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GrafanaCon Recap: Running a Power Plant with Grafana

A water and energy innovation company founded in 2005, Natel Energy builds hydropower turbines and designs resilient and distributed hydropower systems. In his talk at GrafanaCon EU, Natel Developer Ryan McKinley gave us a fascinating look at how the company is using Grafana to help run these next-generation power plants.

Mattermost 5.0: Intercept and modify posts, advanced permissions, longer posts and more

Mattermost 5.0 has new features designed to improve productivity while enhancing security: Intercept and modify posts – customize Mattermost by creating plugins to automatically restrict, modify, censor and link posts, Advanced permissions – ensure everyone has the proper level of access with new system and team permissions schemes

Mattermost Recipe: How to create a chatbot with Dialogflow and Google Cloud Functions

(Editor’s note: This guest Mattermost Recipe was contributed by Brian Hopkins, a member of the Mattermost community.) Here’s the next installment of a new series of posts we’re doing on the Mattermost blog: Mattermost Recipes. 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.

5 Things You Need in a Digital Operations Management Platform

It’s pretty well known that we live in a connected, always-on world where seconds matter when it comes to customer happiness. There are smaller incident management solution providers that offer what looks to be competitive pricing—but it’s important to consider the bigger picture outside basic alerting and incident response.

How to connect Stackdriver to external monitoring

Google Stackdriver lets you track your cloud-powered applications with monitoring, logging and diagnostics. Using Stackdriver to monitor Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) projects has many advantages—you get detailed performance data and can set up tailored alerts. However, we know from our customers that many businesses are bridging cloud and on-premises environments.

Four nines and beyond: A guide to high availability infrastructure

We’ve talked about the increasingly-interconnected nature of cloud tools and the domino-goes-crashing-down effect thatcan happen when just one critical service has downtime. Web uptime is more important than ever, and it’s critical that these services we all rely on are up and running as often as possible.