Back in the days, the role of the CIO was relatively clear: the focus was on deploying, managing, and maintaining IT systems across the organization. The CIO’s responsibilities started to blur when end-users became more tech-savvy - around the millenium. Reasons were that ‘they can now get their own technology and don’t need IT to do it for them’. This even led to the much-repeated “death of the CIO meme”.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a preview of Timestream in November 2018 before releasing the full version in October 2020. AWS Timestream is a time series database that can process trillions of events daily. It is faster and less costly than relational databases offered by AWS for processing time-series information. In this article, we will look at what Timestream can do compared to some other AWS databases, and how to use Timestream to help monitor the health of your system.
We’re constantly looking for interesting integrations for our performance incidents, exception incidents, anomaly detection and uptime monitoring notifications, and our latest addition is an integration for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams is a hub for team collaboration in Microsoft 365. It integrates people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective.
At PromCon last month, Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs VP of Product, described the origin and purpose of Prometheus remote write and previewed exciting developments on the road map. “We covered our efforts to standardize remote write, document how it works and why it works that way, and then test implementations,” Wilkie said. “In the next release or two of Prometheus, we’ll improve how we send metadata via remote write and start sending exemplars.
Performing day-to-day IT tasks can be demanding—not because all tasks are challenging to carryout, but because of the repetitive nature of many tasks. A high number of mundane, repetitive tasks impacts productivity. Over time, these repetitive, no-brainer tasks can even eat away so much valuable time that it effectively halts your organization’s growth.
Everyone says the cloud is the future. Sure, but try telling that to someone who has terabytes of sensitive data stored in an on-prem InfluxDB Open Source (OSS) instance, and they will bring up a whole set of reasons why it doesn’t make sense for them to move into the cloud right now. There are also some use cases which make more sense for on-prem software deployments.
It’s hard to imagine our work lives without collaboration tools. Whether you attend Zoom meetings or brainstorm projects (and send the occasional humorous GIF) on Slack, these solutions have become foundational elements of the workplace – even moreso in recent times, when most workplaces became more digital than ever before.
