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This video reviews the steps you can take to reduce the size of your WhatsUp Gold database using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), as well as the areas you should examine to keep your database from growing too large in the future.

In this video, Grafana Developer Advocate Leandro Melendez shows how you can get Grafana OSS up and running in Windows.

If you want to improve reliability, it has to be important from the top down. "As part of the CTO or leadership owning it, they need to tell folks that it's important in the product roadmap, in some of the development schedule, that we spend time on it, that the CEO is the person that holds people accountable, that they review the metrics, that they sit in the outages, that they understand the quality of the software.

Introducing Gremlin for AWS, a suite of tools to more easily find and fix the reliability risks that cause downtime on AWS. Gremlin for AWS helps teams prevent incidents, monitor and test systems for known causes of failure, and gain visibility into the reliability posture of their applications—with 90% less effort.

Gremlin for AWS is a suite of tools to more easily find and fix the reliability risks that cause downtime on AWS. The cloud opens up a range of reliability challenges that didn’t exist before, especially for customers running distributed, mission-critical workloads. Teams experience the pain of failed migrations, frequent incidents, and reliability toil, but often struggle to modernize their approach to reliability as they modernize their infrastructure. That’s where Gremlin for AWS can help.

N-able Head Nerd Eric Harless breaks down what's in Cove Data Protection 24.6 You asked for it, and we delivered! We are happy to announce that partners now can schedule Standby Image first restores. We also automated the addition of antivirus exclusions to Microsoft Defender on the Recovery Location for One-Time Restores. Partners can now schedule first restore sessions for devices added to a Standby Image recovery plan. Now, partners can schedule initial restores overnight or on weekends to avoid resource contention when adding multiple machines to a plan.

N-able Head Nerd Eric Harless breaks down the updates in Cove Data Protection 24.5, in which we are releasing "One-time Restore to ESXi", a highly efficient free tool for mass disaster recovery of your VMware workloads. An additional benefit is that you can use it for migration from another hypervisor or cloud to ESXi.

Telemetry (Observability) pipelines play a critical role in controlling telemetry data (logs, metrics, events, and traces). However, the benefits of pipeline go well beyond log volume and cost reductions. In addition to using pipelines as pre-processors of data going to observability and SIEM systems, they can be used to support your compliance initiatives. This session will cover how enterprises can understand and optimize their data for log reduction while reducing compliance risk.

Learn how to set up an Uptime.com Real user Monitoring check. There’s more to website performance than “up/down” statuses. Use RUM to leverage the data collected from past user experiences to optimize for future ones.

Decomplexify Your Everything Chrystal Taylor and Jeff Stewart The increasing complexity of IT means new skills are always needed to keep up and stay relevant, but acquiring new skills takes time. Having the right set of tools is essential for success. In this session, we'll break down how to decomplexify and what the heck that means. It's time to consolidate what can be consolidated, break down barriers, reduce waste, and manage the madness.