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GrafanaCONline IoT Day recap: Real-time streaming in Grafana 8, fun DIY projects, Grafana for trains, plants, and more

Week two of GrafanaCONline 2021 is going strong! To catch the live sessions — or to watch all the videos on demand after GrafanaCONline ends on June 17 — register here. If you didn’t get a chance to watch yesterday’s presentations, here’s what you missed from Day 4 of the conference.

What role does ITIL Project Management play in ITSM?

Organizations with established ITSM strategy already know how ITSM can transform the IT department from a cost-center to a value-generating driver to offer real business value. As teams modify their service operations to meet increasing needs, IT departments are under more pressure than ever to swiftly execute changes without putting their service levels at risk. This is where organizations can leverage project management best practices along with ITSM best practices to introduce new services.

Manage incidents on the go with the Datadog mobile app

The Datadog mobile app enables you to check your alerts and dashboards from anywhere, so you can triage issues—and stay up to date—regardless of whether you have access to a laptop. You can now be even more productive when responding to issues while away from your keyboard by declaring incidents and notifying responders directly from your mobile device.

Monitor Databricks with Datadog

Databricks is an orchestration platform for Apache Spark. Users can manage clusters and deploy Spark applications for highly performant data storage and processing. By hosting Databricks on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform, you can easily provision Spark clusters in order to run heavy workloads. And, with Databricks’s web-based workspace, teams can use interactive notebooks to share datasets and collaborate on analytics, machine learning, and streaming in the cloud.

What is Network Visualization?

Network visualization is the practice of creating and displaying graphical representations of network devices, network metrics, and data flows. In plain speak, it’s the visual side of network monitoring and analysis. There’s a variety of different subcategories of network visualization, including network maps, graphs, charts, and matrices. In the world of IT networks, network management software will usually have some type of network visualization features built-in.

OpsRamp enhances partner program to drive more opportunity through the channel

Under new channel leadership, OpsRamp has rolled out a series of updates to its partner program, including a more partner-friendly profit-sharing model, enhanced lead-sharing, and more comprehensive sales assistance, complete with sales and technical training, co-marketing and demand generation, and selling resources. OpsRamp also has committed to expanding its channel team with dedicated regional channel account executives and solution engineers for technical sales support.

AWS updates for serverless builders in 2021

In this article, we’re covering all the latest updates from AWS in 2021 that serverless builders should be aware of. Before we start, let’s recall a few significant updates in serverless, announced at re:Invent 2020. One of the things that we see is that agility is really one of the primary drivers to one’s workload in the cloud and serverless is a good example of this. But the discussion often starts with cost.