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On June 5th, Microsoft experienced an outage for many of their Microsoft 365 services including: Outlook on the web, Teams, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online due to a service update. When Microsoft service availability goes down the scramble is on for IT teams to quickly pinpoint the issue to mitigate productivity roadblocks for their users and this outage was no different.

InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated is a hosted and managed InfluxDB Cloud cluster dedicated to a single tenant. The InfluxDB time series platform is designed to handle high write and query loads so you can use and leverage InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated for your specific time series use case. In this tutorial, we walk through the process of reading data from InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated using the Java Flight SQL client.

This article explores the efficient monitoring of Heroku Apps using MetricFire's HostedGraphite plugin and Grafana dashboards. By combining these tools, developers can gain valuable insights into their app's performance and resource utilization. This guide provides step-by-step instructions on setting up MetricFire, integrating StatsD, and creating comprehensive Grafana dashboards for effective monitoring and debugging.

Do you know what version of your software is running in production? How often is that software deployed, and was it deployed right before last week’s p0 incident? What sort of dependencies are being deployed along with that software, and are any of them potential security risks? These are all common observability questions that may be difficult to answer.

As a stylesheet language, CSS has limited capabilities when it comes to writing logic, organizing code, and performing other computational tasks. CSS preprocessors provide a solution to this problem. While CSS has improved a lot in recent years with the introduction of custom and logical properties, math and color functions, new pseudo-classes, and other enhancements, there are still many good reasons to use CSS preprocessors.

I am thrilled that CloudFabrix is a pioneering design partner for Cisco’s Full-Stack Observability Platform (FSO). The Cisco FSO Platform has been designed with a vision of providing a unified observability experience across all application and infrastructure aspects, thereby dismantling silos. The platform’s choice to adopt OpenTelemetry as the protocol for data ingestion via MELT opens up the possibility for comprehensive insights on the complete stack.

It’s my pleasure to announce that the newest version of Avantra, 23.2, is now available for download through our customer hub. In this release we’ve focussed on bringing performance enhancements and usability improvements as well as enhancing our platform extensibility experience and bringing new automation templates to remove some of the mundane tasks that we know SAP operations teams get stuck doing rather than spending time on the more important stuff.