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The Life of the Sysadmin: A Patch Tuesday Story

The System Administrator! AKA the Sysadmin. The keeper of the network, computers – well basically all things technology. The one who is hated for imposing complex passwords and other restrictions, but taken for granted when everything works well. They are the first to be called when “facebuuk.com” reports: “domain does not exist”.

Cloud Cost Optimization: 5 best practices for reducing your cloud bills

Before we jump into cloud cost optimization, let us address the elephant in the room. Businesses are moving to the cloud but are struggling with unpredictable cloud bills. If you are a business owner who has moved to the cloud recently, you need to understand each cloud touchpoint and get a transparent view of your cloud services. When it comes to cloud cost optimization, there are many tools and techniques that organizations can adopt. Most of these can only take you so far.

SCOM integration with OpenAI Chat GPT

We are happy to announce that we have created a SCOM integration with OpenAI Chat GPT. The solution checks for any alert generated in SCOM and then requests the artificial intelligence service to give you possible root causes and fixes to solve the issue. Moreover, it will take into account any other issues the respective degraded component or service is experiencing and consult you accordingly.

Best SRE Practices to Help Developers Troubleshoot Kubernetes

With the adoption of Kubernetes rapidly accelerating, many companies struggle with having the right skills within development teams to troubleshoot incidents quickly. Remediation of issues is of the greatest importance to avoid customer disruption. This webinar will introduce several best practices where SREs can take a leadership role, such as: Watch this webinar on-demand to learn how the SRE role can enable development teams to troubleshoot Kubernetes issues quickly and effectively.

Vantage DX Product Updates

The upcoming release of Vantage DX packs in more usability features to help IT teams quickly get to the root of Teams performance issues. Our recently launched Teams dashboards have been updated and UI improvements now provide quick access to Teams Meeting Room performance data and new Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard (CQD) integration upgrades simplify set up.

How Solutia Consulting Cut a Client's Technical Support Tickets by 50% Using Advanced Synthetic Monitoring from Checkly

Learn how Solutia Consulting relied on Checkly to confidently deploy client software updates Solutia Consulting is an information technology consulting firm based in Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota. Solutia provides assessment and advisory services, dev team staff augmentation, managed IT services, and project-based contract work for a variety of clients, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to mid-sized enterprises and organizations.

Observability vs Monitoring vs Telemetry: Understanding the Key Differences

Observability, monitoring, and telemetry are crucial for maintaining the performance and reliability of modern systems. Their concepts are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct differences that are important to understand. In this blog, we’ll explore each concept in detail, including key characteristics and examples of tools. We’ll also compare observability vs monitoring vs telemetry and discuss when it’s appropriate to use each.