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InfluxDB Cloud is on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Here at InfluxData, we’ve been focusing recently on deepening our support for Microsoft Azure. First we turned on InfluxDB Cloud on Azure West Europe, in Amsterdam, back in July. Then we launched InfluxDB Cloud on Azure East US, in Virginia, in September. Today, we’re pleased to announce that InfluxDB Cloud joins InfluxDB Enterprise on Azure Marketplace.

5 big companies that have already experienced website downtime this year

It’s only mid-February and there’s already been a surge of websites that have gone down, and big ones too. I don’t need to tell you how damaging website downtime can be, especially since we’re spending the majority of our time online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We are working online, studying online, banking, shopping, exercising online, the list is endless, and this extra online activity has put added pressure on the websites that help us to perform these tasks.

February 2021 Update: Copy duty slots, password change and 2-way integration with ServiceNow and Checkmk

With our February 2021 update, we have added more features to our account management portal. We’ve now added a copy mode to the duty and shift calendar providing an even better shift and duty scheduling experience. You can now also monitor your personal profile and change your password in the account portal. We have now also added 2-way integration capabilities for ServiceNow and Checkmk.

Alert Escalation in Enterprise Alert

Enterprise Alert® is the leading enterprise-class software for automated, targeted, and traceable alerting. But what does “escalation” mean in this case? In the course of my work, be it with new customers, existing customers or even prospects, I repeatedly find that the term escalation is often defined very differently. Therefore, I would like to clarify in the context of this blog what we mean by escalation.

Maximize IT Investment by Integrating with CloudReady and ServiceNow

Businesses around the world are striving to accelerate digital transformation and increase IT visibility but tool incompatibility and API integration can be obstacles. This white paper shows how Exoprise CloudReady can be easily integrated into tools such as ServiceNow, Splunk, PagerDuty, MoogSoft, Slack, etc., and streamline incident management.

StackState: Optimizing App Performance in the Cloud (In partnership with Network Computing)

Today's hybrid cloud architectures render traditional application performance troubleshooting and monitoring methods obsolete. Compounding matters, the wide-scale use of microservices and containers, and the adoption of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) principles mean constant change making it increasingly harder to pinpoint issues. During this Network Computing webinar, we'll discuss these issues and more.

StackState: Observability for Highly Dynamic Applications and Environments (In partnership with CIO.com)

Modern applications and their configurations are updated continuously due to CI/CD. Modern virtualized, cloud-based and, Kubernetes-based environments all exhibit automated and dynamic behavior which both change configurations and the relationships between services and the components that they depend upon.

NiCE IT Mgmt: The Big SCOM Survey - Results Revealed

In this month's Coffee Break episode, SquaredUp Founder & CEO Richard Benwell will be joined by a panel of SCOM experts to explore and discuss the results of The Big SCOM Survey. What is The Big SCOM Survey? Here at SCOMathon we wanted to find out how the wider SCOM Community use SCOM, the tools & techniques you are applying, and what your future SCOM plans are. And we want to share our findings with you!

The what, why, and how of using network IP scanners in IP-centric IT infrastructures

A simple command-line interface (CLI) ping will give you details about your target IP address. However, you may have to input the ipconfig command, and then the arp-a command to fully discover the status of an IP, and this is just for one IP address. Now imagine doing this for an IP block of 300 IPs, or even 50 IPs, or doing the same task periodically to manage your IP pool of thousands of addresses and their metrics. Seems like an Herculean task for any network admin!