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SCOM 2022: What to expect and what you need to know

Microsoft System Center Operations Management team has been busy with new features and updates for SCOM. The most recent version, SCOM 2019, came out on March 14th, 2019. The release date for the upcoming SCOM 2022 has been announced to be globally available in Q1 2022. This blog post will provide an overview of some of the features you can expect to see in SCOM 2022 and how those changes may affect your experience of SCOM monitoring as a user or customer.

7 Tips for Hyper-V Monitoring that Will Boost Your VM Performance

Hyper-V is one of the most popular virtualization software, especially for Windows systems and servers. However, no software or tool can be optimized to your advantage without proper monitoring. Now, you’re probably already monitoring your Hyper-V environments, but are you doing it the best way? This post will reveal seven important tips that can help reinforce your efforts to Hyper-V monitoring, especially cluster monitoring, which is a hard task.

The 18 most popular data source plugins for Grafana in 2021

As a composable solution, Grafana allows you to bring your data into dashboards natively without having to extract it, load it, or transform it. We believe in a “big tent” philosophy, which allows you to choose the tools that best suit your observability strategy, and with our plugins, Grafana is interoperable with more than 100 data sources.

New Apps for PagerDuty's Datadog Integration

Status Dashboard by PagerDuty and Incidents by PagerDuty are new apps available now in Datadog. See a live, shared view of system health to improve awareness of operational issues with Status Dashboard by PagerDuty. Acknowledge, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents with PagerDuty actions embedded directly in the Datadog interface to limit context switching among tools. Julia Nasser and Hadijah Creary join the stream to show off this powerful enhanced integration.

Vue.JS Live 2021 Workshop: A Different Vue into Web Performance

Solving your front-end performance problems can be hard, but identifying where you have performance problems in the first place can be even harder. In this live workshop held live at Vue.JS 2021, Abhijeet Prasad, software engineer at Sentry.io, dives deep into UX research, browser performance APIs, and developer tools to help show you the reasons why your Vue applications may be slow. He'll help answer questions like, "What does it mean to have a fast website?" and "How do I know if my performance problem is really a problem?". By walking through different example apps, you'll be able to learn how to use and leverage core web vitals, navigation-timing APIs, and distributed tracing to better understand your performance problems.

React Advanced 2021 Workshop: "Building a Sentry: 7 years of open-source React"

Sentry’s Evan Purkhiser and David Wang will walk through Sentry’s 2000+ file Typescript/React codebase at a special workshop that took place at React Advanced 2021. They’ll tell war stories of the good, the bad, and the ugly. Gaze in wonder at their modern usage of Typescript, react hooks, and styled components. Recoil in disgust at their legacy Reflux usage and perplexing Webpack configuration. Step away from the workshop with a working knowledge of techniques to keep a large-scale frontend codebase modern and maintainable.

What is Kubernetes Lens?

As a DevOps Engineer, one day you’re performing magic in the terminal, settling clusters, and feeling like a god. On some other days, you feel like a total fraud and scam. Errors and bugs appear from everywhere, you don’t know where to start, and you don’t know where to look. Sadly, days like this come far too often. To be more specific, what often causes these bad days is none other than Kubernetes itself.