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solarwinds

2021 AWS Outage and How To Prevent Your Websites and Applications From Being Impacted

Dec 13, 2021 By Pingdom In SolarWinds
December 7 started as a typical, but busy, pre-holiday weekday. This included a mix of booming online retail sales ($33.9 billion spent during cyber week), packages flooding delivery services, and high online traffic. But much of that quickly came to a crawl. An outage of the AWS us-east-1 cloud region changed the good fortune for many websites and applications and impacted the lives of consumers across the United States and parts of Europe.
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Let the Orion Platform Do the Heavy Lifting | Using the Orion API for Fun and Profit: Session 2

Dec 13, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Continuing the discussion from the previous THWACK Livecast about letting the Orion® Platform products automate your work, we’ll be stepping away from the web console and start digging into the SolarWinds Orion Application Programming Interface (API). The power of the Orion API is in its flexibility. If you want to unmanage or mute devices to coincide with your change management windows, or do bulk actions on devices, or even add devices to monitoring from nothing more than an IP address, it can be done with the API.
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appsignal

Monitor Scheduler Utilization in Elixir With AppSignal

Dec 13, 2021 By Noemi Lapresta In AppSignal

When it comes to monitoring your Elixir application, it's challenging to make sense of the many metrics and statistics that you can read from the internals of the Erlang virtual machine. In this post, we'll be looking at the scheduler utilization metric in order to understand what it is, why we should monitor it, and how to monitor it.

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grafana

Query and analyze Amazon S3 data with the new Amazon Athena plugin for Grafana

Dec 13, 2021 By Sarah Zinger, Robbie Rolins In Grafana

In collaboration with the AWS team, we have recently released the new Athena data source plugin for Grafana. Athena is an interactive serverless service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena supports a wide variety of data formats including CSV, JSON, ORC, Arvo, and Parquet. Athena also integrates with AWS Glue Data Catalog, which allows you to create tables and query data based on a central metadata store of many AWS services, such as CloudFront, ELB, and more.

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Upcoming Holidays Got You Down? Plan to Start 2022 off Right

Dec 13, 2021 By Martello Technologies In Martello Technologies
With the holidays coming up are you worried about Microsoft 365 and Teams performance while your IT team is off? Martello gives IT teams complete end-to-end visibility of the Microsoft 365 and Teams user experience to rapidly detect and easily resolve problems before they impact the user experience so you can finally take that break you deserve.
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cookdown

Top 5 SCOM issues and how to solve them

Dec 13, 2021 By Charlotte Wyld In Cookdown

Many organizations aspire to a world where everything is in the cloud. But, in reality most IT enterprises still rely on traditional on-prem monitoring technologies. As a market-leading monitoring tool, SCOM is ideally placed for the job; monitoring both on-prem workloads or workloads that link up to the cloud. So, as SCOM is central to most companies’ monitoring, it is essential you understand how to be successful with SCOM!

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