The adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems has seen tremendous growth across geographies, especially in the US. According to American Hospital Association data shared by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, over 93% of American hospitals are enabled by some form of EHR in their organization. Implementing an EHR system in your clinic or hospital is a big decision.

In the world of DevOps, every second counts. Problems need to be fixed fast, but with the intention that it’s done with a legitimate purpose for when something’s wrong. Continuous monitoring helps with automation and setting up the right kinds of alerts. If the system is going haywire, every moment not acting can make things worse. That’s why intelligent alerting is critical for enabling observability and continuous effective monitoring.

We are happy to announce that file provisioning for Grafana Alerting has arrived in Grafana 9.1. This feature enables you to configure your whole alerting stack using files on disk, as you may already do with data sources or dashboards. The Terraform Grafana provider has also been updated to allow the provisioning of Grafana Alerting resources.

When evaluating a monitoring product, it is essential you fully understand its alerting capabilities. Alerting is a responsive action triggered by a change in conditions within the system being monitored. Typically, an alert can be defined by a condition to trigger the alert and an action defining what that alert should do when the trigger condition occurs.

You’ve spoken and we’ve listened and as a result, the highly anticipated Slack integration for Raygun Alerting is here! Once integrated with Slack, you’ll receive customized error, crash, and performance alert notifications directly to the channel of your choosing. Reduce your Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) and resolve issues in your code before your customers even notice.

The way organizations process logs have changed over the past decade. From random files, scattered amongst a handful of virtual machines, to JSON documents effortlessly streamed into platforms. Metrics, too, have seen great strides, as providers expose detailed measurements of every aspect of their system. Traces, too, have become increasingly sophisticated and can now highlight even the most precise details about interactions between our services. But alerts have remained stationary.

Our August update now allows administrators and team administrators to change the service status of other users in the portal. We also made service settings more granular and e.g. introduced the ability to turn off certain push messages when colleagues’ service statuses change. We have also revised the way of changing personal password or remote action PIN in the portal. All details are available in this article.