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Configuring an External Conference Bridge - xMatters Support

The Conference Bridge page is used to configure externally hosted conference bridges for use in your workflows. An external conference bridge is hosted through a third-party provider rather than xMatters. You can use an external bridge to connect to Webex, InterCall, GoToMeeting, or other conference hosting solutions.

The Best ITSM Blogs You Should Be Following

With so much information that’s repurposed, repackaged, and frankly, not worth even a passing glance, it makes sense to be a bit cynical when it comes to blog content. When everybody seems to be doing the same thing, originality and good writing are rare features that should be celebrated. Since we’re content snobs ourselves, we thought we’d share our take on the 10 best ITSM blogs with you.

Advanced Network Traffic Analysis and Enhanced Security in the New, Easier-to-Use-Than-Ever WhatsUp Gold 2022.0

Part of our job here at Progress is to not only look at the challenges our customers are currently facing, but also to look at the technology landscape in general and consider the challenges they’re going to be facing. We don’t have a crystal ball, of course, but there are a plenty of trends that are obvious to even the most casual observer. Security has always been important, but the last year has made it clear exactly how important it is for every organization with a network.

Tigera: Hands-on workshop: Implementing Security and Observability for Containers

Attend this in-depth, hands-on workshop with a Calico expert to design and implement container security, zero-trust workload security, and advanced troubleshooting for your containerized workloads. The 90-minute interactive lab comes with your own provisioned Calico Cloud environment and is designed to provide more complete knowledge on: We have limited the number of participants for this workshop to ensure that each participant can receive adequate attention.

Grafana: Managing privacy in log data with Grafana Loki

Laws for data privacy are complex and rapidly changing. Organizations can struggle to understand their responsibilities, implement the correct privacy strategy, and define which data must be part of it. Log aggregation platforms are considered data stores by regulations such as GDPR or CCPA, and therefore must be included in readiness assessment. During this webinar, we will see how Grafana Loki can help organizations meet these requirements.

Grafana: Scaling your distributed tracing with Grafana Tempo

Distributed tracing is quickly becoming an invaluable part of a modern observability solution by providing a way for developers to understand how requests move through their systems. This ability is increasingly critical in a world where a single request or transaction may touch tens of microservices spread across different containers, environments, and cloud providers.

Grafana: Unified alerting and on-call management in Grafana

The Grafana, Prometheus, and Alertmanager stack is the de facto standard for generating alerts. In this webinar, we'll give you a walkthrough of the Grafana 8 unified alerting system. For users of the old traditional Grafana dashboard alerts, we'll talk about alerting improvements we've made along the way. For users of Prometheus-style alerts and Grafana Cloud alerting, we'll also explore how the new system makes it easier than ever to manage these alerts, all directly within Grafana. Finally, we will introduce Grafana OnCall, an easy-to-use on-call management tool built to help DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams improve their collaboration and ultimately resolve incidents faster - right within Grafana.

Serverless360: Unlock how Azure Functions, Redis Cache, and Cosmos DB are utilized in building a scalable solution

We see that organizations start using Functions in Azure to adjust to challenges, pursue new business opportunities, and accelerate their digital capabilities. But how scalable are these solutions? Join us in our upcoming session with Tomasso Groenendijk, Solution Architect at Motion10 to deliver the next gen of cloud-native solutions in Azure with Functions in.NET Core 6.0 and how to scale them with blazing-fast queries in Redis Cache and Cosmos DB.

Cookdown: Coffee Break: Azure Stack HCI Management Pack Deep Dive with Microsoft

Join Bhavna Appayya, Product Manager in Microsoft's System Center team, and Bruce Cullen, Director of Products at Cookdown, for a deep dive into the latest Management Pack from the SCOM Product Group - the Azure Stack HCI MP. Allowing you to run your production workloads anywhere on hybrid hyperconverged infrastructure, Azure Stack HCI is a useful tool for broadening your monitoring from conventional infrastructure out into the cloud.