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Spiceworks Adds Free Network Inventory Application to its Suite of Integrated Cloud-based Solutions

AUSTIN, Texas — October 9, 2018 — Today at SpiceWorld 2018, Spiceworks announced a new cloud-based Spiceworks Inventory application that integrates with the cloud editions of Spiceworks Help Desk and Spiceworks Remote Support to help IT professionals more intuitively manage their technology assets and support end users from a single, easy-to-use ecosystem.

Postmortems and Retrospectives (class SRE implements DevOps)

Even after a service has been restored, SREs still have a bit of work to do. In this video, Liz and Seth discuss the postmortem process that SREs follow. Blameless postmortems and retrospectives are key to learning from failures and preventing recurrence. You will learn about the importance of conducting a postmortem, strategies for conducting a blameless postmortem, and techniques for trending retrospectives across your entire organization to gain better insights to prevent service disruptions in the future.

Three Secrets to Maintaining a Proactively Healthy VDI and Virtualization Environment

I’ve had the chance to work in the cloud, virtualization, and application delivery industry for quite some time. The most amazing thing I’ve seen has been the evolution around delivery technologies specifically aimed at improving user experience and performance. Still, with varying operating systems, evolving desktop environments, and the constant challenges around applications – there’s still one major challenge when it comes to these ecosystems.

Handling Multiline Stack Traces with Logstash

Here at Sematext we use Java and rely on Logsene, our hosted ELK logging SaaS, a lot. We like them so much that we regularly share our logging experience with everyone and help others with logging, especially, ELK stack. Centralized logging plays nice with Java (and anything else that can write pretty logs). However, there is one tricky thing that can be hard to get right: properly capturing exception stack traces.

How to add Solarwinds nodes to your Enterprise Applications

Today we welcome David Morris, a System Centre Engineer for one of the world's largest law firms, who has written a special guest blog about the Solarwinds community MP. A must read for anyone who has Solarwinds and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). We'd like to thank David for taking the time to write up this fantastic piece of content - it's another great example of the SCOM community hard at work.

Overrides, the Most Human Feature in PagerDuty

If you’ve ever been on call, you know that the incidents don’t stop because you have the flu. Or when you’re attending your child’s high school graduation. Or, as I found out firsthand, even when you’re at your own wedding. Confucius once said, “If you have never had a major occasion happen while you are on call, then you may not have ever lived.” (Okay, I totally made that one up.)