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Dave MacKinnon, N-able Chief Security Officer is our guest today with an impressive career journey to share. From the early days of horsing around with a Commodore 64 to becoming a major cybersecurity player, Dave's story is a perfect blend of nostalgia and cutting-edge tech.

Did you know you could do agentless monitoring for Prometheus in Grafana Cloud? Senior Software Engineer Matt Nolf talks about the new Metrics Endpoint integration and how you can use it to collect Prometheus metrics from publicly addressable hosts-- WITHOUT using Grafana Agent. He is joined by Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh.

Nica and Ankit discuss the benefits of a Kafka queue for your OTLP data.

What do you get once you have EventSentry deployed on your network? This video flies through most EventSentry features for a birds-eye view of EventSentry's reporting capabilities.

Starting with version 3.0, InfluxDB utilizes two data storage tiers – a hot tier for recent and frequently queried data, and a cold tier for historical data. This approach to cold storage can reduce costs and much more.

A short demo video on how to add After Hours Alerting with SIGNL4 to your ConnectWise PSA. We show you the complete workflow and what to keep in mind for seamless connectivity and targeted mobile alerting including duty scheduling for your teams.

Almost every organization around will eventually face an important crossroad: should I build the tooling I need, or buy it? But more often that not, the decision to buy is the most sensible one that'll save you the most time, effort, and even money. But there are some edge cases where building can be the right choice. In this chat with Isaac, product engineer at incident.io, we dive into this nuanced debate and explain why buying is your best bet...most of the time.

Should you use DORA for measuring developers? Beware! It could lead to unhealthy behaviors that harm the team and organization. DORA metrics are meant to assess application or service-level health and stability, which cross-functional teams, not individual developers, are responsible for. Give Sleuth a try and see how we give teams actionable insights on how to improve, no-code automations to instantly ship improvements, and metrics to measure their impact — all in a way that both managers and developers love.

Enterprises face many challenges when FinOps programs turn to infrastructure optimization to find cloud savings. Cloud catalog complexity, reluctant engineers or even having the staff and time to make the many changes required can all slow down or impede progress and savings. In this 20-min session we will cover the 6 things leading large scale cloud users have learned are critical to cloud optimization programs.

Please join us as Bhargavi reviews Sumo Logic's query best practices and advanced operators!