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Dashboard Fridays: Sample SolarWinds Orion Nodes Dashboard

This SolarWinds Orion dashboard gives an overview of nodes alongside a summary of health, using the Web API and dashboard sharing capabilities of SquaredUp. Using the powerful Web API tile in SquaredUp, the SolarWinds dashboard connects to the SolarWinds Information Services REST API endpoint, using SQL queries in the request data, in real-time. Join Adam Kinniburgh and Customer Solutions Engineer Casey as they showcase how it was made, the challenges it solves, and their top tips for building it yourself.

Managed Kubernetes Comparison: EKS vs DigitalOcean Kubernetes

The container orchestration service Kubernetes has taken cloud-native application hosting by storm. By automating infrastructure tasks, Kubernetes—an open-source system designed by Google—simplifies the technical work of application deployment, scaling, and management. Managed Kubernetes services take this process a step further, handling more of the management tasks so that engineers can focus more time and resources on developing apps.

Six sales skills MSPs need for successful selling in 2022

The MSP sales process has experienced some serious disruption over the past couple of years as a result of the pandemic, and as we make our way through this fifth wave, it is still unclear how much more we will all have to endure. But your MSP business still needs to grow—and to grow, you need sales, so what are the top sales skills your team needs to generate success in 2022?

Communicating to Users During Incidents

Imagine you're having a regular day at work, opening up your browser, double checking something for a client in that web app your team built for them, when suddenly, you see this screen: You hit refresh a few times, just to be sure. Nope. Still down. What happens next depends on how well your team has planned for incidents like this (some folks call it unplanned downtime).

New Analyst Report: The State of Microsoft 365 Performance Management

Martello recently commissioned EMA to conduct an entirely independent exploration of the state of Microsoft 365 and how enterprises are managing its performance and user experience in today’s modern workplace. With special attention given to Microsoft Teams, EMA set out to gauge the criticality, impact, performance, management, challenges, and best practices of Microsoft 365.

Real-Time Debugging of Kubernetes Applications in Production

In this talk, “Real-Time Debugging of Kubernetes Applications in Production”, Josh Hendrick from Rookout looks at some of the challenges developers typically face when remotely debugging Kubernetes applications. We then dive into a hands-on demo of how production debuggers can help you get to the root cause of issues faster, making debugging applications in remote environments much easier.

All about the Grafana Labs Hackathon 2.0

After the success of our first company-wide hackathon last June, we committed to hosting more hackathons each year. So in December, Grafana Labs invited the company to once again press pause on the daily grind and commit five days to our second hackathon. And the Grafanistas showed up: 148 staffers (almost 20% more than the last round) signed on for the week-long event that involved virtual brainstorming, collaborative coding, and creative presentations.