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Community update: Discourse, community efforts

Open source and community have always been in the DNA of Netdata, with the Agent starting as a very popular open-source project. Since then, a lot has changed, with Netdata maturing into a company, and the Netdata Agent finding its place as an open-source project in a wider offering that redesigns the monitoring experience from the ground up.

Ronald van Loon & Sendur Sellakumar | Splunk Cloud Is Rebuilt for the Data Age

Data analyst Ronald van Loon sits down with Splunk’s Sendur Sellakumar to discuss how companies can succeed in the data age. The conversation covers shifting to a cloud-native experience, honing in on a data-to-everything strategy, and customer-centric approach to data and product development. The majority of organizations are not prepared for an influx of data on the scale promised by the dawning data age. To thrive, every organization needs a complete view of its data — real-time insights with the ability to take real-time action.

Need for Speed: How SolarWinds Supports Its Partners in the Age of Digital Transformation

One of the biggest challenges organizations face in the current age of digital transformation is the issue of complexity. As the technology landscape continues to expand, organizations are increasingly moving away from centralized management to a more decentralized model. For many enterprises, monitoring, managing, and securing traditional and cloud-based infrastructures is becoming more difficult.

Monitor Applications Running in DigitalOcean Droplets

We’re happy to announce SolarWinds is partnering with DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider offering cloud services to help deploy modern apps, to offer application level monitoring to applications running in droplets with SolarWinds® application performance management (APM) solutions.

The Business Case for Observability with Context

My team was not happy with me. I had just convened a meeting of my direct reports — and the managers that reported to them — to deliver the news personally. “No more new tools,” I told them. “We have everything we need to do our job. Our environment just doesn’t change that fast. So stop bringing me requests for new tools. The answer is no.” It was unquestionably the right call at the time, but today, it would be laughable.

iSeatz - Resolving Performance Issues Faster with Catchpoint

iSeatz, founded in 1999, has evolved from a digital reservation platform for local New Orleans restaurants into a loyalty tech company that integrates travel and lifestyle bookings into point banks for global brands. iSeatz powers one of the top 10 travel platforms in the world, as well as loyalty eCommerce sites for multiple top 5 hotel brands. The iSeatz Oneview Platform handles more than $4 billion and 180 billion loyalty points annually.