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How to Trigger Alerts From Application Events

EventSources, the sister LogicModule to DataSources, are a useful framework for triggering event-based, contextual alerts from your applications and infrastructure. While DataSources poll your applications and infrastructure for time-series datapoints, EventSources poll (or listen) for interesting events from your log files, SNMP traps, syslogs, Windows Event Logs, and much more.

GrafanaCONline: Prometheus: what the future holds

It’s been nearly 2.5 years since Prometheus 2.0 released and 2 years since Prometheus graduated in the CNCF. You might say that clearly proves that Prometheus has become mainstream. However, that doesn’t mean Prometheus would be “done” now. The developer community is more active than ever. Let’s have a look at the highlights of the past year and at the things on the roadmap. The speaker is one of the Prometheus developers and would also be delighted to hear from you what you want to see next in Prometheus.

GrafanaCONline: Strava: the Venn diagram of observability

In the era of services architecture, reliability engineering, and container orchestration, the word “observability” is widely used but rarely clearly defined. What is “observability” really? Of the various observability concepts and tools, what are the distinctions and overlaps in various technologies?

What Current Network Hardware Trends Mean for MSPs

networks because SD-WAN is rendering them obsolete.
  • The switch market is the most fragmented because stagnant switch technology has levelled the playing field.
  • Access points have overtaken switches as the most popular network device on client sites because of growing businesses demand for wireless connectivity. How will these trends affect your MSP business in the year ahead? In this one-hour webinar, Auvik CPO Alex Hoff, channel consultant Erick Simpson, ChannelPro reporter Rich Freeman, and two MSP execs discuss what the crowded network hardware market means for MSPs and the channel.
  • Unlock Business Productivity with Outstanding Documentation

    What are the top-performing 20% of MSPs doing differently than the competition? A recent IT Glue guest post on the Auvik blog revealed that the best MSPs document and automate as much of their operational processes as possible, to free up critical work cycles from repetitive and manual tasks. Join Auvik and IT Glue for a free webinar on how MSPs can accelerate their business productivity and process efficiency when they invest in outstanding documentation.

    MSP Risks and Rewards in Cloud Tech

    Your clients want the freedom of cloud-based collaboration and productivity tools. As an MSP, you want a business-grade solution to security and data governance. Where and how do these interests intersect? Join us as we chat with Ted Hulsy, global head of channel marketing at Dropbox, about the risks of cloud services for your clients and how addressing them can be a business opportunity for your MSP.

    #ITConnections - Maintaining Service Level Agreements in a Challenging Environment

    With the workforce moving outside the usual areas of your Service Level Agreements, it can be challenging to adapt and ensure service quality. Through SLA reporting, you can monitor and manage your SLAs, setting up custom alerts before they have been breached and you could be affected by an outage.

    How to Monitor Citrix Remote PC

    Ever since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns, working from home has instantly become the primary way of work for most people. Even companies that already had functionality in place to work from home were instantly hit by scalability issues. Many of the existing solutions typically weren’t meant to be used for a 100% concurrent remote workforce.