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Grafana k6 Studio is Now Generally Available! | Demo | Grafana Labs | Performance Testing
Watch a deep-dive demo of Grafana k6 Studio, an open source desktop application that helps you create k6 test scripts quickly and easily via a visual interface.
How to use text box variables in Grafana dashboards
Text box variables let users type whatever they want -- great for text filtering and searching! In this video we'll look at how to use text box variables in Grafana dashboards. 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.
Apache Kafka Tiered Storage in Depth: How Writes and Metadata Flow
The idea behind KIP-405 is to simply store most of the cluster’s data in another service. As we covered in detail in the last article - it’s a simple-sounding idea that goes a very long way. This other server where the data gets stored is pluggable. KIP-405 was designed in such a way to make Kafka seamlessly extensible to store its data in any kind of external store through a solid interface.
2025 OneDrive Licensing Changes
Microsoft recently announced significant changes to its OneDrive licensing and storage policies, affecting organizations that heavily rely on cloud storage solutions. Starting January 27, 2025, unlicensed OneDrive accounts—those without assigned user licenses—will be automatically archived after 93 days, rendering them inaccessible unless covered by retention policies or legal holds.
Using Azure Blob Storage for InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise
InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise introduce a powerful new diskless architecture that lets you store your time series data in cloud object storage while running the database engine locally. This approach offers significant advantages: you get the performance of a local database combined with the durability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of cloud storage. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up InfluxDB 3 Core or Enterprise with Azure Blob Storage as your object store.
Help Desk Metrics: Boring but Necessary
Learn how to choose, analyze, and track key help desk metrics to improve efficiency, service quality, and customer satisfaction.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Choose an ERP System for Construction
In today's competitive construction industry, business owners and managers are faced with a ton of challenges, ranging from managing project scope to delivering projects on time and within budget. Effective resource allocation, maintaining control over finances, and improving coordination among teams hold the key to success. A very effective tool that has been helping companies in leveling their processes and minimizing gaps in productivity is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
Future-Proof Your Oracle Monitoring with NiCE Oracle Management Pack 5.4
As IT complexity rises and hybrid cloud adoptions accelerate, organizations need trusted, future-ready Oracle monitoring without the overhead.
Best Logging Practices: 14 Do's and Don'ts for Better Logging
Ever found yourself drowning in a sea of log data, struggling to make sense of the overwhelming noise? Or perhaps faced a major system breakdown, only to find that your logs didn’t provide the answers you needed, leaving you in the dark? Effective logging is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of software development and operations, highlighting why logging is important – it’s the foundation upon which observability, troubleshooting, and system maintenance are built.