Whether it is due to the scare of the Coronavirus, inability to hire locally with the competitive job market, or the growing trend of offering flexible workstyles, more organizations are offering work from home or remote working options. As someone who has worked remotely for the past 10 years, I know more often than not my days start sooner than most in the office and end later as I have no commute to worry about.

It’s common for modern businesses to rely on 2,000+ custom-developed applications and it requires substantial cost, time and effort to ensure 24/7 optimal performance of those applications. IT Ops teams depend on advanced application performance monitoring (APM) to scale up key business capabilities and boost innovation. But the APM tools that provide the deepest insights for critical applications are extremely expensive and are cumbersome to deploy.

Founded in 2000, the Cardano Group is a privately-owned, purpose-built risk and investment specialist — and a financial pioneer. It is widely recognized as a market leader in the provisioning of specialized services to private-sector and collective pension programs in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Cardano has recently become the third largest retail pension provider in the UK after its recent acquisition of NOW: Pensions.

Using dashboards in Cloud Monitoring makes it easy for you to track important system metrics. Creating dashboards by hand in the Monitoring UI can be a time-consuming process, especially if you want to use them in multiple different Monitoring Workspaces. With the recent GA announcement for the Cloud Monitoring dashboards API, you now have a way to programmatically create dashboards.

After a closed beta test of 3 months, we’re finally making Uptime Monitoring in iLert generally available. And the best of all, uptime monitoring will be included on all our existing plans at no additional cost.

In this guest article, SRE experts John Arundel and Andy Pearson show you how to connect your Checkly data to Prometheus and Grafana, as part of an integrated observability pipeline.

Top Weekly Reads in IT I&O The OpsRamp Monitor is OpsRamp’s top weekly review of interesting developments and emerging trends in IT operations. In this issue: It’s been a week. Four U.S. presidential contenders dropped out of the race. Coronavirus got worse. Several major tech conferences have been canceled. And the stock market rollercoaster ride continued. Let’s refresh with some good news: your career.

Assets were one of the biggest additions in Sensu Go. How have new and experienced Sensu users reacted to Sensu assets as a workflow? And what's on the roadmap for Sensu contributors?

StatusCast helps corporations keep their employees happy by providing unified IT status notifications, which gives them the ability to communicate IT status updates with their employees from a single location. Having to check both a corporate IT status page and a separate one for the organization’s cloud provider to determine the extent of IT issues, lowers employee productivity and job satisfaction.

StatusCast helps corporations keep their employees happy by providing unified IT status pages and notifications, which gives them the ability to communicate IT status updates with their employees from a single location.