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InfluxDB Templates: Easily Share Your Monitoring Expertise

If you’re the resident expert in your company on a particular technology, you probably get asked a lot of questions about it: how to set it up, how to maintain it, how to monitor it. While it’s great to be recognized as the expert, all these requests for help can steal time away from your day job. Thankfully, we’ve got something that will help: InfluxDB Templates.

WFH tips: Slack hacks that will make you more productive

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many companies to require employees to work from home. It’s a new normal for many, but at Grafana Labs our team has always recruited and operated with a remote-first culture in mind. To help everyone transition to a home office environment, we launched a new WFH series in which Grafana team members have been sharing their best advice for staying productive at home – yes, even if you have kids around.

All about emojis

In person, you can easily tell someone’s mood based on their body language and how they speak, but that’s much more difficult with text alone. Emojis are a great way to add tone to a piece of text and also help make text-based conversation feel more casual, relaxed, and fun. Thanks to emojis, we can chat with much more real emotion than you might get by being careful about your word choice or by including just the right number of exclamation marks and periods at the end of a sentence.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Remote Workers

History books will one day write about our time. What will they say? Worldwide pandemic caused governments to issue stay-at-home orders in 2020. People were advised to wear masks in public and keep six feet of distance. Rice, toilet paper, and household cleaners were impossible to find. It has been a major adjustment for everyone, to be sure. From the restaurant owners trying not to lose their businesses to the homeschooling parents trying not to lose their minds, we're all facing unique challenges.

How to work from home: 9 tips from the folks at Sensu

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.

[Webinar] Solve process-based problems to transform IT organization

This on-demand webinar covers:

  1. The challenges organizations face in their journey to compliance and how to handle them
  2. How to bring accountability and clarity to your processes
  3. A unique approach to customized risk assessment
  4. Approaching regulations and standards: Case studies of the GDPR and ISO 27001
  5. A framework to help you build a platform for compliance

Official AppSignal Discord Integration is Here

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.

7 ITIL® 4 tips for service professionals by the ITIL 4 co-author | ITIL 4 overview, benefits & more

Presented by Barclay Rae, ITIL 4 co-author and a well-known ITSM consultant, this webinar focuses on the practical application of ITIL 4, using value streams, and the various areas of professionalism that are now included as part of the ITIL 4 portfolio.