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Grafana Mimir: 3 reasons to run the TSDB for Prometheus on bare metal

Aug 22, 2025 By Wilfried Roset In Grafana

Wilfried Roset is an engineering manager who leads an SRE team and he is a Grafana Champion. Wilfried currently works at OVHcloud where he focuses on prioritizing sustainability, resilience, and industrialization to guarantee customers satisfaction. Whether it’s for efficient resource allocation, flexibility, high availability, or scalability, it makes a lot of sense to run Grafana Mimir on Kubernetes—but it’s not the only way to deploy Mimir.

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Instrument your Azure Container Apps workloads with the new Datadog Agent sidecar

Aug 22, 2025 By Jordan Obey In Datadog

Modern application development is evolving rapidly, with serverless containers and microservices becoming the standard for scalable, resilient architectures. Azure Container Apps is at the forefront of this movement, enabling developers to deploy containerized applications without having to manage infrastructure.

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Identify slowdowns across your entire network with Datadog Network Path

Aug 22, 2025 By Cat Yao In Datadog

As modern infrastructure becomes increasingly distributed across on-premises data centers, multi-cloud environments, ISPs, and remote offices, understanding how traffic flows across your network is critical to delivering reliable performance and great user experiences. But pinpointing the source of network slowdowns remains one of the most persistent challenges for operations, network, and IT teams.

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Debugging Slow PHP Applications with APM Tools

Aug 22, 2025 By Pavithra Parthiban In Atatus

A slow PHP application in production is not just a performance issue, it poses a significant risk to business operations and user satisfaction. Slow page loads frustrate users, increase bounce rates, and directly impact revenue. For developers, the bigger challenge is that these slowdowns often hide deep in the code, database queries, or external dependencies, making them hard to find.

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Alerting Best Practices

Aug 22, 2025 By Roman Khavronenko In VictoriaMetrics

A firing alert is like someone ringing your doorbell - it demands your immediate attention, interrupting whatever else you’re doing. It requires focus and a quick response. But imagine trying to live in an apartment where the doorbell never stops ringing. You could put in earplugs to block the noise, but that only masks the problem - it doesn’t solve it. On the other hand, disconnecting the doorbell entirely isn’t a solution either.

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New privacy controls for your status page

Aug 21, 2025 By Valeria Kurolapova In StatusGator

StatusGator is beloved by teams across the world for its internal team status page that shows the status of all your third party services. We’ve rolled out two new privacy features to give you more control over how your status page is shared and discovered.

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NiCE VMware vSphere Management Pack 6.1 - Coming Soon

Aug 21, 2025 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt

Modern VMware Monitoring. Native to SCOM. Built for Scale. Start Now.

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Atlassian Bitbucket Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM

Aug 21, 2025 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt

As part of a customer project, we developed a custom Bitbucket Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). This tailored solution enables IT operations teams to monitor key performance and health metrics of Bitbucket environments, ensuring planning and bug-tracking platforms remain available and performant. With this Use Case paper, we aim to share our knowledge with the SCOM community, highlighting the possibilities of advanced monitoring on Microsoft SCOM and helping teams improve their day-to-day tasks.

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Your Help Desk Can Be a Powerful Ally in Maintaining HIPAA Compliance

Aug 21, 2025 By Staff Contributor In SolarWinds

Each industry has standards and regulatory compliance concerns. The health care industry arguably has the most well-known, thanks to the Health Insurance and Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its efforts to keep electronic protected health information (ePHI) safe. HIPAA compliance is essential for organizations that store, maintain or transmit ePHI and staying on top of HIPAA regulations can be challenging.

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Announcing Monitor Grouping in UptimeRobot

Aug 21, 2025 By Tomas Koprusak In Uptime Robot

We’re excited to introduce Monitor Grouping, a new way to organize your monitors directly from the UptimeRobot dashboard. This feature makes it easier to keep track of large sets of monitors and quickly see the health of related services at a glance. Monitor Grouping is available on Solo, Team, and Enterprise plans starting today. Downtime happens. Get notified! Join the world's leading uptime monitoring service with 2.1M+ happy users. Register for FREE.

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