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This morning, Microsoft Teams suffered an outage with users unable to access Microsoft Teams unless they were using the Teams client. Editor’s Note: This outage lasted about 2 hours including the time to roll out a fix, Exoprise customers knew of the issue around 35 minutes before Microsoft. Exoprise proactive monitoring first detected the outage in North America starting at 7:20 AM EDT.

When Kubernetes components like nodes, pods, or containers change state—for example, if a pod transitions from pending to running—they automatically generate objects called events to document the change. Events provide key information about the health and status of your clusters—for example, they inform you if container creations are failing, or if pods are being rescheduled again and again. Monitoring these events can help you troubleshoot issues affecting your infrastructure.

By storing copies of your content in geographically distributed servers, content delivery networks (CDNs) enable you to extend the reach of your app without sacrificing performance. CDNs lessen the demand on individual web hosts by increasing the number and regional spread of servers that are able to respond to incoming requests for cached content. As a result, they can deliver web content faster and provide a better experience for your end users.

In a world where technology is ubiquitous, network security is of paramount importance. Every day that goes by, cybercrime evolves and becomes more sophisticated. They improve the materials of their balaclavas and spend more on incognito sunglasses. In 2015, the damage caused by cybercrime already cost the world 3 trillion dollars, since then the figure has only multiplied. No wonder companies are looking for ways to protect themselves against cyberattacks, don’t you think?

Bitcoin and Coinbase have been in some hot water lately. How they handle cryptocurrency might not be legal or safe. The lack of regulations is causing concern from the government about potential criminal activity, fraud, and money laundering. The good news? Rules are being implemented for crypto exchanges to stop corrupt events from happening. Regulations like Know Your Customer (KYC) are an absolute must for exchanges to keep operating legally.

Grafana dashboards enable millions of users to visualize and analyze their data. And working behind the scenes of the widely used open source platform is React, a frontend JavaScript library for building user interfaces. In this post — which was inspired by my recent presentation at React Summit 2023 in Amsterdam — we’ll explore why we chose to use React for Grafana, and the benefits and challenges we’ve seen along the way.

Welcome again to another Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: Solutions for Seamless Integration! This time we selected a different problem but a very common scenario in Enterprise Integration: File transfer. But in this very particular case: How to copy.gdoc files from Google Drive into another place using Azure Logic App?

In this post I will introduce sysgrok, a research prototype in which we are investigating how large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI's GPT models, can be applied to problems in the domains of performance optimization, root cause analysis, and systems engineering. You can find it on GitHub.

Benefits of GitOps in IT monitoring The GitOps model has gained popularity as a software development approach. It enables IT teams to deliver higher-quality software faster and more efficiently. By streamlining and automating the development process, GitOps provides substantial productivity improvements while ensuring comprehensive observability for monitoring and control.

Kentik customers can now map traffic and performance of Microsoft Azure infrastructure with visibility into Azure Firewalls, Express Routes, Load Balancers, VWANs, and more in Kentik Cloud.