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Changes to Grafana plugins in Grafana 10 with David Harris (Grafana Office Hours #03)

Grafana 10 is fresh off the presses, and it includes some important changes to Grafana plugins that any plugin developer or user will want to know. Senior Product Manager David Harris chats to Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven about all the new features available to plugins (including the new Scenes framework) and some breaking changes to legacy plugins.

Webinar Recap: The Single Pane of Glass Myth

The observability landscape is constantly changing and evolving. Despite this, one question often plagues operations leaders: "How can we consolidate disparate data sources and tools to view system performance comprehensively?" These leaders have sought the answer in a single-pane-of-glass solution. However, as Jason Bloomberg and Buddy Brewer discussed in the Mezmo webinar "Solving the Single Pane of Glass Myth," this idea is more myth than reality.

Streamline monitoring for remote teams: 4 ways the SCOM Connector for Microsoft Teams can help

Streamline monitoring for remote teams 4 ways the SCOM Connector for Microsoft Teams can help The shift to remote or hybrid working has brought new benefits, but also new challenges, to IT departments. It is now more important than ever to find the right tools in order to facilitate collaboration, communication, and mutual understanding between team members.

Monitoring Android Data with MetricFire

Understanding the performance of Android applications, user interactions, and problem-solving is significantly reliant on data monitoring. As the realm of mobile technology continues to expand, developers are tasked with managing an increasingly large amount of data. When this data is correctly harvested and scrutinized, it can yield valuable insights that inform strategic choices and lead to improvements in the app.

Empowering Observability Engineers: Using Mezmo to Overcome Critical Challenges

The dynamic nature of the IT landscape poses complex challenges for organizations, necessitating the involvement of observability engineers. These skilled professionals have become indispensable in addressing critical pain points and optimizing system performance. In this blog post, we delve into the challenges observability engineers face and showcase how Mezmo's comprehensive telemetry solution empowers them to overcome these hurdles and achieve optimal results. ‍

Are you Ready For Microsoft Teams Premium?

Microsoft Teams Premium is here, with many of its new features now live and already adding benefits to businesses everywhere. Is it something you’re thinking about investing in? If it is, here’s the lowdown on some of the key additions and what they really mean for your organization.

Netdata Parents (Streaming and Replication)

A “Parent” is a Netdata Agent, like the ones we install on all our systems, but is configured as a central node that receives, stores and processes metrics data from other Netdata “Child” nodes in our infrastructure. Netdata Parents are flexible. You can have one big active-active cluster of Netdata Parents, or you can spread a lot of independent Parents across the infrastructure. This “distributed still centralized” setup provides a lot of benefits.

How Ultimate improved workflow, adoption, and more with Grafana IRM

“So you get paged and wake up in the middle of the night, you don’t know what’s going on, and there you are needing to figure things out — What kind of tabs do I need open? Where do I find the logs? Where are the dashboards and the metrics?” If you’ve ever been on call, this refrain, voiced by Alexander Rösel, Senior Software Engineer at Ultimate, will sound all too familiar.