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Dashboard Fridays: Sample PagerDuty Alerting dashboard

Adam Kinniburgh is back with another Dashboard Fridays episode, this time joined by Ashley Thompson as they showcase this example PagerDuty Alerting dashboard. This dashboard gives an overview of alerting sent to PagerDuty from any source, even external sources like Pingdom.

Tiggee LLC Announces Acquisition of PerfOps Data Suite

Tiggee LLC, parent company of DNS Made Easy and Constellix has announced the acquisition of PerfOps and its enterprise data monitoring suite. Adding PerfOps to the Tiggee family enhances the company's position in the DNS and Cloud industry and will allow Tiggee to leverage its direct knowledge and 20-plus years of experience to increase the effectiveness and value of PerfOps for the industry as a whole.

New Full Page Check upgrades support end user demand for richer features

Software upgrades are typically about offering new upgrades and improvements that enhance the end user experience, offer greater efficiency, and provide a more feature-rich product. These are also some of the reasons why Uptrends has released a new version of the Full Page Check monitor, which offers lots of benefits over the previous version. The demand for more metrics has grown over time not only for how the elements load but also how the page is presented to the end users.

State of IT Management Survey Report 2020-21

As we continue to adapt following the pandemic, which has impact us all both personally and professionally, we take this moment to commemorate the IT veterans we've lost to the pandemic. With the pandemic drastically changing the way we do business, we have conducted a study to understand the state of IT management at the height of these radical changes and analyzed how to offer a holistic approach to changing IT management needs to prepare for the post-pandemic IT world.

7 Trends in Database DevOps & Monitoring - Download the infographic

Earlier this year, we surveyed over 5,700 global IT professionals and asked them what the most pressing challenges they faced in Database DevOps and Monitoring are. We also asked specific questions to gauge what trends we could spot in the industry and compared the responses to the last 3-5 years of data we have.

Introducing Adaptive Alerts: Detect application-level error trends

Adaptive Alerts is a new feature from Rollbar that adds to our reliable, informative and actionable alerts about unexpected issues in monitored applications and services. Adaptive Alerts uses anomaly detection to learn the standard behavior of enterprise applications, and alerts developers about atypical exception rates, reducing unwanted noise.

How to Monitor Cloud Services and Why It Matters

In this webinar, we explain how—and why—tools like traceroute, when used as part of synthetic monitoring, provide deep insight into network problems such as SaaS or cloud application slowdowns. Presented by Michael Patterson, Kentik network technologist, founder and former CEO of Plixer Watch this on-demand webinar to learn.

An Introduction to Log Analysis

If you think log files are only necessary for satisfying audit and compliance requirements, or to help software engineers debug issues during development, you’re certainly not alone. Although log files may not sound like the most engaging or valuable assets, for many organizations, they are an untapped reservoir of insights that can offer significant benefits to your business.

Plugin Spotlight: Exec & Execd

Telegraf comes included with over 200+ input plugins that collect metrics and events from a comprehensive list of sources. While these plugins cover a large number of use cases, Telegraf provides another mechanism to give users the power to meet nearly any use case: the Exec and Execd input plugins. These plugins allow users to collect metrics and events from custom commands and sources determined by the user.