Previously your Uptrends monitors were either enabled or disabled; not anymore! For Professional, Business, and Enterprise accounts, you now have three options in your monitoring settings: Development, Staging, and Production mode. You can now choose between three monitor modes:

Dashboards provide critical visibility into the performance and health of your environment. But if your organization uses hundreds or thousands of dashboards, or if you’ve recently transitioned to a new company or different team, it’s not always easy to understand the full significance of the data shown on every single dashboard.

Local government department in full control through advanced VMware monitoring.

On Friday, July 19, Grafana Cloud experienced a ~30min outage in our Hosted Prometheus service. To our customers who were affected by the incident, I apologize. It’s our job to provide you with the monitoring tools you need, and when they are not available we make your life harder. We take this outage very seriously. This blog post explains what happened, how we responded to it, and what we’re doing to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

This blog post is for anyone needing a jumpstart into the world of Kusto. Perhaps you’ve heard about Kusto and are just curious. Maybe you’re just starting to use Azure Monitor for your application monitoring. You might even be getting skilled up in anticipation of the new Squared Up for Azure release that will have KQL at its heart. Whatever your reason, set aside the next 10 minutes and we'll get you up to speed with KQL. Ready? KQL stands for Kusto Query Language.

Oracle’s VirtualBox software is a key tool in software and website development, but can be complicated to configure. Vagrant simplifies the process and enables developers to repeatably build and scrap near-identical Virtual Machines (VM). This post will create a Ubuntu 18.04 Virtual Machine with a local directory mounted on it to make it easier to code on.