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Announcing the latest dashboard enhancements

When we first released our custom dashboard over a year ago, we had the needs of our customers in mind. The customizable tiles go a long way in ensuring that the dashboard meets your data display needs while being easy to use. We’re always improving the Raygun dashboard—here’s the latest from the app team.

Automate Tasks with AWS Systems Manager and Opsgenie Actions: A Use Case

Opsgenie Actions enable you to automate manual, repetitive tasks so that your resources are freed up to concentrate on higher-value work. This blog post is the first in a series of use cases in which we discuss how Opsgenie works with various third-party automation platforms to automate these traditionally manual tasks—right from the Opsgenie console or mobile app— to reduce interruptions for your on-call responders, and ultimately help your bottom line.

SIEM vs. Security Analytics

SIEM has been with us for almost two decades now and is seen as a proven approach to dealing with potential threats as well as actual attacks on business critical systems. But today, it is becoming clear that changes in IT infrastructure and deployment practices are giving rise to new challenges that cannot be met by existing SIEM platforms.

Apply for Sentry's Open Source Grant

Work should be fun. Sometimes it’s not, especially when your full-time job isn’t aligned with something you care about — like open source. Contributing to open source full-time is an opportunity not available to everyone. We’d like to change that with the Sentry Open Source Grant, which offers funding to an individual dedicated to working on an open source project for three months.

Windows Management Instrumentation in remote monitoring

Pandora FMS features include decentralized monitoring, which is based on several standards and/or protocols of common and open use (SNMP v1 and v2 -v3 from version 7.0 NG 727-, ICMP and WMI). In this article we will talk about the latter, starting from the simplest and with references to each of the articles published here in your blog.

Coding with Confidence - CloudBees + Honeycomb

DevOps, Observability, Continuous Delivery, Test in Production, Chaos Engineering, and Software Ownership are all major themes in software development today, but why? In an ideal world, we get everything right the first time, nothing breaks, no one DDOS’ us, and the weather report is “Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.” Reality of course is different – and better, to be honest.

Improving MSP Incident Alert Management

Improving MSP Incident Alert ManagementAs the big game approaches this Sunday, I’ve been thinking about the NFL’s introduction of instant replay and how it makes the league much more enjoyable! Whether you’re rooting for the Patriots led by Tom Brady … or the Rams, you can’t deny that instant replay makes every Super Bowl much more efficient and adds more clarity to the game.

5 Security Best Practices for Network Devices

It’s a sad but common truth that not all network devices are built with security in mind. Some ship with default credentials like admin / admin, with SNMP set to public, or with operating systems that haven’t been updated in years. As with any other device, it’s important to practice good hygiene when managing network devices. Good hygiene means things like keeping firmware up to date, changing credentials away from the defaults, and refreshing end-of-life hardware and software.

The 4 Requirements of a Better Digital Experience

Better employee experience drives better business outcomes1. The result? Technology is no longer the driving force of IT — instead, the end-users’ digital experience is the key to unlocking business value and driving ROI. The challenge? Mending the gap between traditional metric-based monitoring and the need for real-time, contextual data about the end-user experience. Here’s how to get started.