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The entire team at Grafana Labs is thrilled to bring the community our latest and greatest release, Grafana 9, which we introduced at GrafanaCONline this year. In addition to introducing the Grafana Loki query builder, a new command palette, and making role-based access control GA, we also rolled out major updates to the navigation and search functionality in Grafana with the aim of continuing to support the community and users throughout their observability journey.

VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) aren’t new. They’ve been around for almost three decades and are used by practically every organization and individual who pays attention to data privacy. But the kind of benefit every user derives from a VPN may differ. While some may use it simply to protect their confidential data when browsing the internet, others may use it to escape data throttling. After all, a VPN can help you break the bandwidth barriers your ISP imposes on you.

As the world continues to face unparalleled uncertainties due to climate change, using energy efficiently is more important than ever. Time series data plays a critical role in helping organizations operate in a greener and more sustainable way. In Finland, EnerKey operates a platform that drives sustainability and energy management to unearth savings from consumption data.

Since 2013, Monitorama has been a community-driven conference, bringing together open source development and operations engineers to focus on pushing the boundaries of monitoring software and practices. It’s chock full of thought-provoking content in the conference talks. The casual atmosphere also makes the hallway track a great way to network with fellow engineers and vendors alike to pick up on new developments in the monitoring space.

We try hard to make our products as intuitive and familiar as possible, but there will always be “advanced” options and rarely-used features. Giving users choice and control over their experience will naturally lead to features that are used less frequently or settings that only a small percentage of users will change. So how do we decide what order and prominence to give to these lesser-used features?

Vendor risk ranks alongside cybersecurity, compliance, reputational, and financial risks as one of the top risks to any organization. With any risk, you need to identify, monitor, and mitigate that risk, especially when it comes to your supply chain. The question for someone in my role as a senior manager of compliance management is: What level of risk is being posed and why? Stated another way: Do I really know what my supply chain is doing?

Love it or hate it, many organizations have Microsoft Windows as part of their infrastructure. They usually operate a series of Windows services like: Although surveys report that the market share of businesses using Windows is smaller than that of businesses using Linux, many organizations still use private Windows servers that are not accessible over the internet.

pstree command is a Linux command which displays the running processes as a tree. It is a visual alternative to another similar command which is called the ps command in Linux. The root of the visual tree output from this command is either the init or the process with the given pid.

Network redundancy is process of providing multiple paths for traffic, so that data can keep flowing even in the event of a failure. Put simply: more redundancy equals more reliability. It also helps with distributed site management. The idea is that if one device fails, another can automatically take over. By adding a little bit of complexity, we reduce the probability that a failure will take the network down. But complexity is also an enemy to reliability.

One of the top priorities for MSPs is optimizing their workforce. The current industry-wide level of workforce attrition is distracting business owners from being able to focus on growing their businesses, forcing them instead to be tied up with repeatedly onboarding and training new technicians. This can result in inefficiencies, knowledge gaps, sub-optimal use of resources, and messy operations.