The Chief I/O This Week | | Grafana vs PowerBI - Using Grafana for your business metrics | PowerBI is a powerful tool for business intelligence. Its main designation is analysis and visualization of business metrics. It has perfect integration with other Microsoft products like Office 365, Azure, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, etc. | | | | Graphite vs. Grafana | In this article, we will take a look at what Graphite and Grafana are and what they are used for. Some people might mix these two up, but they do completely different jobs when creating a monitoring system. Let’s take a look these tools in more depth. | | | | Look Upstream to Solve your Team's Reliability Issues | In “Upstream” by Dan Health, we explore a variety of different problems ranging from homelessness, to high school graduation rates, to the state of sidewalks in different neighborhoods within the same city. In each of these examples, Dan discusses how upstream thinking decreased downstream work. Upstream thinking is characterized as proactive, collective actions to improve outcomes rather than reactions after an issue has already occurred. | | | | | | |