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Microsoft Teams is one of the most widely used collaboration tools today. Entire enterprises rely on MS Teams for cross-functional communication, project management, and productivity. If Teams has issues, entire projects can get derailed, and business objectives could be at risk. This places pressure on IT teams to proactively measure and manage the performance of MS Teams, to ensure issues don’t prohibit employee productivity.

In today's fast-paced business environment, reliable and efficient network connectivity is crucial to the success of any organization. Slow or inconsistent connections can disrupt operations, cause delays, and negatively impact productivity. One of the key factors that can affect the performance of your network is latency, or the delay between the sending and receiving of data.

Are you tired of feeling like you're in the dark when it comes to your network? Do you want to know what your data is up to when you're not looking? Well, put on your spy gear, because we're about to show you how to spy on your network with AWS Network Monitoring! Forget about traditional monitoring methods that leave you feeling overwhelmed and under-informed.

When your organization has started to adopt Azure, the continuously increasing number of Azure resources throughout all your Development, Test, and Production subscriptions make it hard to keep on top of the health of all those resources. So, it is important to have proactive Azure resource monitoring to know when something unexpected happens.

It has been a veeeeery long time since we discussed a technical concept from an ingenious allegory. Many people send us emails asking us why, and we have to admit that… it’s true, everything is quite more fun with fantastic allegories. So be it then! At the request of our fans. Let’s talk today about ITSM and Monitoring Support through an invented event from which we can then draw a technical lesson.

Datadog is a powerful observability platform. However, unlocking it’s full potential while managing costs necessitates more than just utilizing its platform, no matter how powerful it may be. It requires a strategic approach to data management. Enter telemetry pipelines, a key to elevating your Datadog experience. Telemetry pipelines offer a toolkit to achieve the essential steps for maximizing the value of your observability investment. The Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline is a great example of such.

Microsoft Teams call quality issues can stem from a lot of places. People often jump to blame Microsoft when they’re having a call or video breakup. But, the reality is that while this does happen, more often than not it’s an external factor to the Microsoft service itself. To give you some insight into where your Teams problems come from we put together this easy primer on the five most common sources of Teams call quality issues.

Microsoft Teams has become a popular platform for remote communication and collaboration, especially since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. As more and more businesses rely on Microsoft Teams to communicate and work together, it’s crucial to ensure that the platform is performing optimally and to measure and improve Microsoft Teams performance. Fortunately, there are free tools available to help you monitor the performance of Microsoft Teams.

Prometheus is an open source and free to use metrics collection and storage solution. It's used extensively in the industry for monitoring many different technologies. In this article I will show you how to get Prometheus up and running as a binary, a container running in Docker, and inside Kubernetes.