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GrafanaCONline: How to get an organization to adopt a central telemetry solution

One of the main objections to adopting a centralized telemetry offering that we hear is that “I need this obscure feature from insert your favorite vendor.” So, how did we drive broad adoption of a centralized telemetry solution built in-house using open source software? For a large organization, it’s not just a technical challenge, but also an organizational one. In this talk, I will present the approach we took to convince the 6,000+ engineers at Bloomberg to adopt a new and growing platform. I will discuss some of our key decisions and trade-offs, as well as share the lessons we learned during our four-year journey.

Release Notes: Stakeholder Engagement, Uptime Monitoring API, Flexible Periods for Schedules, and more

Nowadays, a working digital infrastructure is the lifeblood of almost any organization. The impact of a major IT incident can go far beyond the IT department, affecting a company’s revenue or incur costs in other areas of the business caused by service disruption. Therefore, in addition to the technical response to a major incident from the IT department, business stakeholders need to be involved as well, so they can prepare the business response.

Coffee Break: Citrix Monitoring with GripMatix

You may have heard that Citrix announced EOL for multiple SCOM MPs as of June 2020. This month we are joined by Adam Kinniburgh, Lead Evangelist at SquaredUp along with Merijn Overgaauw and Marc van der Veer, Citrix specialists and Product Architects at GripMatix, for a Q&A style discussion on Citrix Monitoring.

Easy automated E2E testing & monitoring for your frontend with Vercel and Checkly

Exciting times ahead. With the Jamstack gaining momentum, the landscape around it is offering more and more tools to streamline developer workflows and free up time for actual development. A cutting edge solution in this interesting space is Vercel, formerly known as ZEIT. In this blog post we will get a taste of Vercel's capabilities by using it to deploy and preview a sample Gatsby blog - and while we're at it, we will of course take the chance to kick off some checks automatically from Checkly.

Learning from Failures: Better Crash Reporting for Better Incident Response

Crash events are one of the more serious problems that can occur when operating a service. Crashing components often cause cascading failures and service outages. To reveal the magnitude of damage and help prevent future occurrences, visibility into crash events is critical. Unfortunately, debugging crashes is one of the more complicated endeavors. The state of a crashed process is often compromised and the process can’t be trusted to collect debugging information on its own.

Key metrics for monitoring JVM performance

It has been 25 years since Java came into existence, and it is still one of the preferred platforms among enterprise applications. As technologies evolved, Java's functionality and programming flexibility also matured in parallel, positioning it as a relevant language for over two decades. New memory management systems and garbage collection algorithms are an outstanding example of this evolution.

Why Website Maintenance? The Best Practices for Peak Site Performance

If you have a website, you almost certainly want it to function at its best. In today's digital age, having a website is essential to businesses of all sizes - and it is just as important to maintain those sites. A well-maintained website is crucial for its optimal performance. If you want to grow your number of visitors, maintain search engine rankings, and improve your branding, it's always best to have a solid maintenance plan in place.

Monitoring Applications that Require Identity Management Authentication

Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems provide core directory services, application access management, and authentication and authorization services. IAM also helps developers with a base platform to provide access control to their applications based on centralized policies and rules. IAM manages user details, authentication, and access information for an organization. The responsibility of user management and authentication creates a great dependency on IAM.

NiCE Active 365 Monitor for Azure Preview Webinar

NiCE is introducing a new line of monitoring solutions for Microsoft Azure. The kick-off for the new Azure monitoring solutions will be the NiCE Active 365 Monitor for Azure, a brilliant monitoring set for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Office Platform hosted on Microsoft Azure Monitor. Get a sneak preview on how the new NiCE Active 365 Monitor will boost your efficiency in Azure performance and availability monitoring. Key Features User Experience Monitoring of Microsoft 365 Services Tenant & Directory Specific Monitoring Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive and Office Platform Monitoring Active monitoring by synthetic transactions Azure Monitor integration Active monitoring for sites, internet breakouts and user device locations Secured through the Azure platform Azure Marketplace offer Key Benefits Immediately know when your users, clients and customers are affected Save time during disruptions by root-cause analysis, including your network Understand if Microsoft and service providers meet their SLA for YOUR services Full end-to-end service monitoring