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EventSources, the sister LogicModule to DataSources, are a useful framework for triggering event-based, contextual alerts from your applications and infrastructure. While DataSources poll your applications and infrastructure for time-series datapoints, EventSources poll (or listen) for interesting events from your log files, SNMP traps, syslogs, Windows Event Logs, and much more.

As a child with a cancer survivor and heart disease patient for parents, I developed a psychological discomfort for visiting hospitals and the doctor’s office in my adult years. For me, the feeling of restlessness while sitting in a waiting room coupled with fear of the medically unknown can create the perfect breeding grounds for stress and anxiety—and apparently, I’m not alone.

As part of its pledged “fanatical” commitment to the success of its 125,000 customers across the globe, Rackspace optimizes its IT operations to the fullest. That way, this leading MSP ensures the highest quality and reliability of its vast portfolio of IT services across public and private clouds, and dedicated servers. “We support everything from gaming to e-commerce, telecommunications, medical, aviation — you name it.

Over the past few months, we’ve been steadily upgrading Instrumental’s alert management features! We’ve improved the overall user interface to make working with alerts faster and easier and added new features.