text: The BigPanda Open Integration Hub along with the self-service REST API make it simple to bring together monitoring, change and topology tools so BigPanda can easily ingest alerts, then normalize and enrich them with deep contextual information. The Hub also communicates bi-directionally with collaboration solutions, including ticketing, notifications and chat tools, so IT Ops, NOC, DevOps and SRE teams are always in sync and looking at the same, up-to-date information. This centralized approach makes it easier for teams to rapidly detect, investigate and resolve incidents and outages.
  Out-of-the-box monitoring integrations allow BigPanda to receive alerts from your tools for IT system, log, application, network, time series and synthetic monitoring. Many organizations start with BigPanda by integrating these systems.
  Change integrations allow BigPanda to receive records from your change systems. This allows BigPanda’s Root Cause Changes capability to correlate incident alerts with infrastructure, applications or other changes that caused them.
  Topology integrations ingest topology data from configuration management, cloud and virtualization management, service discovery, APM and CMDB tools to create a full-stack, always up-to-date topology model. This topology data is used for enriching your alerts in BigPanda, inferring the relationships between alerts coming from different infrastructure sources, improving the quality of event correlation, prioritizing incidents and understanding the impact of incidents.
  Collaboration integrations allow you to automate common incident management steps and share incidents from BigPanda with your co-workers using other systems. For example, BigPanda can create tickets with the service desk, notify on-call staff or update running incidents with comments from other teams using different tools.
  Single Sign-On (SSO) integrations can manage your organization’s entire BigPanda membership via a third-party identity provider (IdP). When SSO is configured for an organization, all authentication requests into BigPanda are routed through the IdP of the customer’s choice.
  If a BigPanda integration is not currently available out-of-the box for a particular tool, BigPanda’s self-service REST API allows anyone to build custom integrations for nearly any data source.
  
  Almost three years to the day after announcing the second-generation Emonda, Trek has pulled the curtains back on the latest iteration of it's climbing focussed road bike alongside a host of new carbon wheelsets.
  Disc-specific, available in two frameset levels, more aero than ever and just as stiff as its lightweight predecessor, join us as we take you through everything you need to know about the overhauled 2021 Trek Emonda.
  At a glance, the casual observer would be hard-pressed to spot the differences between the MY18 and MY21 Emonda, however, take a closer look and there have been some considerable changes made across the board. From overhauling the tube profiles, cleaning up the front-end, to debuting an all-new carbon lay-up there's plenty of evolution at play here. While several small tweaks and changes add up to somewhat comprehensive overhaul, the new Emonda is one of the very few big bike companies to forgo dropped seat stay, instead opting to retain it's somewhat classic double-triangle aesthetic.
  While the Emonda isn't stepping on the toes of its aero orientated sibling, the Madone, the latest Emonda is outfitted with a host of aero trickery to aid it in slicing through the wind more efficiently. This includes a generous smattering of truncated-airfoil tube shapes across all wind facing area's of the redesigned frame as well as an uncluttered bar/stem set-up.
  The result? Trek claims that over a flat course at 350 watts after an hour of riding, the new Emonda will be 60 seconds faster than its predecessor. While the vast majority of us would go into cardiac arrest attempting to hold this power for a full hour, even at modest power levels, the claimed aero gains are nothing to be sneezed at and are likely to have a tangible effect out in the real world. Most importantly, this should bring the Emonda in line with its competition such as the 2021 Giant TCR, and the Cannondale SuperSix Evo.
  Aiding in aerodynamic efficiency, Trek has added a host of integration features to the new Emonda. These include tucking the derailleur and brake cables up under the stem, and feeding them through the frame out of the wind, as well as introducing an all-new integrated bar/stem option that's included as standard on top-end SLR models. The integrated cabling isn't limited to top-end models either, all models in the range benefit from the smart internal routing.
  The new bar/stem cockpit, on the other hand, is limited to flagship offerings. While similar-looking to the two-piece unit found on the Madone, the integrated cockpit is a one-piece unit, purely to keep the weight at a minimum.
  Despite altering just about every frame tube on the bike, Trek has managed to eschew modern trends and retain the traditional double triangle aesthetic that purists (and us here at the BE office) are sure to appreciate. Despite the familiar silhouette, Trek has decided to streamline its geometry options moving forward. This means no H1 or H2 fit; rather, all Emonda models feature what Trek dubs H1.5. This means that reach is increased marginally, while headtube lengths are shorter, placing the rider in a slightly more aggressive (lower) position than previous models with the H2 fit. Additionally, Trek is no longer offer women's specific models in the product line-up. Instead, a generous spread of eight sizes ranging from 47cm up to 62cm is the new norm.
  While the original Emonda hit the headlines back in 2014 with its flagship offering tipping the scales at a scant 4.75kg, flagship offerings of the 2021 Emonda are claimed to tip the scales at bang on, or just under the UCI weight limit of 6.8kg. This should come as little surprise to potential buyers, after all, road bikes have been trending heavier in recent years due to the implementation of disc brakes, aerodynamic and stability features. Still, at a claimed weight of 6.72kg (Size 56) the 2021 Emonda is still more or less class-leading when it comes to disc-equipped modern race bikes.
  As for raw frame weights, Trek claims the SLR frameset weighs in at 698grams (Size 56), while the fork is said to add a further 365g. SL level framesets hit the scales at 1,142g (Size 56) with the fork weighing in at 380g. As a result, Trek says the weight difference between SL and SLR builds with a comparable specification is around 500 grams.
  With thanks to an all-new carbon blend Trek calls OCLV 800, the new Emonda SLR is said to be within 5% of the stiffness numbers touted for the MY18 Emonda. This is no mean feat, considering that the frame has more or less been redesigned around subtle aero cues rather than rigidity and feathery weight figures like its predecessor. A bonus of the new carbon blend is that flagship SLR models are said to be 30% more durable as a result of the unique fibres ability to absorb more energy.