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Ronald McCollam | Flux Queries in Grafana 7 | InfluxDays

In this session, Ronald shows a few new features of Grafana 7, focusing on the new native Flux query support in Grafana. He shows you how you can query with both Flux and the older InfluxQL support, using both side by side to ease migration. As a bonus, you see how to combine Flux queries with other data to perform advanced analytics and joins to truly understand your entire environment!

Troubleshooting Microsoft 365 End to End: Turning Interruption into Insight

How should you approach monitoring and troubleshooting Microsoft 365 so that you are the first to know of problems and have the tools at hand for quick remediation? Watch Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter MVP, Nick Cavalancia, and Martello VP of Product Development, Rob Doucette as they discuss how to troubleshoot SaaS applications like Microsoft 365 with end-to-end monitoring.

Expand your Sleuth monitoring reach with Datadog

One of our most commonly requested integrations, Datadog cloud monitoring, was announced last week on the Datadog blog! Sleuth organizes your deployments into projects, which collect and organize key data from your code sources and their associated staging environments. This data consists of metrics and errors.

Synthetic User Click Recorder (using Selenium & germainAPM)

Using germainAPM and Selenium, it is now - super easy- to record a Synthetic User Scenario/Click(s), run it 24x7 at a set frequency, be alerted whenever it fails ( indicating an issue on your webapp e.g. broken link, checkout issue, page not coming up, etc), automate execution of script (to self-resolve issues, etc). All this for proactive issue detection and resolution. In addition to this feature, germainAPM offers many other features (real user session recording and replay, automatic functional and technology issue detection, end-2-end analysis, resolution of issues, etc).

Essentials of Microsoft Teams VoIP Monitoring

Microsoft Office 365 has an upper hand over other tools. The Office 365 ecosystem enables users to easily collaborate while working remotely. Users have a range of solutions to choose from and Office 365 offers an additional advantage – easy integration between these tools. Microsoft Office 365 has over 200 million monthly active users.

Upcoming PostgreSQL Support for Icinga Certificate Monitoring

Our goal is to support both MySQL and PostgreSQL as a backend wherever we need a database. Our latest addition in this area was PostgreSQL support for reporting, which will be released in the next few weeks. We don’t have PostgreSQL support for Icinga Certificate Monitoring yet. But it has already been worked on and the pull request for it is waiting to be tried. We would be happy to receive feedback in this regard so that we can fully merge PostgreSQL support as soon as possible.

Changes to our release system!

Life is always about improving, right? As we have been doing for so many years, we pay attention to your suggestions. And that has led us to make some decisions in order to improve our release strategy. After carefully studying your comments, we have decided to offer two different types of releases. On the one hand, solid long-term releases. On the other, we will keep on going with our regular periodic releases where we offer constant short-term improvements.

Announcing Honeycomb's extension for the AWS Lambda Runtime Logs API

Today, AWS announced the AWS Lambda Runtime Logs API, a new way to easily send logs from AWS Lambda functions directly to your destination of choice. AWS Lambda Extensions, announced in October, provide the ability to run code in parallel that is independent of your function’s lifecycle. We’ve created an extension that utilizes the Lambda Runtime Logs API to send your logs directly to Honeycomb.

A 5 Minute Guide for Experimenting with Ambassador and Jaeger in a Kubernetes Sandbox

Implementing distributed tracing is fast becoming a fundamental expectation when building modern (distributed) systems. However, this is yet another thing for developers to learn, and configuring distributed tracing on Kubernetes is hard, right? Actually, no. Getting started with Jaeger on Kubernetes has never been easier.