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7 Essential Features You Must Look at in Maintenance Tracking Software

A maintenance manager's job can be overwhelming when assets and pieces of equipment are in abundance. It becomes more complex when the management of assets is done manually. When work is done manually assets are not provided maintenance on time impacts asset performance and chances of asset failure are increased. That is why it is important to invest in asset management or maintenance tracking software.

What is a Good API Response Time?

It's hard to imagine a world without APIs. APIs connect our mobile phones or computers to do everything from making purchases and payments to interacting on social media, extracting or sharing data or any other computer to computer interaction in our business or daily life. If you want to open up a heated debate, ask one of your programming partners or developer colleagues what makes up a good API response time?

Dashboard Fridays: Log Analytics VM Insights

Join Adam Kinniburgh in this latest Dashboard Fridays episode, in which he showcases a Log Analytics VM Insights dashboard. This dashboard, built with the WebAPI tile for the CE and SCOM editions of SquaredUp, surfaces key metric data for Virtual Machines, regardless of where the servers are hosted. In this short video, we'll demonstrate how this dashboard was built using SquaredUp dashboards, the challenges it solves, and how you can easily replicate it in your own environment.

MSP Live Chat Making Customer Success Your Competition Killer

Your customers’ expectations and demands around IT are changing. Want to learn how you can better align your work with their evolving business goals and priorities? And ensure that you don’t just win new customers, but that you win them for life? Watch our MSP Live Chat with Lifecycle Insights CEO Marnie Stockman. Not only is she an expert in MSP customer success, she literally wrote the book on it.

Pop the pain away - with Aiven (20 sec)

Don't stress! Aiven’s fully managed data solutions take the pain out of cloud infra – everything is already set up for you. Just select the services and tools you need, pick a cloud provider and your storage needs, and you’re good to go. You can deploy a cluster in under 10 minutes. We offer rock solid, reliable, open source data infra – with no hidden costs.

5 Ways To Improve Your Business Workflow

Are you looking for ways to improve your business workflow? You need to start investigating workflow automation tools. With the right tool in hand, you can eliminate administrative tasks and focus on high-value customer-facing activities. Workflow automation is a powerful way to improve team productivity and unlock the growth potential of your small business. There has never been a more important time for businesses to embrace workflow automation tools.

Azure DevOps: Fun with Observability Events and Alerts!

If you’re working with microservices in a large distributed environment, you’ve probably got your monitoring and logging on lock, and you may even be lucky enough to have properly instrumented APM (distributed tracing) for consumer calls. But, did you know you’re likely still facing an observability gap? How many incidents have you worked that required hours of sleuthing only to end with a single team needing to roll back a deployment? It’s more common than you may think!

Ask Miss O11y: Making Sense of OpenTelemetry: Who's There? The Resource.

Ah, I too have wondered about this. TL;DR: The Resource says what program is sending these spans and where it’s running. You can skip it if you define OTEL_SERVICE_NAME in the environment. When I’m setting up tracing (for instance, in a Node.js app), I have to create a Resource object in order to set up the OpenTelemetry SDK: If I don’t define that resource parameter, then tracing will still work. But my spans will show up with aservice.name of unknown_service:node.