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Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer and VirtualMetric - more power for your engineers and infrastructure

If you are running a Hyper-V and managing a Hyper-V infrastructure, you should be already familiar with the Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer. Microsoft Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer is a built-in Windows feature which scans your server configurations for the specific server roles. After the scan is completed, the BPA generate reports that identify the existing best practice violations.

The AWS spend of a SaaS small business

In the first 30 days after moving Cronitor to AWS in January, 2015 we collected $535 in MRR and paid $64.47 for hosting, data transfer and a domain name. In the time since we’ve continued to increase our footprint, level-up instances and add more managed services. Despite the AWS reputation as an expensive foot-gun we’ve improved availability while keeping our bill consistently close to 12.5% of revenue. Here’s a look.

timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 48

We were in Portland this week attending Monitorama - one of our favorite annual conferences. We got the chance to catch up with old friends, make some new ones, and be part of an amazing community of passionate data and monitoring aficionados. Looking forward to Monitorama AMS in September! Also this week we released Grafana v5.2.0-beta1 and… Elasticsearch alerting has arrived! Download it today and let us know what you think. Check out the specifics on the beta release below.

Five worthy reads: Does your security operations center really make you immune to cyberattacks?

Many enterprises are at the brink of digital transformation, which entails adopting new technologies that process a sea of both personal and enterprise-level data. Despite a surging number of innovations to prevent evolving cyber threats from hijacking that data, the sheer number of successful, high-profile data breaches and attacks recently highlight the insufficient security practices of organizations around the globe.

ServiceNow Software Asset Management (SAM)

ServiceNow makes work, work better for people. Our cloud-based platform and products deliver digital experiences that help people do their best work. ServiceNow SAM works seamlessly with other products on the NOW Platform for features such as License Change Projections and Application Portfolio Management. Imagine what’s possible when you run SAM from the same place that you manage the rest of your IT.

The AppD Approach: Monitoring Kubernetes Events

Just recently we launched AppDynamics for Kubernetes, giving enterprises end-to-end, unified visibility into their entire Kubernetes stack and Kubernetes-orchestrated applications for both on-prem and public cloud environments. Our industry-leading APM provides visibility into Kubernetes by leveraging labels such as Namespace, Pod or ReplicaSet. And AppDynamics customers can organize, group, query or filter Kubernetes objects or performance metrics based on labels.

Community Plan Improvements & SMS Cost Reduction

StatusCake has always valued it’s community user base; It’s always been our view that if we can support companies at their earliest stages then down the line when they need more advanced monitoring then they know and understand our feature rich product; While other website monitoring platforms are doing more and more to restrict what their free users get, we’ve been looking at what more we can provide and with that in mind have made some improvements to the community plan.

PagerDuty Launches Event Intelligence to Extend Its Market-Leading Digital Operations Management Platform

SAN FRANCISCO – June 7, 2018 – PagerDuty today announced PagerDuty Event Intelligence, a new product that builds on its market-leading digital operations management platform. Event Intelligence analyzes both incoming digital signals and human response patterns (such as when and how alerts are resolved by responders) and uses automation to identify issues quickly, enabling teams to take action on critical software issues and opportunities.