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Stories, guides, and lessons from the world of observability

Why We Auto-Delete Slack Messages at Last9

Why We Auto-Delete Slack Messages at Last9

At Last9, we auto-delete Slack DMs after 2 days. This pushes teams to improve documentation, reduce tribal knowledge, and own accountability.

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Nishant Modak

Nishant Modak

Static Threshold vs. Dynamic Threshold Alerting

Static Threshold vs. Dynamic Threshold Alerting

What's the difference between Static Threshold vs Dynamic Threshold Alerting? Do you really know when and how to use each threshold type?

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Last9

Last9

Why MTTR should be a ‘business’ metric

Why MTTR should be a ‘business’ metric

A key challenge is aligning engineering health metrics with business goals. How can business measure engineering, and engineering show its value?

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Sidu Ponnappa

Sidu Ponnappa

Observability - That Last 9

Observability - That Last 9

TL;DR: A stitch in time, saves 9. A discussion on the key blocks of observability.

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Akash Saxena

Akash Saxena

How we won Dukaan over

How we won Dukaan over

5 meetings. 1 month. Subhash and his team’s velocity on decision-making, moving fast, and radical candor, are a breath of fresh air in the Indian startup ecosystem.

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Aniket Rao

Aniket Rao

Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality

Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality

When dealing with Time Series databases, I always got confused with Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality. Here’s an explanation as I have understood it.

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Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma

How to calculate HTTP content-length metrics on cli

How to calculate HTTP content-length metrics on cli

A simple guide to crunch numbers for understanding overall HTTP content length metrics.

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Saurabh Hirani

Saurabh Hirani

Last9 completes SOC II Type 2 Certification

Last9 completes SOC II Type 2 Certification

The comprehensive audit validates Last9 as a trusted SRE partner; a crucial process to work with highly regulated industries.

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Abhi Puranam

Abhi Puranam

Comparing Popular Time Series Databases

Comparing Popular Time Series Databases

A comparison of all the popular time series databases. Prometheus, Influx, M3Db, Last9.

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Abhi Puranam

Abhi Puranam