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The Virtual Experience: 3 Future-Facing VDI Use Cases

In today’s world of flexible work, technology has to be one thing above all else: versatile. A decade ago, virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) wouldn’t have been able to meet this moment – VDI used to be too narrow and restricted in terms of what use cases it could service. Fortunately, VDI has evolved dramatically since those days. Now, with the right resources, there’s very little you can’t accomplish through virtual desktops.

Introducing New Storage Dashboards in the Cloud Monitoring Console (CMC)

Monitoring and gaining additional insights about usage of your Splunk Cloud Platform deployment is essential for effective management as a Splunk admin. Your Splunk Cloud comes with the Cloud Monitoring Console (CMC) app, which displays relevant information about the status of your Splunk Cloud environment using pre-built dashboards.

Dashboard Fridays: Log Analytics VM Updates

Join Adam Kinniburgh in this latest Dashboard Fridays episode, in which he showcases this VM Updates dashboard, built with the WebAPI tile for the CE and SCOM editions. Since there is a native connection to the Log Analytics workspace in the Azure edition, here it is created using the native Logs tile. This dashboard surfaces key metric data for Virtual Machines, regardless of where the servers are hosted.

We think Grafana Labs has built something special - and two prestigious lists agree

We have always thought of our organization as special. Our plans were never to build a traditional business, and we know we have a unique culture. But it is nice when others outside of our company recognize that Grafana Labs is something special, too. This week, we were excited to be included on two very prestigious lists: The Enterprise Tech 30 and America’s Best Startup Employers.

Optimize your signal with Rollbar

Learn some helpful tips on reducing noise and improving the value of your Rollbar events. In this session, we will be discussing the different ways to improve your signal in a dual manner. First, we'll review the ways to improve and modify your item grouping, and then we'll discuss how to reduce noise inside your stack traces and boost the value of your individual events by enhancing their content.

Jitter vs Latency - What are the Differences and Why Those Things Matter

The jitter and latency are the characteristics related to the flow in the application layer. Jitter and latency are the metrics used to assess the network's performance. The major distinction between jitter and latency is that latency is defined as a delay via the network, whereas jitter is defined as a change in the amount of latency. Increases in jitter and latency have a negative impact on network performance, therefore it's critical to monitor them regularly.