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At SquaredUp, we have been debating how the senior leadership team can monitor the ‘health’ of our engineering teams. To do this, we decided to create a dashboard that could represent this for a team – but first, we needed to figure out what to measure. Our goal was to better understand our teams to inform which actions to take to support them and make them a happier and more productive bunch.

In today's interconnected world, the reliability of network infrastructure, especially Cisco Catalyst switches, plays a key role for businesses. To ensure these critical components perform optimally, it's vital to monitor their metrics effectively. This article will show you how to effortlessly monitor Cisco Catalyst metrics with Grafana, a top-tier monitoring and visualization platform.

My last thoughts on this blog were published some two and a half years ago, and the topic of RISE with SAP and where it best fits has evolved over time. By now, SAP RISE is familiar to the SAP marketplace and has become more understood and recognized – though how SAP markets the solution leaves some subtle and important details unclear.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list out ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re examining four use cases for AI in the ever-growing FinTech sector. The FinTech sector has transformed the discussion around the financial services industry from top to bottom.

Grafana is an open-source web application for visualizing data. You can query your data, create visuals, and receive alerts to better understand what you have. Some people think of Grafana as a Kubernetes-only tool, but in reality, it’s simply a data visualization tool that became popular within the Kubernetes ecosystem, especially when combined with Prometheus. In this post, I’ll focus on a very specific part of Grafana: the dashboards.

In the world of IT support, where time is always ticking and employee satisfaction is on the line, removing inefficiencies in ticket resolution can be nothing short of a game-changer. One major source of inefficiency in nearly every service desk operation relates to the process of obtaining and confirming information about users and devices. Comprehensive and unified information about a device and/or a user typically isn’t immediately available, and gathering it is a major burden.

Is your network management solution still up to the task? With remote work, cloud adoption, IoT, and more pushing networks to evolve rapidly, reliance on an outdated system risks performance issues, security gaps, insufficient visibility, and increased downtime. But when is it time to upgrade or replace your existing platform?

Proactive network monitoring is no less than a superpower. Just like how the Spidey sense alerted Spiderman of any dangers, proactive network monitoring also helps you to: This is why every business big or small is investing in proactive monitoring to optimize their systems and resolve security issues in real-time. In this blog, we will share some of the key benefits of proactive network monitoring along with the top challenges and best practices that can help your business in the long run.

Parsers make it easier to dig deep into your data to get every byte of useful information you need to support the business. They tell Graylog how to decode the log messages that come in from a source, which is anything in your infrastructure that generates log messages (e.g., a router, switch, web firewall, security device, Linux server, windows server, an application, telephone system and so on).