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In the first quarter of 2020, enterprises spent $29 billion on public cloud infrastructure, an increase of 37% over the previous year. While the global economy was battered by the coronavirus pandemic, organizations still rushed to accelerate digital transformation and ensure business continuity with hyperscale infrastructure.

We released a new Modbus input plugin in Telegraf 1.14 and in this blog I’d like to tell you more about that plugin and how you can use it. Modbus is a messaging protocol for industrial devices that was developed by Modicon (now Schneider Electric) for main-secondary communication between these intelligent devices. It has become an ideal protocol for remote terminal units (RTUs) where wireless communication is necessary.

Over the past few years, we’ve witnessed a couple of key trends in the performance monitoring space. Adoption of single-page applications (SPAs) has continued to grow and as such performance monitoring is evolving. SPAs don’t offer the same existing web metrics like load time or first paint from the browser performance API. As a result, developers require more flexibility to track the metrics that matter to their end-users and business.

If you’ve been following along, the last two articles explained the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) processes. In this article, we look at how Uptrends fits into those processes. Uptrends can fit into your CI/CD process in several different ways. For example, you may want to use Uptrends for the testing and monitoring portions, include your monitor updates as part of your automation processes, or both.

The new NiCE Active 365 Management Pack 3.10 comes with tons of nice new features for advanced Office 365 monitoring. In addition, NiCE is offering a new subscription based model that you will love. The per User subscription allows a floating approach for a pay-what-you-use hosting.

VMware vSphere 7, the new generation of vSphere was released in April 2020. This major new release brings a massive improvement in the work experience of vSphere administrators. If you work with VMware you probably noticed many exciting new features released in vSphere 7. ​ Many of them are a bit out-of-scope for this blog post as we will primarily focus on monitoring. If you want to learn all about the latest VMware vSphere 7 release, I recommend checking out their blog.

Do you have a Prometheus histogram and have you asked yourself how to visualize that histogram in Grafana? You’re not alone. Here, we will show you how it’s done. This post assumes you already have a basic understanding of Prometheus and Grafana and it will look at Prometheus histograms from the perspective of Grafana 7.0.