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Ringing In the New Year With Splunk and Microsoft: Three New Integrations

Like champagne and party hats, Splunk and Microsoft just go together. Here at Splunk, one of our New Year’s resolutions is to continue to empower our customers with data — in this case, Microsoft data. From cloud, to security, to troubleshooting, we’re back with the latest round of new integrations designed to help you do more with Splunk and Microsoft.

A Gem of an Update: Performance Monitoring for Ruby

In order to continuously improve your Ruby application, you need to understand everything your code touches. That means visibility into how your frontend responds to the database queries that are central to your Ruby application. Sentry’s new Ruby SDK collects and monitors the data surrounding your traces, logs, and key metrics. With it, you now have the context to connect backend issues to frontend performance.

How to Set up an Integration with Slack

In this week’s tech tip, we are going to show you how to set up an integration with the instant messaging and collaboration app, Slack. These days, collaboration tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams are indispensable to the distributed workforce. In addition to being an instant messaging system that lets you bypass email, Slack has lots of add-ins for other workplace tools.

Leading Video Conferencing Platforms Unveil New Waves of Integrations

Over the past year, many organizations have stagnated or struggled as a result of the global pandemic. Other businesses, specifically those who benefit from the widespread shift to remote work, have achieved unprecedented growth—none more so than video conferencing providers. Now, platforms like Microsoft Teams and Zoom are introducing new features that position them to become much more than video communication tools.

PagerTree Forms Integration

Today, we are excited to announce a new integration - PagerTree Forms! PagerTree Forms are simple (PagerTree hosted) forms that can be made public so your customers can quickly create an alert outside the PagerTree ecosystem. PagerTree Forms also support custom CNAMES so you can host them on your own domain (ex: https://support.example.com). The CNAME option is secured via HTTPS using self signed Let’s Encrypt certificates.

Netdata and StackPulse: Per-second metrics meet automated remediation

Teams of all types use Netdata to monitor the health of their nodes with preconfigured alarms and real-time interactive visualizations, and when incidents happen, they troubleshoot issues with thousands of per-second metrics on Netdata Cloud. But based on the complexity of the team and the infrastructure they monitor, some parts of their incident management, such as pre-planned communication and escalation processes, or even automated remediation, need to happen outside of the Netdata ecosystem.

AlertOps Automates Ticket Lifecycle with ConnectWise Manage Integration

Chicago, Illinois — November 23, 2020 — AlertOps has integrated its major incident management platform with the ConnectWise Manage professional services automation (PSA) software. The integration empowers end-users to forward ConnectWise Manage tickets to AlertOps as alerts and increase visibility across the ticket lifecycle. With the integration, users can automatically create an alert in AlertOps and a ticket in ConnectWise Manage at the same time.

Unlocking Productivity with Freshservice Orchestration Center

As businesses continue to grow, the diversity and complexity of infrastructure components, applications and processes increase. It is important for the IT team to manage interactions with these hybrid components seamlessly for the effective functioning of the organization. By 2021, over 75% of midsize and large organizations will have adopted a multi cloud and/or hybrid IT strategy – Gartner Introducing Orchestration center for all your integration needs.

Mattermost integrations: Sending and receiving data with outgoing webhooks

In a previous article, you learned how to receive data from an external source. In this article, you learn how to send a request or data to an external source using outgoing webhooks. As you learned from the first article in this series, we already receive alerts in Mattermost when the temperature of our fridge is too high. But what if we want to send a request to our fridges to give us the current temperature?