If you’re developing a management pack with custom UI and/or .NET modules you’ve gone through the steps of getting your DLL recognized by the engine and loaded as an Assembly or DeployedAssembly depending on the project (here’s an SCSM example). Durning an ongoing project constantly updating the resource mpx file to have the correct QualifiedName can be frustrating, time-consuming, and error-prone.

If you are reading this article, you’re probably familiar with syslog, a logging tool that has been around since the 1980s. It is a daemon present in most Linux-based operating systems. By default, syslog (and variants like rsyslog) on Linux systems can be used to forward logs to central syslog servers or monitoring platforms where further analysis can be conducted. That’s useful, but to make the very most of syslog, you also want to be able to analyze log data.

Website performance is how quickly the site can be displayed on the user’s Internet browser once a request is made. Keeping an eye on certain indicating factors can let you know if your website is doing well. It can also help during the development process when you are trying to optimize your website.

Microsoft Windows Azure Active Directory (Azure AD or AAD) is a cloud service that provides administrators with the ability to manage end-user identities and access privileges. When you use Office 365, Microsoft Azure, or Intune you are indirectly interacting with AAD which they use to manage all of their identities, authentication and permissions.

Launched at KubeCon North America last December, Loki is a Prometheus-inspired service that optimizes storage, search, and aggregation while making logs easy to explore natively in Grafana. Loki is designed to work easily both as microservices and as monoliths, and correlates logs and metrics to save users money. Less than a year later, Loki has almost 6,500 stars on GitHub and is now quickly approaching GA.