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GrafanaCONline 2021: Your guide to the newest announcements from Grafana Labs

In addition to all the great talks from community members about their use cases, GrafanaCONline 2021 will include a number of sessions with the Grafana team about the latest features and use cases for Grafana. Throughout the week, we’ll continue to unveil new features, go deeper with live demos, and share our plans about the future of Grafana.

8 Best Practices for Windows Patch Management

Given the numerous cyber-threats that organizations face these days, security has become one of the most serious issues on everyone’s mind. When it comes to protecting business-critical environments from malware, various security measures can make a significant difference. Patching is one such important component of ensuring the security of your infrastructure and data.

Classic Event Viewer Retires

The classic event viewer, introduced in June 2011, has been the heart of SolarWinds® Papertrail™. It’s where we spend most of our time, searching, tailing, and sharing event data. Over the last 10 years, Papertrail fans across the globe have shared their ideas with our development team and helped us improve and refine the event viewer.

Two Quick Ways to Create Spans with Kamon Telemetry

If you already had some experience with Kamon, you probably saw Kamon create Spans automatically for a lot of stuff, including HTTP server requests, database calls, actor messages, and more. But what happens when you want to create Spans for methods or code blocks that Kamon doesn’t instrument automatically? Let’s look at the two simplest ways to create Spans programmatically with Kamon.

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How IT Investment Will Be Revolutionized in 2021

Have you ever seen or heard a word repeated so often it begins to lose its meaning? This phenomenon is called "semantic satiation," and it's something I'm sure we've all experienced over the past 12 months. While special mention must go to "the new normal" and "social distancing," I'd like to throw a hat in the ring for a word that once most commonly appeared before "capacitator" in one of Doc Brown's rants in Back to the Future: "flux."