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Nexthink Further Enhances UI for Experience Platform

In February 2020, Nexthink introduced its new design system, Apollo. While it unveiled some great new accessibility and design features, its true raison d’être was everything happening on the back-end, a powerful new design engine to scale and accelerate the roll-out of new features. Well, 6 months later and here we are. As promised, this latest round of enhancements offers several intuitive modifications to make IT’s life easier when supporting the Digital Employee Experience.

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips - How to Use the CLI Locally to Access the Flux REPL and Write a Regular CSV to InfluxDB Cloud

In this post we share how to use the InfluxDB CLI with InfluxDB Cloud. This TL;DR assumes that you have registered for an InfluxDB Cloud account – registering for a free account is the easiest way to get started with InfluxDB.

This is all you need to know about Lambda cold starts

So much has been written about Lambda cold starts. It’s easily one of the most talked-about and yet, misunderstood topics when it comes to Lambda. Depending on who you talk to, you will likely get different advice on how best to reduce cold starts. So in this post, I will share with you everything I have learned about cold starts in the last few years and back it up with some data.

The Complete Guide to Log Analysis: What it is, How it Works, Use Cases & Tools

Logs are one of the most valuable assets when it comes to IT system management and monitoring. As they record every action that took place on your network, logs provide the insight you need to spot issues that might impact performance, compliance, and security. That’s why log management should be part of any monitoring infrastructure.

How to configure and track deployments, identify issues, and measure performance optimizations

Learn how with the right tools and workflow in place, you can deploy code at speed, while ensuring your customers are having a lightning-fast experience. Go beyond error monitoring and see first-hand how the experts from Octopus and Raygun seamlessly configure deployments, identify and resolve issues, and measure performance optimizations in real-time.

Monitoring virtualization platforms and networks

Small and large businesses alike, opt for virtualization to optimize resource management. While you have a whole list options such as VMware, Hyper-V and Nutanix, monitoring them for their availability is just as important. Watch this webinar and learn how monitoring virtualization platforms and the underlying network infrastructure works to your benefit.

6 Network Monitoring Best Practices that Every IT Team Should Focus On

The network monitoring teams can now tap into Internet-of-Things, software-level network, and cloud-based services to ensure maximum uptime and optimal network performance. However, adapting to these technologies would mean defining new practices for legacy architecture integration, reengineering the monitoring workflow, and evaluating the toolkit for enhancing comprehensive and layered network management.

Getting the Most out of Your Website Performance Audit

A website performance audit is a full analysis of your marketing, usability, and search ranking. Audits are no sunny afternoon picnic. For your team, the task may be equivalent to getting sound-blasted with unexpected microphone feedback. Like feedback, a positive gain loop between a microphone and a loudspeaker, building up your site’s SEO with content, keywords, and ads increases your visibility to your audience.

How to get the most out of Pandora FMS User Experience

Pandora WUXServer is an internal Pandora FMS server component, which allows users to automate their web navigation sessions. The WUX or Web User Experience feature is a simple and efficient way to check the status and proper function or your websites and applications from a single centralized point (Pandora FMS). Thanks to it, you may reproduce a 100% real transaction, as if it were done by any of your users. You are even provided with the option to choose the browser this transaction may be performed with among the most popular ones in the market (Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Internet Explorer).