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Tracking planes with Grafana in real time: How to visualize the aircraft overhead with your own dashboard

Jul 25, 2025 By Alex Burnett In Grafana
Ever since I was little, I’ve been fascinated by airplanes. Whether it was the excitement of boarding a flight for a holiday or the wonder of admiring them from the ground, there’s always been something magical about these incredible machines. Fast forward a few years, and now we have the ability to track aircraft in real-time from the palm of our hands using a variety of apps.
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cloudzero

Azure Reserved Instances: Saving Smart, Maximizing ROI

Jul 25, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Many teams buy RIs with the best of intentions (predictability and up to 72% savings) only to realize later that they’ve either overcommitted or left money on the table. Without clear visibility, what starts as a smart cost-saving move can slither into silent waste. This guide will help you get ahead of that. We’ll walk you through the ins and outs of Azure Reserved Instances, compare them to other savings options, and share best practices to help you avoid common pitfalls.
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last9

How sum_over_time Works in Prometheus

Jul 25, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
The sum_over_time() function in Prometheus gives you a way to aggregate counter resets, gauge fluctuations, and histogram samples across specific time windows. Instead of seeing point-in-time values, you get the cumulative total of all data points within your chosen range—useful for calculating totals from rate data, tracking accumulated errors, or understanding resource consumption patterns over custom intervals.
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squared up

Getting started with the Grafana plugin

Jul 25, 2025 By Blog In Squared Up
The idea of having a SquaredUp plugin for Grafana might seem a little bit unnecessary at first. They are both dashboarding products, so why would you want to create a dashboard about dashboards? The answer to this conundrum is that the SquaredUp Grafana plugin isn’t quite a matter of taking Grafana dashboards and recreating them on the SquaredUp canvas.
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Why Hiring a Professional Is a Smart Move for Business Growth

Why Hiring a Professional Is a Smart Move for Business Growth

Jul 25, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Operating a business today is not all about possessing a great idea or providing a great product. It's about making the correct moves in the proper time, particularly in marketing, operations, and planning for growth. With increasingly competitive markets and higher customer demands, handling everything in-house can easily overwhelm your staff. This is where experts come in.
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Unlocking Skin Radiance with the Power of Peptides

Unlocking Skin Radiance with the Power of Peptides

Jul 25, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In the ever-evolving world of skincare, peptides have emerged as quiet game-changers. These powerful amino acid chains are naturally found in the body and serve as building blocks for proteins like collagen, elastin, and keratin. But as we age, our body's ability to produce these proteins diminishes, leading to wrinkles, dullness, and a loss of firmness. That's where peptide-based skincare treatments come in and they're rapidly becoming a top choice for individuals seeking anatural glow and youthful appearance.
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nice

How Secure and Healthy Are Your Custom SCOM Management Packs?

Jul 24, 2025 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt
Thanks for using the NiCE Log File Management Pack. We know it’s a favorite among experts building custom SCOM Management Packs. But here’s a quick question: When was the last time someone checked your custom Management Packs for security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, or health risks?
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signoz

OpenTelemetry NestJS Implementation Guide: Complete Setup for Production [2025]

Jul 24, 2025 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
NestJS applications require comprehensive monitoring to ensure optimal performance and rapid issue resolution. As your application grows—spanning multiple services, databases, and external APIs—understanding what's happening under the hood becomes critical. That's where OpenTelemetry comes in. OpenTelemetry provides vendor-agnostic observability for your NestJS applications through distributed tracing, metrics, and logs.
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last9

Use Telegraf Without the Prometheus Complexity

Jul 24, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Every system needs observability. You need to know what your CPU, memory, disk, and network are doing, and maybe keep an eye on database query latency or Redis connection counts. But setting that up isn’t always simple. You start with a couple of shell scripts. Then come exporters. Then Prometheus. Before long, you’re managing scrape configs, tuning retention, and watching dashboards fail under load after two days of data.
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onpage

Mass Notifications for Local Government: Keeping Residents Informed During Emergencies

Jul 24, 2025 By Zoe Collins In OnPage
When unexpected risks disrupt the health and safety of the public, fast, reliable mass notification systems for local governments are essential. Without them, residents miss critical alerts that protect public health. For example, imagine a scenario like this: A water main break occurs in Waltham at 6:13 am, it took the public works team less than ten minutes to assess the damage and determine that the water is not safe to drink. However, most residents didn’t find out until hours later.
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