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Best Practices for Cloud Monitoring

In our last episode, we covered best practices for deploying and using Cloud Operations in an enterprise environment. But we still left some questions unanswered. How should you monitor your services? How should you deal with alerts? And what about managing cost? In this episode of Engineering for Reliability, Yuri discusses best practices for setting up and using Cloud Monitoring and optimizing monitoring costs.

Introducing the AWS CloudWatch integration, Grafana Cloud's first fully managed integration

At Grafana Labs, we are continuing to build integrations that make it easier than ever to observe your systems, no matter which tools or software you choose. Today, we’re excited to talk about the latest integration available in Grafana Cloud: the AWS CloudWatch metrics integration, the first of our fully managed integrations that makes it simple to connect and visualize your data in Grafana.

AMA Responses: Icinga for Windows

00:10 Will there be any further Windows development in Icinga 2 except for the Windows agent part?

01:10 Are the Windows plugins considered to be deprecated?

02:12 Is it possible to only have the Icinga agent and the plugins without having the whole Icinga for Windows framework?

03:38 Are there plans to provide the PowerShell plugins as standalone, so one can use the plugins without the framework stuff?

Fail-Safe Digital Scheduler for On-Call Management

In this video, we discuss how OnPage's advanced, fail-proof digital schedules enable organizations to distribute workload evenly among scheduled, On-Call team members. The OnPage scheduler starts out "FULL" and schedules are created on top of it. This guarantees that a notification is delivered reliably, even when a slot is left empty on the scheduler. The scheduler reverts to the default group order and the entire group is notified, ensuring continuous coverage across your organization.

Accelerating Digital Operations in Government

Mattermost has proudly served government and public sector organizations of all types since we got our start in 2016. We have always embraced our role as the open source collaboration platform that can deliver developers and other technical teams the tools needed to accelerate digital operations through better collaboration, in a secure and self-managed environment. Today we emphasize our commitment to these organizations further with the launch of Mattermost Government Solutions.