Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Rancher 2.5 introduces a new, improved monitoring integration. It is still based on Prometheus, Grafana and Alertmanager, but much more flexible regarding configuration options and customizations. It also directly ships with much improved dashboards and alerting rules. Unfortunately, due to the necessary internal changes, there is no automatic upgrade path available from the old to the new monitoring. While you can continue to use the old monitoring with 2.5, there are some manual migration steps necessary to get all the benefits from the new monitoring system and keep all the configurations and customizations from the old one.

You might know AIOps as just another buzzword that been getting thrown around almost as much as 'cloud' and 'digital transformation', but do you really know what AIOps is and how it uses AI and machine learning to unlock a whole new realm of possibilities and efficiencies? In this episode of The More You Monitor Lead Sales Engineer, Donde Aponte, walks you through what AIOps and Observability truly means and how this new approach to IT operations can save IT and DevOps teams tons of time and stress by dramatically shortening MTTR and reducing the number outages and slowdowns.

In 2020, Coronavirus forced many companies to rapidly pivot to cloud-based solutions and remote work. Splunk’s Andy Hershey GVP, Cloud Sales & GTM Transformation, and B2B tech influencer and evangelist, Evan Kirstel, sit down to discuss how companies can optimize their cloud strategies in the Data Age. The pair discuss the challenges of the cloud journey, data-driven solutions, security concerns, and how leaders can effectively succeed in this new digital world.

When critical incidents do arise, you need the best, most accurate solution for real-time work. Even if you choose to weather the long implementation and cost, when compared to ITSM tools, PagerDuty can provide response times of over 10 times faster when it matters most.

Want certain information to appear at the top of search results? When you add curations in App Search, users get the promoted documents first, then the most relevant results based on the relevance tuning you defined. In this short video, you’ll learn how to set up curation in Elastic App Search.

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Join us as we discuss how to integrate your orchestration and automation tools into the ServiceNowTM catalog. You will learn how to enable business and IT users to request simple and complex services for delivery in a matter of minutes.

Ever wanted to get a look at SQL Monitor? Chris Kerswell from Redgates Solution Engineering team takes us through the easiest way there is - using the SQL Monitor demo site! In this video, Chris shows us how to access the site and some of the key features available or interesting things to have a closer look at.

How to use Enterprise Alert to automatically create tickets inside of Service Now.

In the latest installment of the ManageEngine Insights' podcast, enterprise analyst John Donegan sits down with Andy Bates, the executive director of the Global Cyber Alliance. An expert in the field of cybersecurity, Bates discusses current IT security trends, attack vectors, crime deterrents, and other emerging issues, such as biometrics and blockchain technologies. Bates also addresses user psychology as it relates to IT security, as well as some of the silver linings of the COVID pandemic.