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Simpler Navigation in AppSignal: A Story About Refactoring Design

AppSignal users will immediately notice that we’ve updated our product navigation. The new navigation is simpler, cleaner, and improves usability for (power) users. Let’s dive into these changes, along with some background on our philosophy of designing for developers.

The Essential Components of Digital Transformation

The digital revolution forced every organization to reinvent itself, or at least rethink how it goes about doing business. Most large companies have invested substantial cash in what is generally labelled “digital transformation.” While those investments are projected to top $6.8 trillion by 2023, they’re often made without seeing clear benefits or ROI.

NiCE VMware Management Pack 5.4 released

The NiCE VMware Management Pack 5.4 is an enterprise-ready Microsoft SCOM add-on for advanced VMware vSphere and ESXi monitoring. It supports the VMware administrator in centralized vSphere and ESXi health and performance monitoring to improve user experience and business results. The new NiCE VMware Management Pack 5.4 comes with new features, such as extensive vSAN monitoring options, vCenter Service monitoring, Snapshot management, Datastore Provision monitoring, as well as Certificate tracking.

WFA: Visible - Microsoft Office Dashboard

The Microsoft Office Dashboard helps you to analyze usage trends and track adoption across your organization. It also allows you to speed up problem resolution by isolating application performance problems to the user’s device, the network, or the SaaS vendor’s back-end. You’ll be able to measure any performance variations when Microsoft makes app and infrastructure changes too. This provides some much-needed help to reduce finger-pointing! #TeneoGrp

Sensu Go 6.5: Sensu Plus, High-performance Handlers, and Pipeline Resources

Sensu Go 6.5 is another feature-packed release and our first integration with the Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform. In this post, we’ll review the new features that make Sensu Go 6.5 such a banner release, and give you a sneak peek of what we have planned for future Sensu Go releases.

Digital Wellbeing and the Overlapping Roles of HR and IT

Who oversees employee digital wellbeing? Nexthink’s Meg Donovan (Chief People Officer) and Tim Flower (Global Director of Business Transformation) recently sat down to answer this question on the minds of so many business leaders. Of course, Human Resources departments have traditionally shouldered the responsibility of managing employee wellbeing. But a recent Nexthink survey reveals that unreliable IT services and equipment is the third biggest contributor to employee turnover and burnout.

Cloud Elasticity: What Happens When You Lose Control

In an on-premises environment, you have to pay for the capacity you have regardless of whether you’re using it, and you can’t exceed that capacity without purchasing and provisioning new hardware. In the cloud, however, you have much more flexibility thanks to cloud elasticity, which is the ability to automatically provision or deprovision resources based on workload changes.

OpenTelemetry Browser Instrumentation

One of the most common questions we get at Honeycomb is “What insights can you get in the browser?” Browser-based code has become orders of magnitude more complex than it used to be. There are many different patterns, and, with the rise of Single Page App frameworks, a lot of the code that is traditionally done in a backend or middle layer is now being pushed up to the browser. Instead, the questions should be: What insights do frontend engineers want?