Even before a global pandemic caused many of us — willingly or not — to suddenly start working from home, it had long been on my list to compile a “work from home” guide, crowdsourcing the advice from the folks here at Sensu. As a remote-first company, we have our fair share of pro tips for working from home; we also want to acknowledge that these times are anything but normal.

Starting today, you can receive notifications from AppSignal in your Discord channels. With AppSignal, you get endless insights with just a few minutes of work. We already have a whole list of out-of-the-box integrations besides Slack and Discord. AppSignal was built with developers in mind and that is why it also allows you to customize it and build upon it with your solutions. You can use webhooks as the ultimate free form to get alerted on any URL you want.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the COVID-19 pandemic so far, it’s that existential threats don’t just go away. Not even if you ignore them. (Actually, they get worse if you ignore them.) We’ve all been touched by the events of the past few months and we need a new way forward. Whether it’s climate change or public health, we need to face these threats head-on and solve them.

As far as productivity is concerned, you cannot afford to stay complacent. That is because, without productivity, it is not possible to thrive in this age of stiff competition. Today, you have numerous things to do, perform multitasking to stay ahead of the competition and if you haven’t done so yet, your business will take a backseat.

The coronavirus pandemic is one tough test for business leaders. It disrupted all routines and scrapped most of the business plans for the coming months, or even years. Our lives have changed dramatically and no longer is it business as usual. Businesses have to adapt to the change and they need to do it with agility. While office closures, enforced home working and social distancing are necessary for our health, they challenge business continuity.

As COVID-19 continues to make clear, being adaptable and resilient when the world changes can help a business stay alive. At Elastic, we know from experience that being distributed helps build a strong company that can scale and adapt as new challenges arise. In the spirit of open source and our relationship with the Elastic community, we’ve been offering tips and tricks on our blog and on social media about how to work effectively while remote.