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Dashboard Fridays: Sample SQL AdventureWorks Dashboard

Join Adam Kinniburgh and Shawn Williams in this latest Dashboard Fridays episode on SQL AdventureWorks. Microsoft provides a common dataset called AdventureWorks when learning how to use SQL Server. Using SquaredUp, the AdventureWorks dataset can easily be visualized in any organization. In this short video, we'll demonstrate how this dashboard was built using SquaredUp dashboards, the challenges it solves, and how you can easily replicate it in your own environment.

ITSM Resolution: Don't Overspend On Tool Features

Did you know through 2023, I&O leaders will overspend by $750 million* on buying unused features of ITSM tools? That’s almost $150 million more from $600 million spend in 2019. Despite this steep increase in cost, why do so many I&O leaders continue to overbuy ITSM tools beyond their needs? This isn’t because organizational budgets are running in excess but because most I&O leaders rely exclusively on the Magic Quadrant or ITIL-based RFP templates when selecting their ITSM tool.

Transforming application logs into metrics with Istio and Grafana Cloud

Do you actually know what your customers are looking for? A way to uncover new business opportunities is to analyze your system, collect what you really need, and visualize it through a comprehensive graph! Log traces are a great place to start because they usually contain useful information on your customers' interests. You just need to transform them.

Can your AIOps platform do Log Noise Reduction in addition to Alert Noise Reduction? If not, it is time to re-evaluate your AIOps

One of the core value propositions of AIOps platforms is to increase IT efficiency & productivity by applying AI & ML techniques to perform Alert Noise Reduction. This in turn translates to direct cost reduction due to savings in IT man-hours. In this approach, the AIOps platform kind of becomes like a gatekeeper for all the IT alerts/events, and it can help effectively, reduce and correlate such events, so as to send meaningful incidents to NOC or Service Desk.

How to Troubleshoot Networks with Employees Working From Home | Obkio

With many employees now working remotely, IT teams have had to change the way they manage their networks and services. Intermittent network issues are hard to troubleshoot and more so with remote users working from home. Many of our customers have used Obkio to identify and troubleshoot network issues for their remote employees working from home. From working with these customers, we’ve encountered a lot of similar issues that remote employees often encounter.