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Grafana Tutorial: Automating Common Grafana Actions

Grafana is probably the most popular visualization software and a Hosted Grafana is provided by MetricFire. Every day, our users have to perform certain actions and most of them are repetitive. For example, you might want to automatically create a bunch of different folders with dashboards in them. This tutorial will show you how to do that with Terraform, which is very popular in the DevOps circles, and how to go even further by using the client library yourself to automate more.

Free NetLogon Secure Channel Compliance MP

The Netlogon Remote Protocol (also called MS-NRPC) is an RPC interface that is used exclusively by domain-joined devices. MS-NRPC includes authentication procedures and a method of establishing a Netlogon secure channel. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in MS-NRPC that makes it possible for an attacker to establish a vulnerable Netlogon secure channel connection to a domain controller.

Why is it important to reduce the size of my SCOM Data Warehouse?

A company’s data warehouse is usually the largest database a company uses when dealing with SCOM data, this means it is often the most expensive to manage and maintain. They can also be a drain on your infrastructure, taking a long time to backup, slowing down reporting, consuming more hardware space and can be very time consuming to recover, if they go down.

Power your digitalization with End-User Experience Monitoring

In the digital world, user-centricity is the one thing all successful modern applications have in common. But no matter how great the application is, users’ experience - whether customers or employees - is instantly ruined if performance degrades. This webinar will explain the differences between four major approaches to application and user experience monitoring and show how to get true end-to-end coverage by combining them.

Breaking Down the DevOps Pulse 2020: Going Cloud-Native

Our annual DevOps Pulse identifies and tracks points of interest and emerging trends throughout the tech industry. The 2020 DevOps Pulse was our biggest ever with over 1,000 respondents. This year, we put an emphasis on cloud-native technology adoption and adaptation to architecture, applications, and observability technologies. However, we would be remiss not to trail and track how DevOps pros and their teammates are dealing with the other major events of the year.

How to Manage Ruby Memory Usage

Even the most prominent and reliable frameworks are notorious for burning out resources if not configured perfectly. In this post, we are about to take a look at how Ruby, one of the most prominent programming languages and an awesome web application alternative when combined with Rails, manages memory, and how you can make it perform even better. Ruby is a scripting language built for use in web applications and similar stuff.

Location Matters when Monitoring Digital Experience

There’s a saying in real estate that the three most important things for a property are: “location, location, location.” At Catchpoint, we believe the same is true for digital experience monitoring. Location matters. That’s why we’ve built the largest, most diverse global network of monitoring points available, with more than 800 monitoring nodes in over 230 cities and 280 providers around the world.

Tech Leaders' Panel - Prioritizing Customer Experience in Today's Digital World

In today’s digital world, leading companies are having to redefine what it means to deliver a flawless experience for their customers. In this exclusive panel discussion, learn how software teams at Vend, Xero, Tend Health and Lancom put the customer experience at the center of their development workflow, closing the feedback loop between code and customer. Proudly brought to you by Raygun + AWS Raygun is a software monitoring platform that gives you visibility into how users are really experiencing your software.

Video: Top three features of the new Loki 2.0

Hi folks, Ward Bekker here from the Solutions Engineering team. I’ve just published a video on the new Loki 2.0 release that I’m excited to share with you. The Loki team announced the brand-new Grafana Loki 2.0 release at last week’s ObservabilityCON conference. It’s an exciting, feature-packed release. Loki’s slogan — like Prometheus, but for logs — is more true than ever before.

VoIP during remote work, and meeting its QoS challenges

Though remote work has been in practice for a decent number of years, the pandemic has made businesses take up the challenge of shifting to a completely remote workforce. All this wouldn't have been possible without high-speed internet access for all employees. Another tool that has made the transition smooth and ensured uninterrupted communication is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).