When we talk about cloud providers, we often forget that not all data is the same — even in the same application, while we might think of this data as from a “financial application” or a “computation process”, the reality is that each data set has subsets upon subsets, and thus require specific applications to manage them.

If your Healthchecks account is growing and is getting a little hard to manage, Healthchecks.io has a new feature for you: Projects. Use Projects to organize your monitoring dashboards, to have finer-grained team and API access controls, and to simplify your check-integration mapping.

After closing a $20 million Series A round, Mattermost is skyrocketing in popularity as a secure, open source Slack alternative for enterprise DevOps and IT. High-trust teams are adopting it for messaging to overcome some of the biggest collaboration challenges today.

Grafana v6.0 Beta1 was released this week, and it’s packed with new features! This is one of the biggest updates to Grafana and introduces a new way to explore your data, support for log data, and includes tons of other enhancements. We hope you’ll give v6.0 Beta1 a try and let us know what you think. You can see a few of the highlights below, but check out all of the updates in the What’s new in Grafana v6 documentation.

What can you monitor with LogicMonitor? There are only two limitations. As a Sales Engineer, I'm often asked questions like "Do you monitor (insert specific technology resource here)?". Equally often, I'm asked whether and how easily LogicMonitor's core abilities can be extended to gather metrics from any resources that may be specific to the customer.

You’re working on a project — let’s say it’s a presentation to introduce a new initiative at your company. You have a first draft of the content done, and you send it to your boss for her feedback. She makes a few revisions and then says she’d like to share it with the leadership team to see what they think.