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New in Grafana 8.2: Test contact points for alerts before they fire

Grafana 8.2 was released last week, and we’re excited to announce one of its new features: contact point testing. Now users of Grafana 8 alerting can test their contact points right from the contact points page. This feature makes it easier to configure Grafana 8 alerting and gives you the confidence in knowing that your contact points are working as expected before they fire. Here are the basics.

Global Manager: Operate Complex IT Environments Across SL1 Stacks In a Single View

Customer Experience is at the heart of ScienceLogic product design, especially making the power of the SL1 platform easy to use. The latest release brings a slew of user interface (UI) and workflow improvements, as well as significant enhancements to the SL1 Global Manager. In this video you’ll learn how Global Manager allows teams to consolidate operations across multiple environments a single dynamic view. You’ll also discover how supporting distributed operations, regional data homing to support regulatory requirements like GDPR, multitenancy, and specialist team support is easier than ever with ScienceLogic SL1.

Resolve Customer Cases Faster with Automated Case Management

When problems occur, IT Operations must often address a recurring challenge first: wasted time. Before they can resolve the actual issue, they must manually collect critical diagnostic data from a variety of tools, open tickets, and finally route fully populated incidents details to the correct team for resolution. These delays extend service outages, increase operational costs, and worst, frustrate customers. In this video you’ll learn how ScienceLogic SL1 shrinks MTTR by automatically opening tickets, populating critical troubleshooting details, and route them to the right person at the right time.

Troubleshooting Pod issues in Kubernetes with Live Tail

With the advent of IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) and IaC (Infrastructure as Code), it is now possible to manage versioning, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines at the infrastructure level through resource provisioning and on-demand service routing. Kubernetes is the indisputable choice for container orchestration.

How to avoid spiraling up Azure Subscription costs?

Cloud adoption has got a tremendous uptrend as never before. The World pandemic has made startups, and enterprises move their legacy systems into Cloud to cut huge infrastructure maintenance costs. According to Gartner, cloud spending is forecasted to increase 23.1% at $332.3 billion in 2021 from $270 billion in 2020. We can even see enterprises using BizTalk servers moving to the Azure Cloud for better maintenance and features that confirm the above forecast.

How to generate (attractive) colors in code?

Not all colors look good. Let me rephrase: not all colors look good on everything. This is even more applicable when it comes to websites. When put next to each other, it is important for colors to look good, have the right contrast and be readable. Thankfully there are ways to generate such colors - attractive, readable and complementary - using code. I started looking into generating attractive and complementary colors when we were working on a feature involving tags.