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How to Collect and Visualize Windows Events From 5 Hosts in 5 Minutes

If you’re investigating incidents on your Windows hosts, sifting through the Event Viewer can be a painful experience. It’s best to collect and ship Windows Events to a separate backend for easier visualization and analysis – but depending on the solution you choose, this can take some significant legwork. Often, this can require manually configuring a 3rd party tool or agent, just to get started.

The SolarWinds 5 Essential IT Tools Pack Overview

Discover the 5 must-have IT management tools for your business. The SolarWinds® 5 Essential IT Tools Pack contains basic management and monitoring software to get even the smallest IT operation up and running. The pack includes: Web Help Desk®, Dameware® Remote Support, Serv-U® FTP Server, ipMonitor®, and Engineer’s Toolset™.

10x development speed with local serverless debugging

Serverless is great but a lot of it is in the cloud and in all these different services. Oftentimes we hear serverless developers struggle with debugging serverless locally in order to iterate fast. Without an effective debugging setup, they are left frustrated with slowed development cycle time and decreased operational efficiency. In this 45-minute hands-on webinar, we'll be discussing how to debug serverless locally to really speed up your development cycle.

Multi-Cloud Management: What Do You Need to Know For 2021?

This year, our team at Catchpoint put together the IT Monitoring Trends 2021 Report. We focus on seven key trends that will shape year two of our new, unstable normal. The goal: to help you as either a “boots on the ground” engineer or a C-level exec to know what to expect of the year ahead. We also share actionable best practices for how to shape your IT monitoring strategy. Multi-cloud and hybrid-IT management is one of the seven trends.

It's all about the tools, is it?

User Interface design or product design in general is less about tools than it is to have a proper understanding about the product you work on. And besides understanding, how the user is going to use your product, recognizing patterns and underlying relationships between key elements is crucial. Besides that, there are some tools, that really enable me to iterate quickly on ideas and concepts and then communicate these to the team.

Elastic named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring

We’re excited to announce that Elastic has been named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring. We are thrilled with the Visionary placement and believe that it validates our differentiated approach to delivering a modern application performance monitoring solution, powered by the Elastic Stack. Download the complimentary report to see how Gartner evaluates the market, and why they recognized Elastic as a Visionary in our first time participating.

Achieve Excellence in Continuous Testing by Knowing Your Product - Part 2

This is part two of a two-part series. If you have not done so, read Part 1. Achieving excellence in continuous testing is not just about mastering all the new tools, programming languages, and frameworks. It involves developing a deep understanding of the product you are testing. What follows are some additional tips that can help.

Lift-and-Shift Cloud Migrations: The Good, the Bad, and How To Avoid the Ugly

There are many paths to the cloud, and the one you choose depends on your particular digital transformation requirements and resources. About a decade ago, Gartner cleverly developed an alliterative nomenclature to describe five different migration strategies: the five Rs. That list has evolved over time and there a lot of 5-, 6-, and 7-strategy variations out there.

InfluxData releases InfluxDB Notebooks to enhance collaboration for teams working with time series data

SAN FRANCISCO — April 14, 2021 — InfluxData, creator of the leading time series database InfluxDB, today announced the general availability of InfluxDB Notebooks, a new capability that improves communication for software development teams, ultimately enhancing productivity within InfluxDB Cloud. InfluxDB Notebooks is the first of the company’s new capabilities designed to make it easier for developers to collaborate around time series data within the platform.