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Resources to help your business handle COVID-19

On March 16th, we announced our Customer Care Program, including four no-charge emergency response apps. We’ve already seen tremendous traction with the apps. As of March 25, nearly 1000 organizations have downloaded the apps. In addition, our amazing community has generated many new ideas, resources, tools, and stories. Some are best practices, some are specific to customers of the Now Platform®, and some come from ServiceNow partners who are helping with new apps, services, and strategy.

Elastic: Building charts with Kibana Lens

Kibana Lens provides a new, simple, and intuitive way for everyone to visualize their Elasticsearch data. In this webinar we'll demonstrate how to connect to data and rapidly build charts using Lens's drag-and-drop interface. This walkthrough is perfect for users who are brand new to Kibana, as well as more experienced Kibana data analysts who are interested in sharpening their visualization skills.

Elastic Observability Engineer training preview: Structuring data

Properly parsing and structuring your data is an important first step in building an efficient and effective observability solution using the Elastic Stack. Effectively indexing and structuring data into Elasticsearch is critical for establishing efficient search criteria and effective results. Logstash filters and ingest pipelines make processing unstructured data easier by providing a set of common processors to efficiently parse, transform, and index that data into the desired structure.

Elastic: Introduction to logging and observability with the ELK Stack

In this webinar we'll help you plot a course for your observability journey. The Elastic (ELK) Stack is used across a variety of observability use cases. We'll go over the basics and show you how to get started using Elastic for your logs, metrics, and application trace data. Join us to see how these three pillars of observability can help you get to the bottom of issues faster.

Top 10 Website Performance Metrics Every Developer Should Measure

There are 1.3 billion websites out there in the great unknown and it’s hard not to think about what makes them different from one another. Why do users flock to one website and ignore the other completely? One major differentiator is, of course, content. I’m not going to dwell on what type of content is better. Another reason why users stick to one website over another is the user experience. Today we’ll be looking at a third major differentiator: Website Performance.

Getting Started with Longhorn Distributed Block Storage and Cloud-Native Distributed SQL

Longhorn is cloud-native distributed block storage for Kubernetes that is easy to deploy and upgrade, 100 percent open source and persistent. Longhorn’s built-in incremental snapshot and backup features keep volume data safe, while its intuitive UI makes scheduling backups of persistent volumes easy to manage. Using Longhorn, you get maximum granularity and control, and can easily create a disaster recovery volume in another Kubernetes cluster and fail over to it in the event of an emergency.

Introducing our free Secure Remote Access Toolkit for IT teams

The global corporate landscape is on the brink of a complete premises lockdown in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Service disruption is inevitable, and enterprises’ business continuity plans are being put to the test. Despite this challenge, it’s heartening to see companies across nations take quick steps to ensure the health and safety of their employees during these trying times.

Building Request Metrics

We’ve been working on something big. We’re building Request Metrics, a new service for web performance monitoring. TrackJS is a fantastic tool to understand web page errors, but what if your pages aren’t broken, just slow? What if the checkout page takes 10 seconds to load? What if that user API is slowing down from your recent database change? What pages have the worst user experience? Request Metrics will tell you that.