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How to Install a PowerPoint Plugin for Charts in Under 5 Minutes

How to Install a PowerPoint Plugin for Charts in Under 5 Minutes

Apr 2, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Creating clean, compelling visuals doesn't have to take hours. If you're tired of fiddling with default PowerPoint tools, a plugin can help you produce stunning graphics in minutes. In fact, you can install one in under five minutes and start transforming your data into presentations that wow your audience. Whether you're presenting to your boss, your teacher, or your classmates, it helps to transform ordinary slides into something much more impressive. In this guide, we'll show you step-by-step how to do that quickly and easily.
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Kubernetes Monitoring: One view for observing all your storage volumes

Apr 1, 2025 By Stephen Lang In Grafana
If you want to observe your entire Kubernetes environment, you need visibility into all of your resources, including storage volumes. But monitoring Kubernetes storage hasn’t always been easy, especially if you wanted to see how it related to other parts of your infrastructure.
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Getting started with InfluxDB dashboards

Apr 1, 2025 By Dan Watts In Squared Up
InfluxDB is a powerful open-source time-series database widely used for monitoring system performance, IoT metrics, and application telemetry. With SquaredUp's InfluxDB plugin, you can effortlessly visualize and monitor your InfluxDB data, gaining real-time insights into your metrics alongside your other tools and services. This guide will walk you through connecting InfluxDB with SquaredUp, creating dashboards, setting up monitoring, and sharing your visualizations.
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How to prevent performance bottlenecks in Google Compute Engine: CPU spikes, RAM waste, and network overload

Mar 31, 2025 By Vasil Kaftandzhiev In Grafana
Cloud computing is all about efficiency. You need to get the most out of your resources without overspending or causing performance issues. For example, if you’re running virtual machines in Google Compute Engine, you need to size your instances correctly, optimize your workloads, and monitor your network traffic to prevent unexpected failures. However, when resources aren’t properly managed, things can quickly spiral out of control.
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How to use data source variables in Grafana dashboards

Mar 27, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Data source variables let you change where Grafana looks for data without having to create duplicate dashboards. So for example, if you have multiple different Prometheus databases, you can have one dashboard and use a data source variable to choose which Prometheus that dashboard uses. We'll look at how to set these up in this video. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
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Meet Ted Young, OpenTelemetry co-founder and the newest Grafanista

Mar 27, 2025 By Trevor Jones In Grafana
In just a few short years, OpenTelemetry has become the second largest CNCF project behind Kubernetes and is well on its way to becoming an industry standard for collecting and exporting telemetry data. And with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 just around the corner, there’s no one better to talk to about the state of OpenTelemetry than Ted Young. Ted is the co-founder of OpenTelemetry and serves on the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee.
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License to observe: Why observability solutions need agents

Mar 27, 2025 By Dominik Süß In Grafana
Note: The original version of this blog post published on ;login: on February 24, 2025. When architecting the flow of observability data such as logs, metrics, traces or profiles, you’ve likely noticed that most solutions ask you to deploy an agent or collector. Understandably, you might be hesitant to deploy yet another application just so you can get your data into your storage system of choice.
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An aerial view of your Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins pipeline landscape

Mar 27, 2025 By John Hayes In Squared Up
Most engineering teams today have a multiplicity of tools to meet all of the different challenges they face. Some people characterize this as a problem and describe it as 'tool sprawl'. At SquaredUp, we just see it as a fact of life that no tool can excel at every job and engineers will want to choose the best tool for each task. Many companies have multiple toolchains spread across different teams and departments.
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