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We Believe that Nexthink is the #1 Vendor in DEX. Whichever Way You Look at It.

This headline is maybe a little surprising, even for Nexthinkers. We’re known for being conservative and letting our work do the talking. At Nexthink, we first created the DEX category, then rolled out the world’s most capable and holistic DEX platform, and then delivered year on year as the most successful DEX vendor in the market. Something to do with our Swiss heritage perhaps – an emphasis on diligence and execution, rather than on singing our own praises.

Zero-instrumentation observability based on eBPF

Zero-Instrumentation Observability with eBPF Are you struggling to achieve comprehensive system observability without the burden of instrumentation? Join Peter Zaitsev for a webinar that will revolutionize your approach. Discover how eBPF, a powerful technology, can provide zero-instrumentation observability, allowing you to: Coroot is an open source observability platform that helps engineers fix service outages and even prevent them. It continuously audits telemetry data to highlight issues and weak spots in your services. Quick setup, no code required.

MSP Networking: Definitions, Insights and Strategies

Staying on top of client networks is no walk in the park for MSPs these days. With the growing reliance on cloud apps, distributed workforces, and constant technology changes, network environments have become exponentially more complex. Without rock-solid network management practices, disruptions and plummeting productivity become inevitable for clients. This makes it more crucial than ever for MSPs to level up their networking game.

What is an MSP? A Beginner's Guide to Outsourced IT

Picture a calm Tuesday morning at the office. You login to your desktop, ready to tackle the week, when suddenly the screen goes blank. The IT systems are down—your heartbeat just skipped a beat. Now picture an alternate scenario where before you even realize there’s a problem, it’s already being solved. This isn’t just wishful thinking—it’s the reality for businesses that partner with a Managed Service Provider (MSP).

Key learnings from the State of Cloud Costs study

We recently released our initial State of Cloud Costs report, which identified factors shaping the costs of hundreds of organizations that use Datadog Cloud Cost Management to monitor their AWS spend. The report reveals several widely applicable themes, including the ways in which resource utilization, adoption of emerging technologies, and participation in commitment-based discount programs all shape cloud environments and costs.

Attach Screenshots to Your Playwright Test Reports

Today I want to show you how you can attach your screenshots directly to Playwright's test reports. Imagine you have a simple Playwright test that navigates to Checkly. You take a screenshot and store it in screenshots/home.png. Then, you click a link in the main navigation, expect a specific heading to be visible, and take another screenshot. When you run this test using npx playwright test, the test passes, and you find the screenshots in the /screenshots directory.

Deliver Peak Microsoft Teams Performance at Scale

Scale is a perennial challenge for most IT teams. While organizations expect the same performance and experience whether 500 users are accessing essential applications or 50,000, IT headcount rarely increases in proportion with organizational growth. This often leaves IT departments overtaxed and pressed to triage the most urgent concerns. But even that requires good data to inform decisions — which can be in short supply.

Better root cause analysis: Mastering alert insights with the new central history timeline

A year ago we rebuilt our alert rule state history, using Grafana Loki for storage and updating the UI to display a timeline of all state changes of an alert rule. As a result, users can now conduct better root cause analysis by going down to the level of an alert rule and seeing when certain alert instances started or stopped firing. But we aren’t stopping there. To ensure system stability and avert outages, you also need one place to see the state history for all the alerts in your system.

New Relic vs Grafana - 2024 Comparison

New Relic and Grafana are leading tools in monitoring and observability, each with distinct use cases. New Relic excels in Application Performance Monitoring (APM), providing detailed insights for application performance. In contrast, Grafana is designed for data visualization and monitoring, allowing users to create customizable dashboards for metrics and logs. This article provides a clear comparison of their features, including application performance monitoring, log management, and dashboards.