This week we share articles covering Grafana’s alpha Explore UI, the many ways Logicify uses Grafana, building your own centralized monitoring stack, and more.

When there’s an incident, Grafana is often the starting point for figuring out a response. Users look at a time series panel and form a hypothesis. And in many situations, they’d like to dive deeper. To help make that easier, Grafana Labs has created the Explore UI, which allows you to iterate quickly through Prometheus queries, while leaving your dashboards intact.

One more article in Logicify Monitoring Tools series talks about Grafana, a software we use both for internal and external projects to visualize and analyze the data. The article could be of interest to CTOs, developers and DevOps, system administrators and Project Managers, and everyone interested.

Running your organization's infrastructure and understanding how services are performing a is key to ensuring every Dev and Ops team is running as efficiently as possible. The problem? Teams typically care about different metrics, so it can be hard to track the metrics you care about when they are not located on a central dashboard. Additionally, if these metrics are in central dashboard, it is often hard to dive deep and understand the root cause of your incidents and the performance of your team.

It’s official: Legacy IT infrastructure management (ITIM) tools have finally met their end. Several factors are combining to make existing on-premises ITIM tools nonviable in the presence of new cloud-based offerings. First and foremost, a slow but steady transition to generalists from specialists has left IT organizations with fewer experts required to manage a complex management tool.

Exoprise has long dedicated itself to excellence when it comes to synthetic (active) monitoring for cloud services like Office 365. But sometimes customers want to monitor an application that we might not support, a custom in-house application, or they want to get the perspective of an end-user that is on the road or telecommuting. That’s where our new Service Watch can come in handy.

Exoprise, the leader in Office 365 end-to-end monitoring, recently launched built-in reporting for Office 365. Now, the best cloud monitoring solutions includes usage, audit, activity, threat and health reporting too. No other vendor goes as deep or as wide for complete coverage of ALL of Your Office 365 operations.

For as long as we’ve had Skype Audio and Message monitoring sensors, customers have said “Where’s the Skype Conferencing Sensor?” or “Where’s the video, I want the video!”. We understand — customers always want more magic. Even when we looked for feedback of how they they might expect Skype monitoring for Conferences to work, no-one really knew. They left that part up to us.