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In collaboration with the AWS team, we have recently released the new Athena data source plugin for Grafana. Athena is an interactive serverless service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena supports a wide variety of data formats including CSV, JSON, ORC, Arvo, and Parquet. Athena also integrates with AWS Glue Data Catalog, which allows you to create tables and query data based on a central metadata store of many AWS services, such as CloudFront, ELB, and more.

Many organizations aspire to a world where everything is in the cloud. But, in reality most IT enterprises still rely on traditional on-prem monitoring technologies. As a market-leading monitoring tool, SCOM is ideally placed for the job; monitoring both on-prem workloads or workloads that link up to the cloud. So, as SCOM is central to most companies’ monitoring, it is essential you understand how to be successful with SCOM!

Most of existing solutions for SNMP monitoring need you to configure complex dashboards. With Bleemeo, you can start in 30s to monitor your existing SNMP equipments. You need to add an extra component that will be in charge of fetching metrics of all your network equipments.

There’s little doubt that cloud computing is now the absolutely dominant force across enterprise computing. Most companies have switched from buying their own hardware and software to renting both from vendors who host their services in vast anonymous data centers around the globe.

In software, it’s essential to monitor logs of system activities. Today we’ll unravel what Linux logs are and how you can view them. Logging is a must for today’s developers and why Retrace was designed with a built-in, centralized log management tool.

SAP is one of the most business critical enterprise applications. As a result, keeping it secure is a top priority for managed service providers. In the last year SAP has notified its customers of multiple high risk vulnerabilities, through its SAP HotNews email alerts, which require urgent patching – but the challenge for MSP clients is to know “do these impact me?”