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How Grafana is helping the DIFFERENCE Foundation visualize medical data in their fight against a global pandemic

The DIFFERENCE Foundation is a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands that is focused on designing, guiding, and funding highly quantitative research on metabolic dysfunction. The foundation considers metabolic dysfunction—which can trigger obesity, diabetes, many other diseases—the original global pandemic, as it affects almost one quarter of the global population.

Alerts to answers: guided root cause exploration for AWS apps (Snoop)

Troubleshooting incidents in a modern AWS app is challenging given the diversity of AWS services in use and the dependencies between them. This customer session will lead AWS infra/DevOps engineers and SREs through a root cause exploration methodology and best practices that will reduce time to resolution.

Auvik + ConnectWise: An Integrated Approach to Greater Network Visibility & Faster MTTR

Network management shouldn’t be an unmanageable—or unprofitable—task. Discover how Auvik integrates with ConnectWise to give you true network visibility and control, from one centralized view. It’s designed to streamline your workflows and help you close tickets faster, so you can scale your operations.

What You Can Learn From the 2020 Network Vendor Diversity Report

In our third year of producing the Network Vendor Diversity Report, we’ve learned the network hardware market is becoming more crowded and fragmented as time goes on. Nearly two-thirds of all IT service providers are managing more than five network vendors per client. Cisco still maintains its reign as the most commonly deployed vendor on today’s managed networks, but its share continues to decline as vendors like Ubiquiti chip away at its lead.

8 ideas on how to boost your team's productivity

IT teams are essential for many companies to work. And, although due to the nature of their work they have certain features, you should not forget that, after all, they are human teams, so they have similar characteristics to those of any other group. The sensible thing, then, is to remember that if you want your IT team to work to the fullest, you must be able to optimize several of the aspects involved in its performance, both the characteristics of the IT field and more general ones.

Passing the "Is it Working?" Test with Serverless Architectures Is Not Enough

Say you are an awesome developer sitting contentedly at your desk when a Slack message suddenly interrupts your peaceful mental flow: It would appear there is a data issue with the new Activity History service released last month… Or at least a couple people think there is. Now, instead of making progress on new tasks, you now need to drop those and look into what’s happening here. Sigh.

Key Takeaways from DEJ's IT Performance Management Study

It goes without saying that 2020 has been a challenging year for businesses. Faced with unexpected and unfamiliar hurdles, organizations have been under immense pressure to maintain or improve performance in all areas of their business. But this has also been a year of innovation. We’ve seen modern organizations embrace new, innovative technologies and tactics that have reshaped the way they manage IT performance.

Achieve comprehensive observability with Sensu and Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a great platform for any data lake initiative, and ideal for analyzing your monitoring and observability data. But if you’re working with a number of different monitoring and observability tools, especially across multiple cloud environments, you might find it challenging to get all your data into Elasticsearch.