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AWS CloudWatch Alarms - A Startup Guide

While more businesses are moving their apps to the cloud, they must also ensure that cloud-based services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other resources remain available. So, how can you make sure these cloud services aren't turned off? You can accomplish this using a tool like Amazon CloudWatch, which monitors applications. What is AWS CloudWatch will be the subject of this article.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample JIRA Health dashboard

Join SquaredUp's Adam Kinniburgh and Tim Wheeler as they showcase this example Jira Health Status dashboard. Offering a quick view of the state of your next release, alongside the health of the Jira project as a whole, this dashboard uses SquaredUp’s Web API and PowerShell tiles to improve on Jira’s native dashboarding capabilities. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.

Monitoring network security with Aruba Clearpass, Grafana and Graphite

In this article, we will explore why it is imperative to constantly monitor network security metrics, what Aruba Clearpass is, and how it helps us manage network security. Then we will look at what Graphite and Grafana are and how to analyze metrics with their help. Finally, we will learn how MetricFire can make it easier for us to work with Graphite and Grafana.

Datadog acquires Ozcode

At Datadog, we believe that having visibility into production is crucial to building better software, especially as modern environments become more and more complex. Bugs that occur in production are often difficult to reproduce locally, which leaves developers guessing about what went wrong. To solve this problem, teams need the same depth of visibility into their production environments as they do into their local environments.

We've been named a Customers' Choice for the third year in a row!

The market has spoken! ManageEngine has been named a Customers’ Choice in the 2021 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of Customer’: Application Performance Monitoring report for the third time in a row. It’s an honor to be trusted and loved by customers all around the globe.

The Lights Never Go Out For Financial Services

The financial sector is in a constant state of change, and institutions must continually adjust to the evolving needs of their customers and the global marketplace. And with availability requirements like the ones European Banking Authority (EBA) provide—99.5%—financial institutions are driven to remain on the bleeding edge of responsiveness and convenience. Banking outages lead to lost consumer confidence and damaged reputations in a sector where trust is the cornerstone of doing business.

Announcing New Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Capabilities

This year at.conf21, we announced exciting new features in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, our real-time streaming metrics-based monitoring platform. Our innovations help SRE and cloud operations teams detect and resolve performance issues even more quickly and efficiently while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance posture. In this roundup blog, we cover, in detail, all the product features we unveiled at.conf21.

Eight Reasons Enterprise Automation is Vital to Cloud Strategy Success

The cloud and Electric Vehicles (EVs) have a lot in common. Both are modern, fast, and agile. Both are also in great demand. Every street seems to have an EV parked somewhere. It’s the same with the cloud, which is fast becoming the platform of choice to power enterprise applications. Whether it is public, private, or hybrid, the cloud offers flexibility, security, and low total cost of ownership.