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What tool does your staff use most to communicate? If you’re like a lot of other companies, you may have recently started using Microsoft Teams. In April of 2020, Microsoft reported having 75 million users with a push of 31 million new users due to the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. At Uptrends, we think it is important that our customers can get their monitoring alerts using the communication channels they use most, so we’ve added a new Microsoft Teams integration.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve strengthened our solution for Java Spring. Spring developers can now integrate Rollbar into their Java Spring Boot and Spring Web MVC applications even more quickly and easily. With our new SDK, instrumentation and getting real-time actionable error alerts takes just a few minutes. Spring has consistently been one of the most popular Java frameworks and we want to make sure we’re consistently offering the best possible solution for it.

The 7.1 stable release builds on the major developments in Grafana 7.0. Here are some features we’re excited about in Grafana 7.1.

From smart thermostats and grocery store checkouts to public utility infrastructures and industrial manufacturing lines, the Internet of Things (IoT) is all around us—and growing larger every day. But with this rapid growth comes a number of operational challenges: IoT devices collect a large amount of data, and are often distributed across harsh, ever-changing environments.

First thing’s first: existing users will be pleased to know that upgrading is easy, so there's no need to be concerned about the upgrade process. In fact, Sensu Go 6 (arriving July 23, 2020) is a drop-in replacement for Sensu Go 5. Sensu was originally designed to be a single-tenant system, relying heavily on configuration management tools to move at the speed of automation — AKA, to keep configuration up to date to accurately reflect the state of things.

As systems become increasingly complex, we’ve seen the growth of engineering tools to abstract away and manage the complexity. But often our tools are “opinionated” and the default actions or settings may not align with how our systems are intended to work or how we think they work. Chaos Engineering is a good way to not only test your applications, but also the tools you use to build them.

Mattermost Release v5.25 is generally available today. The new Extended Support Release offers many bug fixes for increased stability (see changelog for details) as well as the following new features.

If you’re new to the Dashboards Beta app on Splunkbase and you’re trying to get started with building beautiful dashboards, the "Dashboards Beta" blog series is a great place to start. This Dashboards Beta app brings a new dashboard framework, intended to combine the best of Simple XML and Glass Tables, and provide a friendlier experience for creating and editing dashboards.

The number of cyberattacks launched on organizations continues to rise every year. More attacks means more security alerts that security analysts have to triage each day. Many security teams have turned to a security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) tool to help them automate the ever-increasing volume of security alerts, and respond to threats faster and more comprehensively.