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September 2023

Monitoring Amazon SageMaker with Datadog

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that enables data scientists and engineers to easily build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models. Whether you are integrating a personalized recommendation system into your video streaming application, creating a customer service chatbot, or building a predictive business analytics model, Amazon SageMaker’s robust feature set can simplify your ML workflows.

Create MySQL tasks easily

Databases are a critical component of our systems and their malfunction can affect business productivity. Therefore, we must make sure that they are working correctly. PandoraFMS has a plugin that allows the remote monitoring of MySQL databases through a Discovery task, by means of this task we can obtain information about the performance and status of the database, such as the number of connections, the availability of the database, the number of queries that are being made, buffer status and cache status, among other types of information.

Post-Mortem: Microsoft Teams Monitoring Issue September 2023

At StatusGator, we understand the critical importance of providing reliable monitoring services to our valued customers. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by the recent issue affecting the monitoring of Microsoft Teams, which occurred from September 27, 2023, at 04:56 UTC to September 28, 2023, at 11:11 UTC. We deeply appreciate your patience and understanding as we addressed this incident and share our findings and actions taken to prevent future occurrences.

The importance of testing emergency warning systems

On Oct. 4, 2023, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) plans a nationwide mobile alert test which will send an emergency SMS to all cellphones in the United States. In coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the national test will be administered at approximately 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4. It will consist of two portions that will test Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) and Emergency Alert System (EAS) capabilities.

How Uptime.com and Logz.io Can Streamline Website Monitoring

Maintaining the right combination of tools and integrations is essential in monitoring your online presence. To this end, Logz.io and Uptime.com — both highly-respected services in their own right — can be integrated to provide powerful analytics, uptime metrics monitoring, log management, and real-time incident alerts – all in one dashboard.

The CEO Pocket Guide to Internal Developer Portals

In the current macroeconomic climate, it’s more important than ever for executive teams and CEOs to make the most of their resources. Organizations are expected to continually deliver innovative products and services in a rapidly changing environment, often with reduced engineering budgets. 75% of tech leaders fear displacement from competitors beating them to market, so speed and efficiency are top of mind.

Product Spotlight: Enhancing Incident Resolution with Blameless' Microsoft Teams Integration

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, swiftly responding to incidents is paramount for engineering teams. Downtime is not just costly; it can tarnish your organization's reputation. The pressure felt by engineering operations, DevOps, and SRE leaders to architect and run an effective incident response process is immense. Fortunately, over the last several years, effective engineering organizations have developed a standard toolkit for running a good incident response process.

Are You Struggling to Break Through the Growth Barrier With Your MSP?

The vast majority of MSPs in the world are under $2milion in revenue. Breaking through that barrier is not easy. As part of our business transformation program, we see a large number of MSPs that have been going for more than 10 years but can’t seem to push through to the next level. Often these MSP businesses are stuck in the $800k-$2M turnover range with around five to 15 techs working for them.