Gathering data to explore a problem with power outages creating connectivity issues and ultimately draining a laptop battery. Monitoring locations that have intermittent power and/or connectivity outages can be challenging. In this article, I’ll show how to use InfluxDB, an open source time series database, InfluxDB Cloud and Edge Data Replication to store data locally and send it to a central location whenever possible.

We are delighted to announce the general availability of Dedicated Generation 3 - the latest evolution of our Dedicated offering. We rewrote it from scratch with the objective of making the Dedicated experience as incredible as on the Grid, while providing the same strong guarantees regarding uptime, compliance, and SLAs. And, not to humblebrag, but we succeeded!

Python has staked its claim as the most popular programming language among developers worldwide. Accessible via Windows, Linux, and Mac, it’s intuitive and easy to read, and its use of maths lends itself perfectly to Python for finance and data analysis.

Centralized log management provides various benefits across an organization. The fundamentals of log management offer a wide variety of business use cases. Whether you’re managing event log data manually or realizing you need more than an Open Source solution, finding the right internal champions can make your life easier. Understanding the business use cases and strategic impact centralized log management provides can help you gain the internal buy-in you need.

As the tech industry goes green, how does your network stack up – and how can you make it greener?

Having returned from our N-able Empower event in Las Vegas about a month ago from writing this, I was surprised at just how many attendees felt like they were not doing enough to automate their IT processes. I spoke to several IT leaders, business owners, presidents, and other executives and all of them were looking to do more with automation—many were even still trying to get to grips with the concept from a business perspective and start out on their automation journey.

Over the past twenty years I have been working in tech, I have seen a variety of products and solutions come and go. For many, it is because they overly complicate something that should’ve been simple. With SolarWinds, I am thrilled to work with solutions designed from the start to be simple for our customers to use. We focus on providing solutions built to integrate with other elements of your network and complement them, so they become more effective.

A friend of mine asked me how we build and publish our Visual Studio extension. His initial thought was that the process is manual and since the code is in a private repository, here's a quick walkthrough of building and publishing Visual Studio extensions with GitHub Actions.

As a developer, how can you increase your velocity to ship, and how can you test what you are about to ship in a production-like environment to avoid bad surprises in production?

Until recently, Grafana Cloud users had to rely on API keys to read and write data to and from the composable observability platform. These API keys had minimal features, which limited administrators’ ability to manage account access on a granular level. We’re keenly aware of these shortcomings, and we’ve been working to overhaul and replace these API keys with something more flexible, more reliable, and more secure.