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Grafana: Managing privacy in log data with Grafana Loki

Laws for data privacy are complex and rapidly changing. Organizations can struggle to understand their responsibilities, implement the correct privacy strategy, and define which data must be part of it. Log aggregation platforms are considered data stores by regulations such as GDPR or CCPA, and therefore must be included in readiness assessment. During this webinar, we will see how Grafana Loki can help organizations meet these requirements.

Grafana: Scaling your distributed tracing with Grafana Tempo

Distributed tracing is quickly becoming an invaluable part of a modern observability solution by providing a way for developers to understand how requests move through their systems. This ability is increasingly critical in a world where a single request or transaction may touch tens of microservices spread across different containers, environments, and cloud providers.

Grafana: Unified alerting and on-call management in Grafana

The Grafana, Prometheus, and Alertmanager stack is the de facto standard for generating alerts. In this webinar, we'll give you a walkthrough of the Grafana 8 unified alerting system. For users of the old traditional Grafana dashboard alerts, we'll talk about alerting improvements we've made along the way. For users of Prometheus-style alerts and Grafana Cloud alerting, we'll also explore how the new system makes it easier than ever to manage these alerts, all directly within Grafana. Finally, we will introduce Grafana OnCall, an easy-to-use on-call management tool built to help DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams improve their collaboration and ultimately resolve incidents faster - right within Grafana.

Serverless360: Unlock how Azure Functions, Redis Cache, and Cosmos DB are utilized in building a scalable solution

We see that organizations start using Functions in Azure to adjust to challenges, pursue new business opportunities, and accelerate their digital capabilities. But how scalable are these solutions? Join us in our upcoming session with Tomasso Groenendijk, Solution Architect at Motion10 to deliver the next gen of cloud-native solutions in Azure with Functions in.NET Core 6.0 and how to scale them with blazing-fast queries in Redis Cache and Cosmos DB.

Cookdown: Coffee Break: Azure Stack HCI Management Pack Deep Dive with Microsoft

Join Bhavna Appayya, Product Manager in Microsoft's System Center team, and Bruce Cullen, Director of Products at Cookdown, for a deep dive into the latest Management Pack from the SCOM Product Group - the Azure Stack HCI MP. Allowing you to run your production workloads anywhere on hybrid hyperconverged infrastructure, Azure Stack HCI is a useful tool for broadening your monitoring from conventional infrastructure out into the cloud.

A practical approach to Active Directory Domain Services, Part 1: A beginner's guide to Active Directory

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is the traditional, on-premises domain service offered by Microsoft. It is the core component and a server role in Active Directory (AD), the specialized, proprietary directory service in Windows operating system environments. Consider an enterprise or a complex business set up with many connected network resources. In order to ensure the effective management of these resources, IT administrators use AD and its components, including AD DS.

Returning to the Office? Learn Best Practices to Support ITOps

Whether you accept it or not, the return to the office is happening. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup have asked their employees to resume operations on-site. Overall, the number of Covid cases in the US has steadily declined. And many states are now lifting their mask mandates. So sooner or later, more businesses will follow a similar suit, including yours.

How To Create An Environment For Success During Digital Transformation

Back in 2011, the phrase “digital transformation” was in vogue in tech-based opinion pieces as a passing phenomenon and a response to the changing times. Back then, Capgemini (along with Massachusetts Institute for Technology Center for Digital Business) defined it as “the use of technology to radically improve performance or the reach of businesses.” More than a decade later, the expression has far more resonance.

Real-time distributed tracing for .NET Lambda functions

In 2020 we released distributed tracing for AWS Lambda functions written in Python, Node.js, and Ruby, providing you with health and performance insights across your serverless applications. Since then, we’ve expanded our support to additional Lambda runtimes such as Java and Go, and are pleased to announce that real-time distributed tracing is now also available for.NET Lambda functions.

A Beginner's Guide to Integrating Threat Intelligence

Many companies are looking to find a source of threat intelligence that can give them better visibility into the risks unique to their technology stack. While some may not be using threat intelligence, others may not be getting the value they could. Choosing and integrating threat intelligence sources into your cybersecurity monitoring is challenging, but you do need to keep some considerations in mind during the process.