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Monitor these loopholes to ensure complete network security

The continuous evolution and growth of the endpoint devices in enterprises makes network security management a primary concern for IT departments. As a sysadmin, you strive to ensure the safety and security of every device in your network. You are on a constant lookout for vulnerabilities and issues that might disturb the shield that protects your enterprise devices. With dynamically changing trends and technologies, it’s easy to miss details that might compromise your network’s armor.

10 reasons why SCOM 2019 needs SquaredUp

If you've used SCOM you know that it is a true monitoring powerhouse, but one that needs a helping hand surfacing data that matters and getting users engaged. The replacement of Silverlight with HTML5 in the SCOM 2019 web console is a welcome enhancement, but the SCOM web console still shares its design with the administration console, which users find slow, complex and hard to get the visibility they need. Enter SquaredUp.

Managing High Volume Log Streams

Modern systems and applications generate high volume log streams that become more and more expensive to store in order to query for troubleshooting and analytics purposes. In this video, Nils Bunge describes how to dynamically identify and store valuable logs from those streams while generating accurate long term analytics on 100% of the data.

Network Performance Monitoring

Your applications and infrastructure components rely on one another in an increasingly complex fabric, regardless of whether you run a monolithic application or microservices, and whether you deploy to cloud infrastructure, private data centers, or both. Virtualized infrastructure enables developers to respond to arbitrary scale—and creates dynamic network patterns that aren’t well matched to traditional network monitoring tools. To provide visibility into every component in your environment, and all the connections between them, Datadog is introducing Network Performance Monitoring for the cloud age. Miranda Kapin of Datadog tells you more.

APM For Serverless

Datadog announced a beta for native Datadog APM in serverless environments, starting with AWS Lambda. When running applications in a managed environment, it's especially important to be able to track down the sources of slowdowns and bottlenecks. Datadog APM for serverless means you'll always have your finger on the pulse of your application health, and your code doesn't need to change as your teams adopt serverless.

6 myths about chat etiquette that are slowing you down

Chat can be every bit as annoying as email if you and your colleagues aren’t using it right. It’s ironic, really. The whole point of group chat is to be a fast, fun way to communicate. But based on the conventional wisdom around chat etiquette, you’d think sending a quick ping was as delicate as inviting the Queen to high tea.