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Well, you’ve done it. You decided to take the plunge with InfluxDB. While vast and diverse possibilities await, you may have more short-term concerns. Namely: now what? Getting started looks different for everyone because no two users are doing the exact same thing. This post is primarily aimed at InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated and InfluxDB Clustered users (or any other products that include support agreements. You can chat with one of our sales folks if you have questions about that).

The internet, like a vast kingdom, relies on a complex infrastructure to function smoothly. But just like a kingdom needs strong security measures, the DNS needs robust protection to safeguard the entire online ecosystem..

Observability systems are designed to keep tabs on key metrics, identify unusual patterns, and alert teams when things go awry. Despite best efforts, however, these systems are not infallible, and sometimes they send out alerts for issues that don’t exist. This is what we call a false positive. These false alarms can wreak havoc on team efficiency, lead to alert fatigue, and obscure genuine problems. Let’s delve into what false positives are and why they matter so much.

Keeping costs under control is crucial to managing projects on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Yet, even the most experienced teams can face unexpected increases in their cloud bills. These surprises, known as cost anomalies, can disrupt budgets and plans. But, with the right approach and tools, you can spot these issues early and keep your cloud spending on track.

This guide offers a deep dive into server uptime monitoring, focusing on the strategies and tools essential for seasoned IT professionals to implement. We’ll explore advanced metrics, fine-tune the deployment of tools like Heartbeat, and dissect integration practices with the ELK stack. Designed for technical leaders who manage complex infrastructures, this guide aims to enhance your methodologies in maintaining high availability and optimizing operational performance across your server ecosystems.

Today’s evolving technology makes it imperative for you to refresh or update organization’s hardware and software. This will decrease downtime, prevent crashes while increasing employee productivity. Nexthink combines employee usage, sentiment and performance data to help you make informed hardware refresh decisions that fit the needs of your employees and the business overall. Let's see how Nexthink performs a usage based intelligent hardware refresh.

In today’s business environment, much of the success of any MSP relies heavily on their online presence and reputation. This is because the vast majority of business consumers use the internet as their first port of call to discover, research, and select service providers. In this blog, I’m going to look at the pivotal role Google Business Listings can play in this process and how getting reviews for your MSP businesses can help to foster growth and enhance credibility.

A few years ago, lift and shift to the cloud was all the rage––with the companies building those solutions being snatched up at exorbitant selling prices to the biggest cloud vendors. Nearly a decade, and multiple failed lift and shift migration stories later, we have now learned the hard way that slow and steady wins the race.

At GrafanaCON 2024, Grafana founder Torkel Ödegaard introduced Grafana 11, which has a feature set that aligns with the same goals we’ve had since the OSS project launched in 2013. “The core mission of Grafana that we’ve had from the start is to make observability easy and powerful through good UX design, a focus on ease of use, and user flexibility and freedom,” Torkel said.

One of the superpowers of Grafana is the ability to bring all of your data into a single platform thanks to our rich catalog of data sources. Oftentimes you will want to visualize information from disparate data sources together in a single dashboard or panel. Or you might want to refine data returned from queries without altering the original data source. Or you may need to modify data due to limitations of a query language that stops you from getting the required formatting.