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Jira Automation Demystified

Repetitive tasks can be time consuming. In an ideal world, automation would remove all of the grunt work when it comes to solving business problems, freeing us up to execute on more strategic decisions. Luckily, Jira has the capabilities to take a load of tasks off your hands – including tracking your issues, posts, features, and more. This blog will walk you through the options available and offer top tips on how to set this up.

Dashboard Fridays: Zendesk

This Zendesk dashboard built in SquaredUp provides an overview of the support tickets that have been raised in Zendesk, information on tickets created, against which form, what status they are in, and how many when taken by users. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.

LM Envision Application Topology: A New Way To Visualize Application Connections

Finding service relationships and diagnosing bottlenecks within an application can be incredibly difficult to accomplish, especially if your applications are spread across multiple services, with both internal and external service calls. Although users could get granular visibility into individual traces using our Distributed Tracing features, they couldn’t see how their services were connected across different traces.

How KCB Bank Uganda greatly improved transaction service monitoring with Grafana

In 2019, KCB Bank Uganda reviewed its systems and came to a startling realization: Due to outdated monitoring processes, its services could be down for hours before anyone was alerted internally. This downtime led to frustrated consumers, a rise in customer service complaints, and a decline in revenue.

How to use monitoring and dashboards with Google Cloud Armor

Cloud Armor allows you to easily monitor your data and have peace of mind that your policies are running correctly. In this episode of Go Deep with Google Cloud Armor, we cover preconfigured and custom dashboards, Security Command Center, and using Looker for more powerful dashboarding to get even better insights from your Cloud Armor data. Watch to learn how you can use Google Cloud Armor for all your monitoring needs!

Grafana releases: New 2023 release schedule

Over the last few years, the Grafana open source project has grown at an eye-watering pace, with more than 1 million active Grafana instances now in the wild. With that growth, our processes have had to run to keep up. This is especially true when it comes to how frequently we release new versions of Grafana. Currently we cut.

Grafana Loki top 5 query performance tips

In this video, we will discuss some key tips and techniques you can use to optimize the performance of your Loki queries in Grafana Loki. By following these best practices, you can ensure that your Loki queries are executed efficiently and effectively. Start correlating your data with Grafana Cloud and the new FREE tier. Special thanks to Ed Welch for the inspiration

Guide to using the new Grafana CLI user identity conflict tool in Grafana 9.3

Here at Grafana Labs, one of the things we’re always working on is making Grafana more consistent. Given the increased adoption of Grafana around the world and the number of users and authentication providers we support, we wanted to create better defaults for login and email fields.