test in this blog post.
Kubernetes Logging: Introduction & Challenges
Learn the basics of Kubernetes logging and the role that logging plays in your overall observability strategy in this blog post.
API & HTTP Headers: How to Use Request Headers in API Checks
Learn about API & HTTP request headers and how to use request headers in API checks in this blog post.
SRE Metrics: Four Golden Signals of Monitoring
Learn about the critical SRE metrics and how the four golden signals define what it means for a system to be “healthy” in this blog post.
