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How to keep Windows up to date using Nexthink

Windows updates are important for device health, performance, and security patches. Yet no update happens without issues. Sometimes, Windows fails to update on some devices within your ecosystem. When a windows update does not happen, devices miss critical patches and updates, which can ultimately lead to performance issues down the line. Hence, it’s always recommended to perform a windows update in a timely manner.

IoT Sensors: What They Are and How to Use Them

For a very long time, businesses in various industries have been using smart sensors. However, with the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), their significance has increased. Sensors represent the beginning of a data collection chain that, when processed by IoT platforms, generates essential insights for assertive decision-making and even for developing new business ideas. Generally, a smart sensor has three main components: This technology is already used in many countries.

How to migrate existing Grafana dashboards and alerts into Kubernetes Monitoring in Grafana Cloud

Kubernetes Monitoring in Grafana Cloud is already an observability Swiss Army knife: You can monitor your Kubernetes fleet performance, nodes, pod logs, resource utilization, and overall infrastructure health all in one hosted platform that comes with prebuilt Grafana dashboards to visualize all the important telemetry you need. All of this sounds great … but what if you already have Grafana dashboards and alerts that are custom to your fleet and the way you do business?

How to monitor an xDSL Modem using a Prometheus Exporter plugin and Grafana Agent on Grafana Cloud with Grafana OnCall

Furkan Türkal likes to design and implement new tech stacks with a deep focus on distributed and low-level systems. He is interested in contributing to open source projects, communities, and project management, and has a strong interest in the CNCF world! Recently, he has been doing research on Supply Chain Security. Hardware breaks, just like our hearts — and both can be due to complicated situations.

Building Resilience With the Splunk Platform One Use Case at a Time

You know that the Splunk platform is the ultimate tool to help advance your business on the path to resilience. You want to use it to see across hybrid environments, overcome alert fatigue, and get ahead of issues. You could be just starting out in your security journey and want to build an essential security foundation or if you're starting out in observability, you might want to accelerate your troubleshooting. You might be working in retail, telecommunications, or the public sector.

How to Measure Latency: The Need for Speed (or Lack Thereof)

When monitoring network performance and health, latency measurements help you understand how quickly, or slowly, data is traveling across the network. This is why network latency monitoring is important to your overall network performance. In this article, we’re teaching you how to measure network latency using Obkio Network Monitoring.

Monitoring RabbitMQ performance with Datadog

In Part 2 of this series, we’ve seen how RabbitMQ ships with tools for monitoring different aspects of your application: how your queues handle message traffic, how your nodes consume memory, whether your consumers are operational, and so on. While RabbitMQ plugins and built-in tools give you a view of your messaging setup in isolation, RabbitMQ weaves through the very design of your applications.

ScienceLogic Product Tour: Improving Business Outcomes with Service-Centric Monitoring

Digital business services are spread across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. But assuring great service performance is increasingly difficult. Organizations are shifting from device-based monitoring to business service-based monitoring in order to meet the increasing expectations of end users and the business. And now you can see SL1 Business Services in action—without scheduling a live demo or free trial.

Securing Your Network Against Attacks: Prevent, Detect, and Mitigate Cyberthreats

As networks become distributed and virtualized, the points at which they can be made vulnerable, or their threat surface, expands dramatically. Learn best practices for preventing, detecting, and mitigating the impact of cyberthreats. As networks become distributed and virtualized, the points at which they can be made vulnerable, or their threat surface, expands dramatically.