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Visualize Google Sheets data: how to turn your spreadsheets into Grafana dashboards

In 2020, we launched the Google Sheets data source for Grafana, providing organizations with real-time data visualization capabilities for all their go-to spreadsheets. Since then, thousands of users have installed the data source to quickly and easily derive insights from their spreadsheet data. In this blog post, we’ll explore key features of the Google Sheets data source, as well as some helpful resources to install and start using the data source today.

6 Reasons Why Digital Transformations Fail

According to McKinsey research, 70% of digital transformation projects fail to meet the stated goals. Depending on the reasons for launching a digital transformation project, this failure can lead to loss of productivity, security, profitability, or any other number of costly outcomes. In today’s competitive landscape, businesses cannot afford this failure – and yet it continues. Why?

This Month in Datadog: Conversations with two Datadog leaders, a sneak peek of DASH 2025, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. This month, we’re joined by Datadog CPO Yanbing Li and SVP of Engineering David Mitchell..

Proactive Protection Beyond the Endpoint

The IT landscape for delivering applications and other services to end users has shifted to a hybrid deployment model, and this change is here to stay. While it provides myriad benefits for IT teams and their organizations, it also complicates the cybersecurity landscape, which needs protecting. Attackers continuously find new techniques to bypass traditional security measures.

3 Neat Tricks and New Patterns Used in Cycle - from Cycle's Customer Success Team

In the last few months I've had the privilege to implement and witness new and exciting Cycle platform workflows emerging. Some of these come from the evolution of our own internal work, while others I've learned from our users. Reflecting on this, I thought it would be beneficial to the community to share! In this article, I'll walk through a handful of the neatest patterns we've seen in action. So I hope you'll join me for a no fluff, real, and practical look at how to get more out of Cycle.

MetricFire's CLI Tool: Easy Monitoring & Automation!

Looking for a powerful way to send and visualise metrics from the command line? Meet HG CLI, MetricFire’s official command-line tool! In this video, we’ll show you how to install, configure, and use HG CLI to manage your Hosted Graphite metrics and create dashboards, all without having to configure an agent yourself. Whether you're a DevOps engineer, SRE, or developer, this tool will streamline your monitoring workflows! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell for more MetricFire insights!

Introducing TCP Monitoring - A More Reliable Way to Monitor Your Entire Network

Network operations teams are under constant pressure to ensure optimal performance and availability. But in today's complex network environments, gaining a clear picture of what's happening is difficult. Without a reliable method of collecting performance metrics across your most critical connections, identifying the root cause of slowdowns or outages becomes a frustrating and time-consuming process.