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New in Grafana 8.0: Streaming real-time events and data to dashboards

Grafana was made for large IT infrastructure projects, but a growing group of users rely on it for industrial/IoT projects, like monitoring physical equipment. And with good reason. According to Grafana Labs VP of Applications Ryan McKinley, “Software built by software engineers trying to know how their software is running is often nicer than industrial alternatives.” Some of the Grafana 8.0 updates were designed with industrial/IoT users in mind.

AWS Transit Gateways-Visualizing Cloud Routing with Kentik | Kentik Tech Talks, Episode 10

Kentik Cloud expert Dan Rohan talks AWS Transit Gateways in this brief Tech Talk video: How do you visualize cloud routing in AWS and why does it have to be so hard? Learn how to show traffic through an AWS Transit Gateway and trace the path that traffic is going to take, using Kentik Cloud. Dan shows how the Kentik Map feature lets you quickly look inside your AWS networking environment and easily see how your AWS Transit Gateways are connected and what they're talking to.

Full Stack Django Monitoring, Part 2

In the first part of this series, we deployed a Django application on a DigitalOcean Droplet and created a simple Django application. To monitor our Django application, we installed the SolarWinds® APM Integrated Experience featuring AppOptics™, Loggly®, and Pingdom®. In the conclusion of this article, we’ll explore the different types of monitoring provided by the APM Integrated Experience.

DX NetOps 21.2 Innovates with Scale, Speed, and Simplicity

DX NetOps 21.2 network monitoring software continues to innovate and improve the scale, speed, and simplicity of network operations with a focused set of high-value features and capabilities. Exciting new enhancements include increased monitoring scale, telemetry support, expanded SDN and cloud technology coverage, and usability and security updates. SCALE. Networks today handle a lot of data. That's why we are proud to support the largest deployments of networking technologies around the world.

What Top Brands Are Saying About Splunk Observability Cloud

Customers have had a lot to say about the new Splunk Observability Cloud since we announced general availability on May 5, 2021. For the first time ever, IT and DevOps teams can get all their data in one place with unified metrics, traces and logs — collected in real time, without sampling and at any scale. What makes Splunk Observability Cloud unique from other solutions? We’ll let our customers do the talking.

Why Do Employee-First IT Pros Make More Money?

Competition for good employees is fierce. Nearly all business leaders (95% according to a 2021 Robert Half study) say it’s challenging to find skilled professionals. So companies must invest in workplace experiences that can attract and retain talent. Competition for sales and market share is also tough, and that means companies must rely on top-tier talent to thrive in the digital era.

Nutritional Labels for Hardware? Believe it.

The turbulence of 2020 and increased remote working has meant that many businesses across the globe have been forced to make sudden and significant investments in hardware devices to support the working needs of their staff. Hardware companies like Apple, HP and Dell have been seeing a surge in personal computing/device sales to the point of shortages in the market.

3 Steps For A More Strategic Approach to Incident Reduction

When an IT incident negatively impacts employee experience, IT teams rush to remedy the issue – understandably, as a widespread incident can have major effects on employees’ productivity, security, and overall experience. Yet, so many IT teams find themselves drowning in support tickets even as they continue to resolve top call drivers (the incidents that affect the most employees and drive the most support requests).