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Sometimes you need tools to manage your tools. If Zapier is your tool of choice, you can now add your Uptrends alerting as one of those tools ready for automation with Zapier.

Health and performance issues are easier to understand—and to troubleshoot—when you can use tags to aggregate your data across many overlapping scopes. But while some scopes come directly from your infrastructure, others are constantly evolving to reflect the needs of your product or organization. You can only track your data effectively if you can define—and redefine—your scopes on the fly.

One highly requested feature of AWS’s Application Load Balancer is the ability to assign static IP addresses. Unfortunately, ALBs do not support this feature and it is unlikely they will in the near future. Today, the only way to achieve static IP addresses for your application behind an ALB is to add another layer in between the client and your ALB which does have a static IP address, and then forward requests to your ALB.

Cloud Docs feature in Serverless360 helps you to document your Microsoft Azure Subscription. It comes with the capability to aggregate data from disparate Resource Providers in Microsoft Azure in a single report. This allows for the creation of composite technical documentation across resources enabling richer insights that would otherwise be impossible. Interpreting your cost and resource information on Microsoft Azure subscription into legible documentation is what Cloud Docs are for.

If you’ve ever used Ruby on Rails, you’ve probably come across the concept of concerns. Whenever you jumpstart a new Rails project, you get a directory app/controllers/concerns and app/models/concerns. But what are concerns? And why do people from the Rails community sometimes talk badly about them?

For many organizations, knowledge management is often considered a technology problem. This is why when they implement knowledge management, the execution is often rendered unsuccessful because the processes and the kind of articles that are created are too complicated for people to use. ITIL knowledge management is defined as the process of capturing, processing, storing, and sharing knowledge across the enterprise.

We are pleased to announce another integration with one of our strategic partners, ServiceNow. Available today with the launch of ServiceNow’s Paris release, LogicMonitor supports the Service Graph Connector! LogicMonitor was selected by ServiceNow as a key player and one of the first monitoring platforms invited to this new, exclusive program.

Discover how Kube-apparmor-manager can help you manage AppArmor profiles on Kubernetes to reduce the attack surface of your cluster. AppArmor is a Linux kernel security module that supplements the standard Linux user and group-based permissions to confine programs to a limited set of resources. AppArmor can be configured for any application to reduce its potential attack surface and provide greater in-depth defense.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been named to the Forbes 2020 Cloud 100 Rising Stars. This is a list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. The 20 Rising Stars represent young, high-growth and category-leading cloud companies who are poised to join the Cloud 100 ranks.

The v1.25.0 release of the Netdata Agent delivers on our commitment to make our metrics collection, visualization, and troubleshooting platform more stable and usable. We enhanced our recently-added Prometheus collector with user-configurable filtering and grouping, made dramatic improvements to the reliability of the Agent-Cloud link that streams metrics on-demand to your browser when you use Netdata Cloud, and more. Let’s jump in and look at each improvement.