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.

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.

Here’s the next installment in our Mattermost Recipes series. The goal of these posts is to provide you with solutions to specific problems, as well as a discussion about the details of the solution and some tips about how to customize it to suit your needs perfectly.

At SURFsara we use CFEngine on our National Compute Cluster (LISA) and other systems as our configuration management tool. With the release of CFEngine 3.12 I want to highlight 2 new features, namely: missing_ok, multiple augments.