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5 Ways Nexthink Amplify Strengthens Your Service Desk

What does a normal day look like for your service desk? A flood of incoming tickets. Insufficient data to quickly find the root cause of issues. And a lack of remediation power to close tickets fast. Level 1 (L1) analysts are forced to spend time jumping across tools, reaching out to end users, or relying on guesswork to solve problems.

Keeping Your Cloud Connections Clear: A Deep Dive into Azure Network Monitoring

Welcome to the exciting world of cloud computing, where everything is digital and the skies are always clear...or are they? With so many connections in the cloud, it's easy to get lost in a digital haze. That's where Azure Network Monitoring comes in! By keeping a watchful eye on your cloud connections, you can ensure that your data travels smoothly and your cloud experience remains crystal clear.

How to deploy the Datadog Agent on Windows with Ansible

When your organization relies on hundreds or thousands of hosts, it can be difficult to ensure that each is equipped with the proper tools and configurations. Configuration management tools like Ansible are designed to help you automatically deploy, manage, and configure hosts across your on-prem and cloud infrastructure. In this post, we’ll show you how to use Ansible to automate the installation of the Datadog Agent on a dynamic inventory of Windows hosts.

Even faster 3 am troubleshooting with new logs search and query

As an SRE putting out fires all day, it’s nice to get a good night’s sleep. But there are times when that PagerDuty alert goes off in the middle of the night, forcing you to leap into action to fix a high-priority issue. This is where having the best log analytics tool is critical to easily search and query the log data, perform deep-dive troubleshooting and analysis and quickly come to a resolution.

Migrating Graphite to the Cloud

Are you ready to take your monitoring and analysis game to the next level? As businesses increasingly shift to the cloud, migrating Graphite metrics to the cloud has become critical to unlocking the full potential of real-time performance monitoring. In this article, we'll guide you through migrating Graphite to the cloud and show you how to make the transition as smooth as possible. So grab a cup of coffee, and let's dive in!

How to Comply with Current EU Regulations NIS2 & RCE

Individual EU Member States are expected to transpose the NIS2 and RCE directives into national legislation. It will concern not only critical, essential and important entities, but also National Security Authorities and various accredited CSIRTs. In this webinar, we discuss important milestones, individual measures and obligations, and the capabilities of the Flowmon solution, which can help organisations comply with directives and paragraphs of Cyber Security Acts, especially in the area of risk-management measures, network security monitoring and incident reporting.

Introduction to Device Groups

Device Groups help prioritize what needs to be done to improve user experience. Customers use them to group by department, line of business, geography, VIP users, and any way they want. With device groupings, it’s easy to understand who has the worst digital experience and why - in real time. Combined with built-in groupings - by network connection, type of device, even by ISP - you'll have fewer issues to deal with, and when issues pop up, you'll fix them faster.

How to monitor Microsoft SQL Server performance with Grafana Cloud

A database is one of the most critical components for almost every application. Making sure it is running with the expected read and write latencies is paramount. This can be the difference between a smooth, pleasing user experience and a slow, error-filled one that makes your customers turn their back on a product — and never come back.