Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Grafana Agent v0.38 release: new OpenTelemetry components, configuration improvements, and more

Grafana Agent v0.38 has hit the digital shelves just before the holiday season! 🧑‍🎄 The elves over at Grafana Labs have been quietly working on Grafana Agent, with more than 50 updates for all SREs and developers to use — no matter if you’re on the naughty or nice list. This includes new features, improvements, bug fixes, and significant ease-of-use changes.

AVD Monitoring for MSPs (Managed Service Providers)

AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop) has grown in popularity and for many reasons many organizations are choosing to consume AVD via a specialist Managed Service Provider (MSP). For the MSPs offering AVD, monitoring and troubleshooting AVD especially for multi-tenant environments is challenging and involves significant, costly and skilled effort using native tools such as Azure Insights or Azure Monitor.

Generative AI explained

When OpenAI released ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, no one could have anticipated that the following 6 months would usher in a dizzying transformation for human society with the arrival of a new generation of artificial intelligence. Since the emergence of deep learning in the early 2010s, artificial intelligence has entered its third wave of development. The introduction of the Transformer algorithm in 2017 propelled deep learning into the era of large models.

A Guide to Predictive Maintenance & Machine Learning

Various economic pressures on businesses have created a focus on new and innovative ways to manage operational costs. At the same time, businesses are looking at using IT to help manage overall business costs and increase income—for example, by supporting remote working, and in many cases, enabling e-commerce to replace closed retail outlets. Management of infrastructure to minimize downtime has two major benefits: reductions in support and maintenance costs and improvements in service levels.

Compound Alerts Within Database Observability Drive Actionable Alerting

The latest edition to the SolarWinds® Observability Platform, Database Observability, is live! Previously, you’ve relied on Database Manager to help monitor your database and generate alerts, and while it was ahead of its time for years, the time has come for the next generation of database monitoring. Key features of Database Observability are: The compound alerting feature is what I want to focus on in this post, though. In my opinion, compound altering is a game changer.

Azure Integration Services End to end management & monitoring scenarios -Wagner and Slava Koltovich

In this session titled "Azure Integration Services end to end management and monitoring scenarios" by Wagner Silveria and Slava Koltovich from Microsoft, they delve into the intricacies of Azure Integration Services. This session unveils the latest strategies for end-to-end management and monitoring scenarios in integration applications. Experience real-time demos, including a deep dive into the integration solution for Customer Service Power Outages, showcasing the unified experience and innovative Business Process Tracking.

Elevate Your IT Service Offering with an Official Icinga Partnership

In the dynamic landscape of IT services, staying ahead of the curve is not just a strategy but a necessity. For IT service providers already consulting clients on monitoring solutions, taking the next step to engage in an official partnership with Icinga can be a transformative move. Let’s explore the reasons why such a partnership can elevate your service offering and provide substantial benefits for both your business and your clients.

Monitor Amazon S3 Express One Zone with Datadog

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) now offers a high-performance storage class, S3 Express One Zone, that delivers consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most latency-sensitive applications. Designed for your most frequently accessed datasets, S3 Express One Zone replicates and stores your data within a single AWS Availability Zone, scales to process millions of requests per minute, and uses hardware and software optimized for low latency.

What Temperature Should Your Data Center Be?

Over the past 5 years, the average server rack density increased from 5kW to 8-10kW, prompting temperature rises in the data center. These temperature increases can become a major issue if not handled properly. Maintaining the correct temperature is extremely important because nearly 30% of unplanned data center outages are caused by environment issues. Not monitoring and analyzing your environment can have a negative impact on energy and resource efficiency.

Introducing Uptimia's Domain Monitoring Tool: Never Miss a Domain Expiration Again!

In the realm of online management, staying vigilant about the expiration date of domain names is paramount. Uptimia's Domain Monitoring Tool emerges as a solution to streamline this process, providing timely alerts to prevent the oversight of crucial domain renewal deadlines.