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How COVID-19 Made IT Experience a Board Level Concern

For the digital workplace team at ABN AMRO, it wasn’t just the COVID-19 crisis itself that was unexpected. If you’d have told us in January 2020 that – within a few months – our tooling and capability would be the subject of direct and regular attention by the board at our company, we would have had trouble believing that, too. ABN AMRO has long had quite a special focus on employee experience in general.

Announcing the LogDNA Terraform Provider Beta

We’re excited to announce the public beta of the LogDNA Terraform Provider, allowing organizations to manage Views and Alerts programmatically via Terraform. Today, more teams than ever are adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to reduce human error and create efficiently scaled workflows for their infrastructure. Additionally, teams are looking to bring the same benefits of scalability and predictability into their SaaS-based observability stack.

Modernization Starts With Infrastructure

Today, every company is a software company and digital business is a core strategy for many organizations. To gain the much-needed agility and efficient scalability, companies in all verticals are modernizing their infrastructure by moving to hybrid, multicloud and cloud-native environments. Realizing that modern applications run on modern infrastructure, IT leaders are prioritizing infrastructure modernization initiatives.

ObservabilityCON Day 2 recap: The latest Grafana Cloud tools for Prometheus to improve alerting, debugging, and scaling. Plus why continuous monitoring matters now

ObservabilityCON 2020 is live! This week Grafana Labs is bringing together the Grafana community for talks dedicated to observability. We hope you’re able to catch the great sessions we have planned. You can find the full schedule on the event page, and for additional information on viewing, participating in Q&As, and more, check out our quick guide to getting the most out of ObservabilityCON. Day 2 was dedicated to all things Prometheus — featuring new solutions and in-depth case studies.

Netdata's dashboard: open by default and secure by design

Let’s talk through a scenario: You have a Linux-based VM running on DigitalOcean (aka a Droplet), and you install Netdata on it using our recommended kickstart script. As the installation process winds down, the Droplet starts up the Netdata Agent’s web server and serves the local Agent web dashboard on port 19999.

Modern Monitoring

"Observability" - don't roll your eyes just yet. As application architectures change, and the relationship between applications and the infrastructure they run on is blurred, tech-enabled enterprises have to consider new practices for supporting them. Observability gives us an opportunity to embrace the new set of challenges and offer better approaches and strategies. In this episode, we talk about how the complexity of modern apps impacts the changes needed on the management plane.