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How to Combat MSP Alert Fatigue

Managed service providers (MSPs) are responsible for monitoring hundreds or even thousands of devices, meaning that they must have a practical way of identifying incidents, vulnerabilities, and outages. The obvious choice is employing an incident alerting tool that can deliver alerts to the on-call engineers responsible for maintaining system health and performance.

New in Adaptive Logs: user-facing temporary pauses, exemptions, and per-service recommendations

We launched Adaptive Logs last year to help you optimize your log volumes and costs in Grafana Cloud, and we’ve been hard at work ever since making improvements based on your feedback. Over the past couple of months, we’ve delivered several new features to help reduce toil, apply recommendations with precision, and—what we’re most excited about—confidently optimize your log ingestion while still providing peace of mind to your end users!

9 Continuous Delivery Tools For Reliable Releases

Zoom has an interesting concept they call a “minimum version enforcement policy.” The video conferencing platform enforces a Quarterly Lifecycle Policy, meaning that every three months, specifically in February, May, August, and November, Zoom updates the minimum required versions of its apps and SDKs. All users, system admins, and developers must be on at least the specified version to continue using the platform. Why?

AI-Enabled Automotive Prototyping: Reducing Development Cycles with Rapid Tooling and Casting

The automotive industry must speed up its innovation rate because customers want electric vehicles, autonomous technologies, and more up-to-date features. Manufacturers must use automotive prototyping as an essential procedure throughout the product development phase in current rapid production environments. Before large-scale manufacturing, manufacturers can use this method to verify product designs and test performance while resolving technical obstacles.

The Role of Data and AI in Shaping Modern Maintenance Practices

In today's industrial landscape, maintenance operations are undergoing a dramatic transformation. Gone are the days of reactive fixes and estimating when equipment might fail. Instead, companies are harnessing the power of data analytics and artificial intelligence to predict issues before they occur, optimize resources, and drive better business outcomes. This digital revolution is reshaping how organizations approach maintenance, creating smarter systems that learn, adapt, and improve over time. Let's explore how data and AI are revolutionizing maintenance practices across industries.

7 Tips For Solidifying & Ensuring Client Safety In All Practices

Running a business comes with all kinds of responsibilities that are part of offering items or services for sale. You also have to balance growth, delivery, feedback, cash flow, and more. They're an intensive set of practices to manage. Yet somewhere in that long list, one thing always needs to sit near the top: how you take care of the people who put their trust in you.

How to Troubleshoot Internet Connectivity Issues for IT Pros

A reliable Internet connection is the lifeblood of nearly every organization. From seamless video conferences to uninterrupted data transfers and smooth online operations, the modern business world depends on a steady flow of data. However, as IT professionals know all too well, even the most robust networks can encounter connectivity issues that disrupt productivity and cause frustration.

How To Create A Balanced Internet Schedule For Families

Home internet establishes itself as a fundamental element that determines the ways families interact with their environment as well as their educational routine and professional activities in current connected society. Internet usage demand continues to grow among all age categories because people stream programming and do their schoolwork through the web. People benefit from internet convenience and entertainment but excessive use and unsuitable family behavior emerge when family members fail to manage their time effectively.

Lumigo brings AI-powered observability directly into your Microsoft Teams workflow

We’re excited to announce that Lumigo Copilot is now integrated with Microsoft Teams, extending the power of our AI observability assistant beyond Slack and into your Teams-based workflows. Until now, Lumigo Copilot worked exclusively within Lumigo’s UI and Slack, where teams instantly ask questions about issues, receive AI-generated observability insights, and take action without leaving their collaboration space.

Will it Monitor? Tracking the ISS in Real Time

Tracking the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbits Earth is not just a captivating endeavor for space enthusiasts, it's also an excellent demonstration of how real-time data collection and visualization can be achieved using readily available open-source tools. To monitor the ISS location and trajectory, we'll demonstrate how to set up a simple cron job to fetch it's coordinates every five minutes, parse the data into a suitable format, and visualize it on a dashboard.