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As a business owner, you are likely concerned about data usage on your company’s devices. In today’s digital age, where everything is going mobile-first, monitoring and managing data usage on corporate devices has become increasingly important for companies of any size. This article will explore why monitoring and managing data usage on corporate devices is essential, how you can do this effectively and what tools are available to help.

As part of the InfluxDB Cloud, powered by IOx launch, Paul Dix and Balaji Palani provided an InfluxDB Cloud overview and demo. In case you missed it, this blog is a quick 5 minute read summarizing the webinar. We shared the recording and the slides from the presentation for everyone to review and watch at your leisure.

The US government handles massive quantities of data — via separate agencies and disconnected data systems. Having a central dashboard to track this data is absolutely essential for uncovering and sharing cybersecurity vulnerabilities before they can do harm to citizens or critical infrastructure.

When it comes to deploying web applications, two popular options are Heroku and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. While both services aim to simplify the deployment process, they differ in several key areas. In this article, we'll compare Heroku and AWS Elastic Beanstalk and discuss the pros and cons of each service.

Blocked queries are one of the key issues faced by database analysts, engineers, and anyone managing database performance at scale. Blocking can be caused by inefficient query or database design as well as resource saturation, and can lead to increased latency, errors, and user frustration. Pinpointing root blockers—the underlying problematic queries that set off cascading locks on database resources—is key to troubleshooting and remediating database performance issues.

Good people over at Splunk explain that the platform “removes the barriers between data and action, empowering observability, IT and security teams to ensure their organizations are secure, resilient and innovative.” Splunk is a unified security and observability platform that allows companies to go from visibility to action quickly and at scale.

Welcome to March! It’s a new month with a new MSP growth habit to start focusing on. In January, I encouraged you to Never Stop Learning to kick off our list of 12 MSP growth habits. In February, I urged you to go out and Find Love in the form of updating your MSP’s social proof for your website and social media feeds. For March it’s all about stepping out of your comfort zone and exploring new market opportunities to help expand your MSP business.

It’s the year 2009, a nice weekend in late spring and a small group of monitoring enthusiasts comes together to discuss how to move forward with the idea of forking Nagios. The Icinga team in 2009, just to set the mood. Plans were made to make it faster, easier, more scalable, and simply better. Of course, such a project has a lot of hurdles to take – the most important one was of course: the name.

Budgets in IT departments are tight these days, so proving a return on investment is essential for justifying or expanding a project. The good news is that automation saves money by reducing the amount of human effort required. It is similar to investing in a robot vacuum cleaner. Despite the upfront cost, you save time (and money) by not having humans do the vacuuming. Reporting the value delivered by an automation program can be challenging since the value depends heavily on what is being automated.

By kickstarting a monitoring project with Prometheus, you might realize that you get an initial set of out-of-the-box metrics with just Node Exporter and Kube State Metrics. But, this will only get you so far since you will just be performing black box monitoring. How can you go to the next level and observe what’s beyond? They are an essential part of the day-to-day monitoring of cloud-native systems, as they provide an additional dimension to the business and app level.