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Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams: Solutions for Common Issues

Encountering problems with Microsoft Teams can disrupt your workflow, but don’t worry! This comprehensive guide for troubleshooting Microsoft Teams covers various common issues you might encounter while using Microsoft Teams. From connection hiccups to audio and video glitches, login errors, and notification mishaps, we’ve got you covered. in our e-book titled “Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams”: What Native Tools Can (and Can’t) Do.

Optimizing the Modern Workplace: Martello's Top 5 in 2023

As we look back on 2023, Martello’s focus was squarely on the success of our customers and shared achievements with our partners. Our journey is deeply rooted in a commitment to our customers and the meaningful partnerships that propel our innovations forward. Here’s a closer look at what has defined Martello’s 2023 and the spirit of collaboration with our customers and partners that continues to shape our path.

Sentry Bundle Size: How We Reduced Replay SDK by 35%

Bundle Size matters - this is something we SDK engineers at Sentry are acutely aware of. In an ideal world, you’d get all the functionality you want with no additional bundle size - oh, wouldn’t that be nice? Sadly, in reality any feature we add to the JavaScript SDK results in additional bundle size for the SDK - there is always a trade off to be made. With Session Replay, this is especially challenging.

Introducing Honeycomb's Microsoft Teams Integration for Enhanced Alert Management

Today marks an exciting milestone at Honeycomb, and we're thrilled to share it with you. We officially launched our integration with Microsoft Teams, a step forward in our continuous effort to streamline and enhance your observability experience. Teams now joins our growing list of over 100 Honeycomb integrations.

Track service provider outages with IsDown and Datadog

When your apps and infrastructure rely on dozens of third-party providers for key functionality, it’s important to closely track their outages. If a service you rely on goes down, you need to move quickly to limit the outage’s impact on your users. IsDown provides a detailed status page aggregator and uptime monitoring for all your third-party dependencies.

The Advent of Monitoring, Day 8: How to Monitor All the Nines of Your Service-Level Agreements

If you have large(r) customers, there is a point where they ask you for service-level agreements, or short SLAs. These are customer contracts defining different aspects of your service and what you guarantee for them. One common agreement is around availability, or, colloquially speaking, uptime. Your contract might state, and I am not a lawyer, that you guarantee that your service (or core parts of it) is available 99.99% of the time of a given period, mostly per month, quarter, or year.

A Head Nerds Guide to Building Custom Monitoring

I have spoken with many prospects and partners over the years and one of the more frequent questions I am asked is: “How do you build Custom Monitoring”. This is not an easy question to answer as there are so many variables at play, including: what type of device are you trying to monitor, what metrics are you looking for, what thresholds should trigger a warning or failure, etc.

Azure VM Rightsizing for Performance Excellence and Cost Control

Azure Virtual machines are one of the computing services offered by Azure. Azure VMs provide flexibility and agility, enabling organizations to swiftly deploy and scale applications without investing in and maintaining on-premises hardware. Azure VMs are fundamental in creating and managing the Azure cloud infrastructure. The concept of Azure VM rightsizing involves choosing the most suitable VM size for your workloads based on the resource requirements.