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Microsoft Teams Down, July 20th, 2022

Microsoft’s unified communication and collaboration tool Teams suffered an hours-long outage on July 20, 2022 — affecting thousands of users globally. Exoprise sensors successfully detected Teams outage at least 30 mins before Microsoft officially confirmed the outage on its MSFT365status Twitter account. Below is what users saw when trying to access the Teams app or leverage any of its features.

U.S. Enterprises Committing to IoT With Long-Term Plans

U.S. enterprises investing in the Internet of Things (IoT) increasingly are starting out with long-term strategies instead of just discrete proofs of concept, according to a new research report published today by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm. The 2022 ISG Provider Lens™ Internet of Things — Services and Solutions report for the U.S. finds a growing number of U.S.

Best Practice Series: Securing the Monitoring System

Network security makes the headlines at least once per day – and usually for the wrong reasons. In today's world, ensuring and maintaining a secure deployment is of utmost importance. Did you know that WhatsUp Gold provides several important security features that you can configure and manage to maintain a secure deployment? These features can help you to defend against unauthorized access to the WhatsUp Gold server as well as to devices monitored by WhatsUp Gold.

Tracing vs. Logging: What You Need To Know

Log tracking, trace log, or logging traces… Although these three terms are easy to interchange (the wordplay certainly doesn’t help!), compare tracing vs. logging, and you’ll find they are quite distinct. Logs, traces, and metrics are the three pillars of observability, and they all work together to measure application performance effectively. Let’s first understand what logging is.

How to gain Kubernetes visibility in a few clicks

Enterprises are increasingly adopting Kubernetes for the value that it brings to their organizations, from IT cost savings to improved time to market for application development. See how Sumo Logic can help you realize the value of Kubernetes faster with a guided onboarding setup that only requires a few clicks to go from zero to visibility.

Agent vs Agentless Monitoring: Which is Best?

Agent-based and agentless monitoring are the two main approaches network monitoring tools use to capture and report data from network devices. As the names suggest, the difference between the two is pretty simple: someone has to install extra software(the agent) for agent-based monitoring to work. But, that doesn’t explain why an IT team or an MSP would choose agent-based or agentless monitoring.

Azure Virtual Desktops: Questions & Answers

Recently, we hosted a great joint webinar with the team from AVD TechFest to present the results of a survey we conducted jointly to assess real-world Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) usage and industry and customer sentiments towards the AVD technologies. Alongside myself, Peter Claridge from eG Innovations and Simon Binder, digital workplace architect at Cygate and co-founder of the community-oriented AVD TechFest, were answering Azure Virtual Desktop questions.

The Next Frontier for Observability: Data Ownership with OpenTelemetry

Observability is a mindset that lets you use data to answer questions about business processes. In short, collecting as much data as possible from the components of your business — including applications and key business metrics — then using an AI-powered tool to help consolidate and make sense of this huge volume of data gives you observability into your business. Having observability for your business and applications lets you make smarter decisions, faster.

Status Pages: The Ultimate Guide

Status pages have become the end-users window into your team’s operations. Companies with status pages are doing the right thing for their users — building in some transparency while mitigating frustration and support contact. For the benefits of status pages to pay off, organizations need to treat them as something more than active wiki-pages run by support.