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The Need for Security-Specific Applications

When we talk about cloud providers, we often forget that not all data is the same — even in the same application, while we might think of this data as from a “financial application” or a “computation process”, the reality is that each data set has subsets upon subsets, and thus require specific applications to manage them.

Is Slack the Right Choice for Your DevOps Team? Conquering the Biggest Challenges of Enterprise Collaboration

After closing a $20 million Series A round, Mattermost is skyrocketing in popularity as a secure, open source Slack alternative for enterprise DevOps and IT. High-trust teams are adopting it for messaging to overcome some of the biggest collaboration challenges today.

How to Detect Slow Database Queries Affecting Application Performance

The biggest challenge when a user complains of slow application is diagnosing why it’s slow: Is it due to a code-level issue or a database issue? Should we call the DBA or the application manager? Performance problems with the database can cause up to 70% of all application performance issues in production, according to consensus among database practitioners and experts.

timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 78

Grafana v6.0 Beta1 was released this week, and it’s packed with new features! This is one of the biggest updates to Grafana and introduces a new way to explore your data, support for log data, and includes tons of other enhancements. We hope you’ll give v6.0 Beta1 a try and let us know what you think. You can see a few of the highlights below, but check out all of the updates in the What’s new in Grafana v6 documentation.

How To Monitor Almost Anything: Lifehacking Diabetes

What can you monitor with LogicMonitor? There are only two limitations. As a Sales Engineer, I'm often asked questions like "Do you monitor (insert specific technology resource here)?". Equally often, I'm asked whether and how easily LogicMonitor's core abilities can be extended to gather metrics from any resources that may be specific to the customer.

How to shorten your feedback loops (and reduce your team's stress)

You’re working on a project — let’s say it’s a presentation to introduce a new initiative at your company. You have a first draft of the content done, and you send it to your boss for her feedback. She makes a few revisions and then says she’d like to share it with the leadership team to see what they think.

Mattermost security update 5.7.1/5.6.4/5.5.3/4.10.6 (ESR) released

We are releasing a recommended security update via Mattermost Team Edition 5.7.1, 5.6.4, 5.5.3 and 4.10.6 (ESR) and Mattermost Enterprise Edition 5.7.1, 5.6.4, 5.5.3 and 4.10.6 (ESR). This security update addresses a high-level vulnerability discovered during a security research review by Rohitesh Gupta.