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London, UK – December 16, 2020 – LogicMonitor, the leading cloud-based IT infrastructure monitoring and observability platform, has been named Large Tech Company of the Year in the UK Business Tech Awards for 2020. Judged by an independent panel of some of the UK’s leading technology experts, the awards celebrate the UK’s finest tech businesses and reward innovative and exceptional application of technology to transform and grow businesses.

Being able to visualize data from all of your tools in a unified dashboard experience has become critical to most enterprises today. With SquaredUp dashboards, you can not only correlate data from SCOM and Azure, but also surface critical information from your other tools and data sources – including ServiceNow, Azure Log Analytics, App Insights, all SQL databases and any Web API. In short, you can get unified dashboards with real-time operational intelligence for all teams across all tools.

This week, an unfortunate incident got reported by the cybersecurity firm FireEye. According to FireEye, FireEye’s system was hacked via a product they were using, called Orion. Orion is SolarWinds’ most popular product, bringing in more than 50% of their revenue every year. It is believed that hackers funded by foreign governments compromised the networks of both public and private organizations via their SolarWinds monitoring service.

Many of our customers rely on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework as a guide to build safe, secure, and performant applications in the cloud. AWS offers the Well-Architected Review (WAR) Tool as a centralized way to track and trend adherence to Well-Architected best practices. It allows users to define workloads and answer a set of questions regarding operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

Website, web application, and API performance is everything. Many factors contribute to performance, such as network latency, use of performance-enhancing practices (use compression), minimizing server requests, and the strength of responding servers and their supporting infrastructure. If server performance is slipping due to load or age, you can find the signs in your reports.

The ending year has been a tremendous burden for all of us. Managing to navigate through these times is not easy. The more we are happy to see so many of our customers and partners doing so well in coping with the new situation. Resilience is the keyword for 2020.

The Well-Architected Tool is a new AWS service that compares the state of your workloads with AWS architectural best practices. Splunking your workload state and improvement recommendations will give you better insights into your applications as well as best practices to follow along your cloud journey. The Well-Architected integration in Grand Central will give you workload insights broken down by the following 5 pillars.

Are you new to InfluxDB v2.0 and Flux? Are you intimidated by learning a new time series scripting and query language? Perhaps you’re an InfluxDB v1.x user and you’re familiar with InfluxQL, and you’re unconvinced that learning Flux is worth your while? This two-part blog series aims to demonstrate the power of Flux and walk you through solutions to the top hurdles for both new and old InfluxDB users.

Now that you’ve read through Top 5 Hurdles for Flux Beginners and Resources for Learning to Use Flux, you’re well on your way to being an advanced Flux user. This post includes some of the top hurdles for intermediate Flux users as well as solutions.

I might be dating myself, but I began working in the IT service industry back in the late 90s. During the same time, the now infamous Saturday Night Live comedy skit—Nick Burns, Your Company’s Computer Guy, played by Jimmy Fallon—started to gain popularity for its over-the-top rendition of IT.