IT tools are similar to romantic relationships. Over time, you tend to fall into the same old dull routines, like Rupert Holme’s song Escape (The Piña Colada Song). That routine — collect dataset, route, ingest ($$) and then search, collect dataset, route, ingest, then search, … this approach is not only breaking your heart but your budget too.

Azure File Shares is a cloud-based file sharing service that provides a secure, scalable, and highly available solution for storing and sharing files in the cloud. With Azure File Shares, you can store, share, and access files from anywhere, at any time, and from any device. Whether you’re a small business owner, a freelancer, or an enterprise-level organization, Azure File Shares can help you meet your file storage and sharing needs.

Welcome to our first monthly product newsletter of 2023, SigNal - 21! Last month, we worked closely with our users to ship some advanced features which will enable our users to take advantage of their observability data more effectively. We were also trending on the front page of hacker news and got featured as one of the fastest-growing open source startups. Let’s dive in to see what humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of January 2023.

Google Cloud, as it’s now known - it dropped the ‘Platform’ in recent months - is the number three market leader, offering hosting on the same supporting infrastructure that Google uses internally for products like Google Search and YouTube.

As we have previously announced: Notifications-only sub-users are here! After receiving your feedback, we realized that full-featured sub-users may not be the ideal option for everyone. This new feature is ideal for our UptimeRobot users who want to get alerted teammates or clients but don’t want to share access to account or monitors. You can manage your team mates and their access on the Team page. Here you can add / edit / remove seats with write, read, or notify-only access.

Honeycomb recently announced the launch of Service Map, a new feature that gives users the ability to quickly unravel and make sense of the interconnectivity between services in highly complex and intricate environments.

VIPs almost never open tickets, but you’ll know when they’ve got a problem with Microsoft Teams. Even when the rest of your team logs tickets for troubleshooting Teams issues there’s a good chance they won’t give you enough information about the problem – particularly if its hardware related. These are traditional challenges for IT departments trying to maintain Teams services. Luckily, we have the solution.

Having your systems monitored by a reliable solution is important, but how do you ensure that the right people are informed about issues that arise? Identifying problems is the first step, but they also need to be routed to the appropriate individuals. Keep in mind that employees may not always be sitting in front of the dashboard. This means being available outside of normal working hours to quickly respond to emergencies and problems, including not only weeknights but also weekends and holidays.

While innumerable companies suffered due to the outage, it was business as usual for Nexthink Customers. On January 25th, 2023, millions of unsuspecting employees across the globe were met with an unexpected roadblock during a regular work day. Microsoft Teams, used by over 280 million users worldwide for video meetings, messaging, and collaboration, was officially declared down.