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Now you can add Amazon Timestream to your Grafana observability dashboard

Today, AWS launched Amazon Timestream, a fast, scalable, serverless time series database purpose-built for IoT use cases. If you’re looking into trying out Timestream, know that you can visualize the native Timestream queries with Grafana out of the box. Here are some examples of the robust, SQL-style Timestream queries visualized in Grafana.

Microsoft Login Failures Affecting Office 365 and Azure

On Monday, September 28th 2020, Microsoft had a failure with their authentication system that affected major products and services such as Office 365, Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint, Azure and many others. The Microsoft login failure affected consumer and business users that were not already authenticated with the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) service. Microsoft confirmed the outage on their Azure Status Dashboard website.

The Catchpoint Open Source Software (OSS) Program

Catchpoint has always embraced new technologies and ideas. We offer a powerful monitoring platform with advanced features such as tracking digital performance from across the globe, capturing analytical data and the ability to get notified across various channels. With all these inbuilt features in hand, Catchpoint encourages its customers to build new monitors and integration that consumes monitoring data that are tailored to specific use cases.

The importance of Cloud monitoring: AWS

In previous articles we talked about the need to move forward to cloud technology, as well as about the incorporation of the monitoring of this technology, describing this need with Microsoft Azure tool. Now we are going to describe the Amazon AWS tool, its differences regarding Microsoft Azure and we will delve into monitoring AWS with Pandora FMS.

InfluxDB 2.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Today we announce InfluxDB 2.0 Open Source’s first official release candidate (RC). This represents a final version of the software as we move towards general availability. We appreciate all the feedback from our users over the last few years and realize that getting to this stage has taken longer than any of us predicted.