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Your First Shipa Webhook - Microsoft Teams Integration

One more “ops” phoneme like DevOps is ChatOps; or conversation-based development/operations. ChatOps has been growing in popularity as communication platforms such as Slack is ingrained in our day-to-day engineering lives. A team lead once told me “if it didn’t happen in Slack, it didn’t happen” showing the emphasis of communication platforms as a system of record.

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips - Visualizing Uptime with Flux deadman() Function in InfluxDB Dashboards

A common DevOps use case involves alerting when hosts stop reporting metrics, aka a deadman alert. This can be done using the monitor.deadman() Flux function. One can easily create a deadman (or threshold) check in the InfluxDB UI Alerts section or craft a custom task to alert as well. Check out InfluxDB’s Checks and Notifications system post for more details. It’s also possible to use the monitor.deadman() function directly in a dashboard cell.

Superfast Troubleshooting of Network User Performance Issues

In our first edition of our Work From Anywhere series, we look at the value of troubleshooting end-user hardware and application issues. Exploring the granular detail that the solution provides, we look at how understanding information around the end-users hardware can help reduce mean-time-to-resolution and increasing productivity of service/support desk teams.