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6 ways to use analytics to deliver an exceptional end-user experience: Part 3

Welcome back to the last part of our three-part blog series on how to leverage analytics to deliver an exceptional end-user experience. In the previous blog, we discussed how analytics can help you identify the process-level inefficiencies lurking in your request resolution process and how you can provide better self-service experiences to end users by understanding their requirements better using analytics.

Monitor Microsoft Azure Stack HCI with Datadog

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) gives organizations more flexibility and control when building and securing their virtualized on-premises environments. Microsoft’s Azure Stack HCI is an operating system-as-a-service built for HCI backends that lets organizations deploy and manage their virtualized resources alongside any Azure infrastructure they are running.

20 Best Cloud Monitoring Tools of 2021: Pros & Cons Comparison

When providing services to your customers you need to keep an eye on everything that could impact your success with that – from low-level performance metrics to high-level business key performance indicators. From server-side logs to stack traces giving you full visibility into business and software processes that underpin your product. That’s where cloud monitoring tools and services come into play.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Modern Dashboards on the Orion Platform - SolarWinds Lab #93

Turning data into information and information into decisions are some of the most common challenges facing any monitoring professional. A clean, easy-to-interpret dashboard can go a long way in turning those raw numbers into actionable decisions. In this heavily requested follow-up episode, Kevin M. Sparenberg, technical content manager for THWACK®, presents a step-by-step build for modern dashboards.

Setting Up AppSignal Monitoring for a Ruby on Rails Application

As we’re doing our best to make monitoring easy, we’ve wanted to make more content that would really show and not just tell you how easy it is to set up monitoring with AppSignal. We’ve been collaborating with Leigh Hallday on making this video for you that will show you everything you need to know about the setup process. We’ll be posting more videos like this on our YouTube channel, so you should subscribe to it if you’d like to get notifications about future videos.

Preventing malicious use of Weave Scope

Intezer and Microsoft reported on Sept. 9 that TeamTNT hackers are deploying Weave Scope in compromised systems as an auxiliary tool in their intrusions. Weave Scope is a legitimate and powerful tool to manage server infrastructure that, once deployed, makes it easy to control all resources. In this article, we will describe how this tool can be used maliciously, and how to add specific checks in your security set up to look for it.