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Synthetics 8.4.0 - Elastic Observability

Elastic 8.4.0 was released in August. In this video we cover what's new in 8.4.0 Observability, and go through demos of the newest features in monitor management, data retention, and the public beta. Join Synthetics Tech Lead Andrew Cholakian, and Synthetics Engineer Justin Kambic for the latest in Elastic Synthetics.

Intro to Grafana Incident

In this video, you’ll learn how Grafana Incident offers a complete incident management process out of the box in Grafana Cloud, so you can save time and focus on what’s important when things go wrong. Grafana Incident is available to all free and paid Grafana Cloud users. If you’re not already using Grafana Cloud — the easiest way to get started with observability — sign up now for a free 14-day trial of Grafana Cloud Pro, with unlimited metrics, logs, traces, and users, long-term retention, and premium team collaboration features.

Cloud purchasing strategy KPIs: RIs, SPs, Spot, CUDs

One of the key advantages of cloud services versus on premise deployments is the wide range of purchasing options and pricing models. While it’s an attractive advantage, it can be complicated for organizations to determine the best blend of service pricing models. The ability to define the organization’s blend of purchasing strategies and display the target versus actual performance is critical for optimizing cloud cost management efforts.

The Who, What and Where of Microsoft Teams Call Quality

Microsoft Teams is the world-leading collaboration and productivity tool for today’s hybrid workforce, but your users’ experience with it is only as good as the network and IT environment it operates in. There is a critical visibility gap when it comes to delivering a stellar Microsoft Teams user experience to your users. Organizations lack an end-to-end picture of what problems are happening, what is causing the problems and who is affected.

Why Website Uptime Monitoring Is Crucial For Preventing Downtime

Website uptime monitoring is crucial for any business that depends on its website. But for companies whose whole service is online, it is essential. If your site isn't reliably serving users when they need it, your competitors are just a Google search away. So you can't just check your site is running now and then - you need a tool to check it as frequently as possible.

Scaling Syslog: The Challenge That Never Goes Away

At this point, you already know how powerful syslog is (and if you don’t, check out “Introduction to Syslog”). But here’s the thing: Scaling your systems to consume high volume syslog is like fighting zombies. Weird unexpected behavior and no easy solutions. Before you fight zombies, though, you have to understand them. So, here are the challenges for scaling syslog one by one.

New capabilities: Sumo Logic expands Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Monitoring the digital experience of users is a must-have these days. Ensuring the end clients are satisfied is difficult though. People are not keen to provide feedback; they just change the vendor without explanation. It is, therefore, crucial to build enough observability into a front-end application (a web page or a mobile UI) so it can tell the story of how well the user perceived the interaction within the application.