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How GripMatix created the topology overview in their SquaredUp Dashboard Pack

We're delighted to welcome Merijn Overgaauw, Service Monitoring and Automation Consultant at GripMatix, back for another guest blog. This time, he explains the creative process behind the useful topology overview of GripMatix's latest SquaredUp Dashboard Pack. Fascinating stuff!

How We're (Ab)using Hashicorp's Consul at Grafana Labs

Hashicorp’s Consul service is a distributed, highly available system that provides a service mesh solution, including service discovery, configuration, and segmentation functionality. Cortex uses Consul’s KV store to share information that’s necessary for distributing data to its components. While writing to Consul has been useful at Grafana Labs, we’ve found that as we expanded the operations, problems started arising.

DataSource Spotlight: Proactive Visibility of LDAP Security

At LogicMonitor, we believe our platform enables our customers to See More, Know More, and Do More, to keep up with the rapid pace of change in business today. The following is an interesting use case that illustrates how LogicMonitor can provide quick insight to enable modern IT teams to work proactively and perform at maximum operational efficiency.

Are Digital Transformation Initiatives Secretly to Blame for Rising Number of IT Outages?

The race is on to turn data into useful information. Company executives across a wide range of departments are increasingly tasked with modernization and digital transformation initiatives. But what is digital transformation in IT? IT pros are racing to keep up with rapid industry changes and must consider efforts such as digitizing assets, restructuring department goals to focus on providing a seamless customer experience, or shifting from on-premises to public cloud.

What is Autodiscover for Filebeat? And why do we need it?

Microservices constantly change in containerized environs, making pod or node identification and their logging more of a challenge. Autodiscover simplifies monitoring movements in these sorts of environments—places like Kubernetes and Docker. Autodiscover allows you to track pods and adapt settings as changes happen in your environment.

Transport Layer Security Termination In Rancher 2.x, Part Two

In this blog series, we’ll explore a few ways that Rancher uses of TLS certificates. TLS, or Transport Layer Security, is a cryptographic protocol used to secure network communication. It is the successor to the now-deprecated Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. You can expect to walk away with an understanding of how TLS integrates into various Rancher components, and how you can prepare your environment to properly leverage TLS in Rancher.

Zendesk and PagerDuty: Helping Teams Work Together in Harmony

Your customers’ expectations are changing rapidly—they expect on-demand and personalized support whenever they interact with businesses. If one business doesn’t meet their expectations, they can easily order online from a different company, change service providers, or download a different app.