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How to use text box variables in Grafana dashboards

Mar 20, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Text box variables let users type whatever they want -- great for text filtering and searching! In this video we'll look at how to use text box variables in Grafana dashboards. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
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Aiven

Apache Kafka Tiered Storage in Depth: How Writes and Metadata Flow

Mar 20, 2025 By Stanislav Kozlovski In Aiven
The idea behind KIP-405 is to simply store most of the cluster’s data in another service. As we covered in detail in the last article - it’s a simple-sounding idea that goes a very long way. This other server where the data gets stored is pluggable. KIP-405 was designed in such a way to make Kafka seamlessly extensible to store its data in any kind of external store through a solid interface.
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smikar

2025 OneDrive Licensing Changes

Mar 20, 2025 By Mark In SmiKar Software
Microsoft recently announced significant changes to its OneDrive licensing and storage policies, affecting organizations that heavily rely on cloud storage solutions. Starting January 27, 2025, unlicensed OneDrive accounts—those without assigned user licenses—will be automatically archived after 93 days, rendering them inaccessible unless covered by retention policies or legal holds.
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influxdata

Using Azure Blob Storage for InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise

Mar 20, 2025 By Heather Downing In InfluxData
InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise introduce a powerful new diskless architecture that lets you store your time series data in cloud object storage while running the database engine locally. This approach offers significant advantages: you get the performance of a local database combined with the durability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of cloud storage. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up InfluxDB 3 Core or Enterprise with Azure Blob Storage as your object store.
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opsmatters

A Step-by-Step Guide to Choose an ERP System for Construction

Mar 20, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In today's competitive construction industry, business owners and managers are faced with a ton of challenges, ranging from managing project scope to delivering projects on time and within budget. Effective resource allocation, maintaining control over finances, and improving coordination among teams hold the key to success. A very effective tool that has been helping companies in leveling their processes and minimizing gaps in productivity is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
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sematext

Best Logging Practices: 14 Do's and Don'ts for Better Logging

Mar 19, 2025 By Sematext In Sematext
Ever found yourself drowning in a sea of log data, struggling to make sense of the overwhelming noise? Or perhaps faced a major system breakdown, only to find that your logs didn’t provide the answers you needed, leaving you in the dark? Effective logging is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of software development and operations, highlighting why logging is important – it’s the foundation upon which observability, troubleshooting, and system maintenance are built.
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logicmonitor

Modernizing Data Centers for AI: Bridging Observability, Cost Control, and Intelligent Automation

Mar 19, 2025 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Attend our webinar on April 3 to see our latest innovations live. Register IT Operations are more complex than ever, with modern data centers spanning on-premises, containers, multi-cloud environments, and AI-powered infrastructure. The rapid expansion of data sources has created an overwhelming volume of information, making manual monitoring across multiple tools impractical. Visibility gaps slow down troubleshooting and delay critical decisions, impacting business performance.
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Optimizing Script Placement for Web Performance

Mar 19, 2025 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
Master the art of loading JavaScript efficiently in this essential Concepts of Web Performance tutorial with Todd Gardner from Request Metrics. Perfect for entry-level web developers struggling with slow websites, this video breaks down the critical differences between standard blocking scripts, async, and defer attributes that dramatically impact your site's performance. Learn when and why to use each loading technique, understand how JavaScript execution blocks HTML parsing and CSS rendering through clear waterfall and flame chart visualizations, and discover why defer is usually your best option for most scenarios.
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