Microsoft’s cloud-based platform Azure has helped many businesses expand and cut back on their costs associated with hosting and storing data on a traditional server. Furthermore, the platform has given developers a chance to create, manage, and deploy powerful applications capable of assisting cloud customers to perform any number of tasks. From handwriting recognition to text sentiment analysis and Bing ad-free image search, Azure’s ML-based services spans many areas.

Any IT environment needs a monitoring system, but which one should we use? We can opt for traditional and more limited systems, or for current monitoring systems such as Pandora FMS. In order to facilitate the task to any user that needs it, from the Pandora FMS team we have developed a method to migrate SNMP monitoring data in order to learn how to migrate Cacti to Pandora FMS in a fast and easy way.

Many of our users come to ChangeTower in search of a website monitoring solution for their password-protected websites. While your browser inherently recognizes you when browsing your sites, website monitoring services are essentially going to be monitoring your webpages in ‘incognito’ mode and often times need to get past a login screen in order to get to the content you’d like to check for changes.

We want you to get started on the right foot when setting up your Web Application Monitoring, so we put together this list of 12 things for you to remember when recording your transactions.

Raygun’s Launch Notes are your regular roundup of all the improvements we made to Raygun in the last month — from major feature releases to performance updates.

This week the Grafana Labs team was busy prepping for the Grafana v5.3 stable release! Grafana v5.3 adds Stackdriver as a core datasource, a new graphical query editor for Postgres, enhancements to TV and kiosk mode, and a lot more. See the release section for a list of all the new features.