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How we scaled our new Prometheus TSDB Grafana Mimir to 1 billion active series

Last week, we announced our new open source TSDB, Grafana Mimir, which lets you scale your metrics monitoring to 1 billion active series and beyond. The announcement was greeted with a lot of excitement and interest – and some questions too. Namely: Really, 1 billion? Yes, really!

What Is the Importance of Condition-Based Asset & Equipment Monitoring?

It has been seen several times that organizations provide maintenance only after sudden asset failure or sometimes too much maintenance is provided to the asset. In these types of scenarios, the actual performance of the asset is not seen & calculated. Therefore, providing maintenance on time to assets is important. However, maintenance shall be neither too much nor too little. Organizations shall emphasize condition-based assets monitoring so that Maintenance is done on time. To fulfill this purpose.

The Complete SaaS Budgeting Guide For Tracking Cloud Spend

For SaaS companies, the cloud plays a significant role in product creation and delivery. As one of the top drivers of COGS, cloud costs have a major impact on key financial metrics and can dramatically impact revenue and valuation. However, that creates a scenario ripe for conflict: Engineers make important decisions about features and functionality without clear insight into how those decisions will impact spending—and finance continuously gets surprised by seemingly exorbitant cloud bills.

Building Oh Dear's new design: Project setup

We are currently rebuilding the Oh Dear website and application frontend. The goal is to go next level in aesthetics and user experience. The Oh Dear redesign will be launched later this year. In this post, you'll read more about the project setup and tools used. This is the first blog post of a series that will share progress and the knowledge gained along the way.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample SQLFacts dashboard

The ugly truth when working with SQL Server is that there usually isn’t much money left over for monitoring once you pay for the license. Most DBAs accept this reality by implementing a custom data collection. But what happens when all you want is to visualize that data quickly? Tune into our latest Dashboard Fridays video to see this SQLFacts dashboard built to visualize the powerful suite of free tools.

Getting Smart with M&A, Part One-Why Standardization Is Critical

In my previous blog, I looked at what’s currently going on in the MSP market with respect to mergers and acquisitions. I also set the scene to discuss some of the key things we’ve learned from this activity and how this is helping to shape the way we are supporting our partners that are going through this process.