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What's new in Grafana Cloud for July 2021: Traces, live streaming, Kubernetes and Docker integrations, and more

If you’re not already familiar with it, Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started observing metrics (Prometheus and Graphite), logs (Grafana Loki), traces (Grafana Tempo), and dashboards. Here are the latest features you should know about!

Lights out for SDH: What you need to know but were afraid to ask

Although SDH has been hugely successful, and we have learned a huge amount from it, we have now reached the point where supply is end of life. Fortunately, we now have technologies that deliver equal or better performance at a much lower cost. However, migrating legacy SDH services onto these new technologies can prove to be extremely expensive. Watch this webinar on-demand for.

OpenSearch Tutorial: Getting Started with Install and Configuration

OpenSearch is a community response to the recent relicensing of Elasticsearch as a non-Open Source platform. AWS, Logz.io, and a number of partners have been working for months not only to make this merely compatible with Elasticsearch as a functional replacement, but also seeking to create an independent project roadmap.

The Confident Commit | Episode 6: Architecture meets delivery with Chris Richardson

Rob interviews Chris Richardson on how engineering metrics can help teams evaluate the effectiveness of their architecture. The two discuss how a team's architecture can enable or inhibit their ability to make changes quickly and confidently. How do you balance rapid delivery and finding product-market fit with getting to a stable, workable system over time? Tune in today!

Connection Center for Webhooks Intro

Cookdown Connection Center can integrate SCOM with anything, anywhere…! We simply use Webhooks to convert critical SCOM alerts into actionable notifications in real-time. So, now you can push alerts from SCOM to any application supporting Webhooks, which means your team can view alerts in their favorite tools. Find out how Connection Center can get your stakeholders more engaged and better connected!

Project Management Workflow - Why Does It Matter?

Do your projects often lack a sense of general direction? Are you regularly confused about what you should be doing next? To be productive and efficient, you should implement a project management workflow into your operation. This can help to bring order to chaotic situations and enhance your team’s productivity across the board. A project management workflow is a crucial component of any effective operation.

Migrating Between Monitoring Systems

This question comes up all the time: How do you migrate between monitoring systems? The answer is both simple and complicated. In order to understand this better, rather than just rely on my own knowledge, I reached out to a number of people to see how they accomplished this. I’m going to summarize their process for you here in order to help others who may find themselves in need of this information.

Hardening N-able RMM

When security is done well it’s not always convenient. Advanced security can sometimes even mean minor inconveniences to MSPs and their employees. But the rise in ransomware attacks requires improved security measures and harder environments, making small inconveniences worth it in the long run. In this blog I’ll look at some options for how you can harden your N-able™ RMM dashboard.

Can MS Teams be Connected to xMatters to Post Messages? - Ask Adam

Using MS Teams Connectors to post messages from xMatters is a simple way to keep people updated about what's going on in your process. You can configure the Connectors in Teams yourself without the help of your Teams admin when you know where to look! When I setup the Connector I used this image to represent xMatters. I'd love to hear any ideas you have for more videos, what you're working on, or anything you've done but would've really liked to have some help with in the comments below!