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Reducing Alert Noise: Transformations and Dynamic Thresholds

Monitoring modern infrastructure poses fundamentally new challenges in terms of data volume and velocity. Collecting the metrics emitted by machines is only the first step. To extract value from that data, we need a method of expressing service, team, or business goals against that stream of data.
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Reducing Alert Noise: Static Thresholds, Durations, and Transformations

Monitoring modern infrastructure poses fundamentally new challenges in terms of data volume and velocity. Collecting the metrics emitted by machines is only the first step. To extract value from that data, we need a method of expressing service, team, or business goals against that stream of data.
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Monitor Couchbase with SignalFx

SignalFx is integrated with Couchbase, a distributed NoSQL document store that’s specialized for backing web applications using JSON documents. We’ve created a collectd plugin that connects to Couchbase’s statistics API and collects statistics about each Couchbase cluster, node, and bucket.
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Manage detectors with templates and a new API

Manage detectors with templates and a new API
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Monitor Windows With SignalFx

Monitor Windows with SignalFx. SignalFx is now integrated with Windows. We monitor Windows systems using our open-source PerfCounterReporter tool, which makes it easy to collect metrics. Start by downloading and running the PerfCounterReporter installer.
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Sign Into SignalFx With Google

SignalFx is integrated with Google Sign-In. This adds to our integrations with Bitium, Okta and OneLogin. To get started, enable the Google Sign-In integration on the Integrations page and authorize SignalFx to a Google domain that you manage.
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Writing Actionable Alerts

Writing Actionable Alerts
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Monitoring ActiveMQ In-Depth

Customers love us for our out-of-the-box integrations and built-in dashboards for services like ActiveMQ. Underneath our no-fuss solutions, SignalFx runs the most powerful monitoring service for modern applications.
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Manage SignalFx Alerts with VictorOps

VictorOps is the real-time incident management platform that combines the power of people and data to embolden DevOps pros to handle incidents as they occur. VictorOps does more than just alerting. It provides teams with a virtual environment where they can prepare for, react to and recover from each incident...
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Manage Access to SignalFx With Bitium

SignalFx is now integrated with Bitium for single sign-on, adding to our Okta and OneLogin integrations. Bitium provides teams with the ability to manage access to all of their SaaS applications–email, office productivity, social networks, CRM, collaboration, and more–in one place, without getting in the way of users.
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RabbitMQ Monitoring with SignalFx

Get started with RabbitMQ monitoring in SignalFx, from clusters to hosts to brokers to individual exchanges and queues! We monitor RabbitMQ using collectd and the collectd-rabbitmq plugin we wrote. We supply the plugin for collectd, customizable configuration you can use for the plugin...
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The Technology Vision Behind SignalFx

We believe that monitoring modern applications is inherently an analytics problem. The investment to build a state-of-the-art, homegrown monitoring solution can be quite substantial and our experiences in operating such systems at scale for large scale web companies has enabled us to build a great product...
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Splunk, Developers, and SOA Apps

Splunk, Developers, and SOA Apps