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Exoprise
We help you find and fix issues with your cloud apps fast. Exoprise is the leading solution provider for monitoring SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce.com and more.
Sematext
Monitoring, log management, transaction tracing, and real user monitoring. Finally together!
NiCE IT Mgmt
From databases to servers, communication systems, operating systems and custom applications, NiCE provides the right application monitoring solutions and services.
Monitive
Monitive is an uptime monitoring service, where users sign up and input their website address, which we check every minute, from a random location around the world, and instantly notify them when their site is down.
EventSentry
EventSentry is an award-winning Hybrid SIEM which features real-time log, system health and network monitoring to proactively monitor networks and preemptively respond to threats.
ManageEngine
ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 90+ products and free tools cover everything your IT needs, at prices you can afford.
Raygun
Raygun is a Software Intelligence Platform that gives companies visibility into software problems. Errors, crashes and slow loading pages and scripts affecting end users are automatically detected, enabling teams to build excellent user experiences.
5 easy tips for maintaining a knowledge base in your IT organization | ITIL knowledge management
A knowledge base enables end-users to resolve L1 issues, search for department-specific processes in the organization, and understand how services or products work. Learn how your organization can build and maintain a robust knowledge base using ServiceDesk Plus.
Dashboard Fridays: Sample Google Kubernetes Engine Dashboard
This SquaredUp dashboard shows key metrics from any GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) clusters and node groups, including utilization of resources and health status. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.
Dashboard Fridays: Sample Grafana Dashboard
This SquaredUp Grafana dashboard surfaces status information from Grafana, giving you a big picture overview across teams and apps – all while allowing you to utilize your existing dashboards and alert rules. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.
Dashboard Fridays: Sample Google Compute Engine Dashboard
This Google Compute Engine dashboard shows key metrics about any GCE instances, managed instance groups, and related resources such as GCE disks. These metrics include utilization of resources and health status. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.
Dashboard Fridays: Sample Azure Application Insights Dashboard
This SquaredUp dashboard uses the Azure plugin to surface key performance metrics from Application Insights. Common user experience metrics are all provided out of the box, and we can query, summarize, and analyse the raw logs and traces. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.
Red Hat Uses InfluxDB to Collect gNMI Data for Internal Network Monitoring
Red Hat is a global leader for open source enterprise IT solutions with a portfolio of products that includes hybrid cloud infrastructure, middleware, cloud-native applications, and automation solutions.
How to set up Heartbeat Alerts within Sematext
Monitoring is an essential part of any IT infrastructure, as it allows you to keep track of the performance and health of your systems. However, simply monitoring your systems is not enough - you need to be alerted when something goes wrong so that you can take action to fix the issue. With Sematext, we automatically set up heartbeat alerts for many of our integrations. However, you can always customize your alerts to suit your needs. You can choose to receive these alerts via email, SMS, or even through a chat tool like Slack.
2022 Year in Review
Life at a startup often feels like a 100-meter sprint, head down, and focused until you cross the finish line. Only then do you really know what you have achieved. While a startup's work is never finished, every year we take a pause to reflect on what we have achieved over the past twelve months. And boy, was 2022 a good one!
4 Common Obstacles To Managing Microsoft Azure Costs (And How To Overcome Them)
Microsoft Azure was a relative latecomer to the public cloud market: AWS preempted everyone in 2006, and Google GCP came next, in 2008. By the time Azure launched in 2010, the public cloud market had already grown to more than $24 billion. Despite being third to the party, Azure had a key advantage: The Microsoft Office Suite was (and is) a go-to choice for corporate collaboration.
Optimizing the AWS CloudWatch Log Process
Amazon’s native monitoring and management service AWS CloudWatch is great for basic monitoring and alerts. However, on its own, it may not be the best solution for analyzing log data at scale — especially if you need to analyze data outside of AWS. Many teams may find themselves restricted by retention issues and basic analytic features with Amazon CloudWatch logs for troubleshooting use cases.