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An Observability Agent for the Cloud Era: Why Cribl Edge Matters

A few weeks ago, I did a live Cribl Edge demo for the Cribl Community, and I wanted to explain more about the importance of Cribl Edge for IT admins. Managing traditional log shipping agents is very time-consuming and brittle. Just the act of a once-a-year upgrade can require the help of a kind god! Admins need help to make this vital workflow easier and faster so they can focus time on delivering value to the business.

Why Your Business Needs To Monitor Microsoft Teams

To give your business the best Microsoft Teams experience you need to monitor Microsoft Teams make sure all the features you are paying for are actually working. To do that, you need visibility into how it is working, how well it is working, and where any problems might arise.

Will 'Back to the Office' Mandates Help or Hurt Company Culture?

The past several years have proved that productivity and business growth do not rely on employees going into the office every day. But are the more intangible benefits of in-person work being lost in today’s remote/hybrid workplaces? That’s the question on the minds of a lot of business leaders, particularly as they weigh the pros and cons of a “back to the office” policy.

How to Optimize IT Costs with Tailored End User Personas

Standardization (treating everyone the same) may work for IT, but it does not work for employees. If IT gave each employee the same device and tech stack, what would be the result? Some employees wouldn’t have the tools they need, others would have too many. Every employee would be confused and unsatisfied with their work setup. Not exactly the recipe for a productive enterprise with cost effective IT, is it?

Monitoring robots in real time with Grafana and other cloud native solutions

Edgardo Peregrino is a freelance software developer, writer, maker and IT technician. For six years now, I’ve been a passionate maker with a focus on robotics. Recently, I entered the world of cloud native computing, which has allowed me to integrate maker projects with open source tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Jaeger.

We Learn Systems by Changing Them

It is only possible to come to an understanding of a system of interest by trying to change it. Here, Jackson contrasts action research with old-style hard science, which tries to study a system from the outside. Laboratories draw a line between experiment and scientist. In the social world, there is no outside: we participate in the systems we study. I’ve noticed this in code: when I come to an existing codebase, I get a handle on it by changing stuff.

Nobl9's Service Level Objectives Platform Runs on InfluxDB

Tracking Service Level Objectives (SLOs) helps developers build more reliable software. At least, that’s the hope of Nobl9. The company’s self-titled SLO platform provides real-time data to software developers, DevOps practitioners, and reliability engineers so that they have the information they need to build reliable features quickly.

Top 4 Use Cases for Using Restorepoint for MSP Compliance

The managed services provider (MSP) industry is at a pivotal moment in its history. With data management, security, and privacy regulations getting strengthened and added to the books all over the world, and with awareness of the risks associated with those issues on the rise, MSPs must take their role in compliance seriously. Any failure to do so will put individual MSPs at a competitive disadvantage, and incidents involving MSPs will be a stain on the industry’s reputation.

Minify CSS and JavaScript to accelerate website speed

Minification is the technique of terminating all undue extra characters from the source code. This method reduces file sizes, allowing for faster load times and less bandwidth load. Less code appearing in front-end web pages also leads to a more compact, faster-loading website. Most importantly, minification speeds up web pages for users on limited data plans, allowing them to enjoy your content with less worry about exceeding their download quota.