The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many companies to require employees to work from home. It’s a new normal for many, but at Grafana Labs our team has always recruited and operated with a remote-first culture in mind. To help everyone transition to a home office environment, we launched a new WFH series in which Grafana team members have been sharing their best advice for staying productive at home – yes, even if you have kids around.

The impact of APM is heavily measured by the depth of understanding it generates across IT environments. However, it also delivers other valuable benefits.

In IT environments, all software applications and systems produce logs with varying levels of details or context about different events. These log files are automatically generated, and you can see them as a time-stamped record of events. Traditionally, organizations maintained logs locally or in a self-hosted setup. This was done primarily to meet various compliance mandates.

To deploy and run Linux on System z, virtualization, multi-layer virtualization using LPARs and z/VM is required . z/VM is used as the second layer virtualization within in LPARs to allow hundreds or thousands of virtual machines within a single physical system. The NiCE zLinux Management Pack for SCOM provides monitoring of Linux distributions on the IBM System z platform using Microsoft System Center.

This week, we are glad to have with us IT Consultant and knowledge-sharing enthusiast Bert Pinoy. Here, Bert shows us how to integrate SquaredUp with external APIs, using the example of the MP he created, Uptimerobot Management Pack.

IT departments have experienced numerous changes in the way they manage and control user devices. Starting with the traditional CRT monitor-based computers, to modern smartphones, technological developments have been remarkable. Additionally, with the COVID-19 pandemic, employees are restricted to work from home, making the IT administration routines challenging for system administrators.

Among the updates that we ignore most are driver updates, and sometimes for good reason. There have been plenty of cases wherein a driver update caused more harm than good. This could be due to two reasons. One, the user blindly clicked the update without taking a minute to read what the update actually achieves, or two, the user was not equipped to understand what the update achieves. Whatever the reason, one thing is clear: we cannot leave the cybersecurity of an organization up to chance.

Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for APM highlights the proven capabilities we’re uniquely positioned to deliver in a tech landscape that’s constantly in flux.

I’m at an interesting point in my career. I’ve ridden all the rides and managed all the technology things like most ops engineers with some miles. Eventually, you realize—with a few notable exceptions—IT technology is a cycle in which enterprises reimplement the same business functions over and over again. And this realization forces a change.