(Editor’s note: This guest Mattermost Recipe was contributed by Brian Hopkins, a member of the Mattermost community.) Here’s the next installment of a new series of posts we’re doing on the Mattermost blog: Mattermost Recipes. The goal of these posts is to provide you with solutions to specific problems, as well as a discussion about the details of the solution and some tips about how to customize it to suit your needs perfectly.

A new MIT Technology Review report reveals why—and how—application performance monitoring (APM) is the key to deriving maximum business value from the Internet of Things. Here’s what IT pros can learn from the findings.

The jobs of everyone involved in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) are made easier by having application and business performance information easily available.

It’s pretty well known that we live in a connected, always-on world where seconds matter when it comes to customer happiness. There are smaller incident management solution providers that offer what looks to be competitive pricing—but it’s important to consider the bigger picture outside basic alerting and incident response.

Announcing the following new integrations: Salesforce Service Cloud, Updown.io, Splunk IT Service Intelligence integration

Google Stackdriver lets you track your cloud-powered applications with monitoring, logging and diagnostics. Using Stackdriver to monitor Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) projects has many advantages—you get detailed performance data and can set up tailored alerts. However, we know from our customers that many businesses are bridging cloud and on-premises environments.

We’ve talked about the increasingly-interconnected nature of cloud tools and the domino-goes-crashing-down effect thatcan happen when just one critical service has downtime. Web uptime is more important than ever, and it’s critical that these services we all rely on are up and running as often as possible.

Announcing the following new integrations: Salesforce Service Cloud, Updown.io, Splunk IT Service Intelligence integration

It’s the first day of summer and the perfect opportunity for our summer Sysdig Monitor release round up. For those of you following our progress, we use these blogs to showcase the work we’ve done to add increased functionality, scale, and usability with Sysdig Monitor. What follows are quick descriptions of all the good stuff we’ve made available over the past few months.

The toughest IT performance problems to solve today are the ones where a user complains that their application access is slow. An IT administrator must then figure out the cause of the problem: is it the browser, the network, the server, the storage, the cloud infrastructure on which the application is hosted, or the application code?