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I’m happy to share some exciting news! Grafana Labs is taking ownership of the Zabbix plugin, one of the most popular third-party data sources for Grafana over the years. The Zabbix plugin for Grafana allows you to visualize data from the Zabbix monitoring system, offering a quick and powerful way to create dashboards. I personally started the project in 2015, with the goal of bringing a better dashboarding experience to Zabbix users.

Cloudsmith announces expanded support for System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) for user management and enhanced software supply chain security.

Think of a tool that simplifies application monitoring and helps developers and staff trace, collect logs and measure performance metrics. That is what OpenTelemetry Python provides. OpenTelemetry (OTel) Python acts as a guiding light, offering insights into the behaviors and interactions of complex, distributed systems and enabling a deeper understanding of performance bottlenecks and system dependencies. The significance of OTel lies in its pivotal role in modern software development.

Sentry Cron Monitoring alerts you when your scheduled jobs fail and gives you the context you need to fix it - like we do with error and performance issues. Cron Monitoring focuses on serving code-level insights behind missed and failed jobs and relating them to errors already in your issue stream.

One of the most painful parts of incident management is keeping on top of the many things that happen when you’re right in the middle of an incident. From figuring out and communicating what’s happening, to ensuring you learn from previous incidents, and even capturing the right actions – incidents are hard, but they don’t need to be this hard.

MSPs using CloudHealth are in for an abrupt start to 2024. VMware, which acquired CloudHealth, is ending its partner programs. Instead, they’re rolling out the exclusive Partner Program, starting from February 5, 2024. The switch will impact solution providers, resellers, and cloud services partners. With this new selective partner program, MSPs face fresh challenges in meeting the latest standards.

The digital landscape has dramatically transformed since the world’s first website went live at CERN on August 6, 1991. What began as a single webpage has exploded into a sprawling, intricate web of interconnected services and systems. The modern web is mind-bogglingly vast, complex, and, when it works, beautiful in its precision and technological harmony.

In this realm of cloud and SaaS service uptime, StatusGator offers unparalleled monitoring of nearly 3,000 services. This article delves into the alternatives to StatusGator in 2024, but first, let’s understand what sets StatusGator apart. Unlike typical status page aggregators, StatusGator offers advanced status aggregation with unique capabilities. StatusGator collects the status of almost 3,000 services from official, published, status pages to gain as much information as possible.

With a limitless load of questions on IT automation and the industry’s biggest trends, Resolve’s “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” session went about tackling them in an all-new way. We threw out the preparation, we threw out the scripts, and we asked our community to submit the questions that matter most to them and their organizations. Part of our leadership team took the hot seat and provided answers in real time, sans dress rehearsal.

How much of the data you collect is actually getting analyzed? Most organizations are focused on trying not to drown in the seas of data generated daily. A small subset gets analyzed, but the rest usually gets dumped into a bucket or blob storage. “Oh, we’ll get back to it,” thinks every well-intentioned analyst as they watch data streams get sent away, never to be seen again.