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Hi Everyone! I am thrilled to reconnect with you all through another blog post, offering a glimpse into the latest buzz at Uptime.com. With our team firing on all cylinders, we’ve been hard at work delivering enhancements and exciting new features. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the latest additions and tease what’s coming up in 2024 – without giving away all the surprises just yet!

Monitoring can get expensive due to the huge quantities of data that need to be processed. In this blog post, you’ll learn the best ways to store and process monitoring metrics to reduce your costs, and how VictoriaMetrics can help. This blog post will only cover open-source solutions. VictoriaMetrics is proudly open source. You’ll get the most out of this blog post if you are familiar with Prometheus, Thanos, Mimir or VictoriaMetrics.

One area where communication breakdowns commonly occur is between helpdesk / IT teams / SREs and database administrators (DBAs), especially when troubleshooting application problems associated with databases. Smooth communication between different teams is key to resolving application performance issues efficiently and speedily. However, it is usually inappropriate for helpdesk staff to have access to the database monitoring privileges and tools used by DB administrators.

Introducing the alternative to expensive all-encompassing Enterprise Plans: AppSignal Business Add-ons. With our Business Add-Ons, you only need to pay for the features that matter to you, giving you the additional features your organization needs with the same freedom and flexibility all AppSignal customers enjoy. We currently have two Business Add-Ons on offer: In this blog post, we'll give you a whistle-stop tour of our new Business Add-Ons and explain how to add them to your organization's plan.

PromQL-based alerting policies and our command-line tool for importing dashboards from Grafana are now available in Cloud Monitoring.

Once you set up an on-call team, the next step is to decide their compensation. There might be several questions in your mind right now: "How do we fairly value on-call time?" "Is it a flat rate or hourly?" and a few others. So we are here to help you set up an on-call compensation system because we know compensating people fairly lays the foundation of a healthy business. Are you still stuck on setting up an on-call team? Read this guide first: 7 steps to set up an on-call team.

Data-centric AI is the new frontier in AI, where the models themselves now remain stationary while tools, techniques and engineering practices improve data quality. As Andrew Ng puts it, “Data-centric AI is the discipline of systematically engineering data to build an AI system.”

We are thrilled to announce the release of NiCE DB2 Management Pack version 5.30 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and Azure Monitor SCOM MI. This latest update introduces a host of exciting features and enhancements, further solidifying NiCE’s commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions for IBM Db2 monitoring. Let’s dive into the key highlights of the NiCE DB2 Management Pack 5.30.

It was almost exactly 10 years ago in December 2013 that we wrote our first blog post about detecting CryptoLocker, which was the first sophisticated Ransomware attack of its kind back then. BTW, 2013 was the year of the Boston Marathon bombing, Edward Snowden leaking secret NSA information, Syrians fleeing their home country and Nelson Mandela passing away.