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10 Biggest Mistakes IT Professionals Make And How to Avoid Them

IT spending grew to an impressive $3.8 trillion in 2019. With 2020 giving enterprises a reality check on remote working, the spending on digital transformation is expected to grow even further. It goes without saying that IT is an integral part of any company, big or small. When the stakes are so high, there’s very little room for mistakes. However, we’re all humans and do make mistakes.

Grafana Loki: Open Source Log Aggregation Inspired by Prometheus

Logging solutions are a must-have for any company with software systems. They are necessary to monitor your software solution’s health, prevent issues before they happen, and troubleshoot existing problems. The market has many solutions which all focus on different aspects of the logging problem. These solutions include both open source and proprietary software and tools built into cloud provider platforms, and give a variety of different features to meet your specific needs.

B. Paques & K. Polossat | Combining the Power of InfluxDB & AWS for IoT | InfluxDays EMEA 2021

Data from sensors and systems flows in from a myriad of sources in industrial settings. In this session, learn how to combine the power of InfluxDB with IoT tools and cloud resources from AWS to extract the most value out of your IoT data. We’ll also be sharing some real-world examples of how customers are using these combined solutions to gain a competitive edge.

Easily monitor and alert on your Kubernetes clusters with the new Grafana Cloud integration

Today we’re excited to introduce the Kubernetes integration for Grafana Cloud, our composable observability platform bringing together metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. Grafana Cloud users can now easily monitor and alert on core Kubernetes cluster metrics using the Grafana Agent, our lightweight observability data collector optimized for sending metric, log, and trace data to Grafana Cloud.

SNMPv2 vs. SNMPv3: An SNMP Versions Comparison Table

By 2024 there’ll be an estimated 83 billion connected devices on our networks. All these devices, made by a wide variety of vendors, use different types of software, making everything more complicated for IT staff trying to get network devices working together. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) acts like a magic wand to untangle that ball of yarn with a simple gesture.

Log Management & Managed Open Distro ELK Platform, Logit.io Launch New Teams & Users UI

Log management and managed Open Distro ELK provider Logit.io announced today that they've launched an entirely new redesign of their teams and users pages to improve the user experience for users that wish to add additional members to teams and create new teams easier.

SolarWinds Partners With QBS to Enable Businesses to Address IT Challenges of Today

"Our work with partners like QBS Software will enable us to help organisations adapt to changes, reducing complexity and delivering significant benefits for businesses of all sizes" - Charles Damerell, senior director sales at SolarWinds.

Monitor AWS App Runner with Datadog

Knowing how to deploy and run applications has become a key part of modern app development, meaning that developers need expertise in a number of areas beyond their core application code. Whether it’s container orchestration, networking, scaling, or load balancing, there is a steep learning curve to being able to deploy and run an application at scale.