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Monitoring Azure AKS & Azure Linux with VictoriaMetrics

Azure linux is a Linux distribution built for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. It can be used as a base OS when creating node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. Using Azure linux as a base OS for AKS node pools has several benefits, such as lower resources footprint, faster boot times, and better security.

Monitor your Azure OpenAI applications with Datadog LLM Observability

Azure OpenAI Service is Microsoft’s fully managed platform for deploying generative AI services powered by OpenAI. Azure OpenAI Service provides access to models including GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALLE-3, and the Embeddings model series, alongside the enterprise security, governance, and infrastructure capabilities of Azure.

Aiven Achieves the AWS Retail Competency & Hosts AWS Immersion Day

Transforming retail: Aiven and AWS empower businesses with real-time data insights for better customer experiences. We’re excited to announce that Aiven has achieved the prestigious AWS Retail Competency, in the category of Advanced Data Insights. Achieving the AWS Retail Competency recognizes Aiven’s expertise in providing customers with software solutions that empower retailers to gain valuable data insights to drive business success.

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Nerdio

Today I’ll give a brief overview on monitoring and troubleshooting Nerdio, a.NET application, popular with MSPs (Managed Service Providers) and enterprises using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Nerdio is a cloud-based application used by administrators to automate the deployment and management of virtual desktops in Azure.

Beyond Basics: Advanced Azure Advisor Cost Recommendations for Your Business

Discover how to maximize your Azure cost savings by exploring strategies and techniques that go beyond the insights provided by Azure Advisor. Also, learn why managing Azure costs has become a critical challenge for organizations and why native tools like Azure Advisor may not be giving you the full picture. This video unpacks the complexities of cloud cost optimization and explores how data-driven insights are revolutionizing Azure Cost Management.

Ternary Alternatives For FinOps Teams And Cloud Optimization

As of 2024, 89% of organizations are using a multi-cloud strategy. Among the reasons for this shift are avoiding vendor lock-in and achieving scalability and cost-effectiveness. Yet, maximizing the value of investments in multi-cloud environments is a major challenge. That’s where multi-cloud FinOps solutions like Ternary come in — or, as you’ll see in this guide, where the top Ternary alternatives can take the lead.

12 Business Process Improvement Tools to Increase Productivity & Efficiency

No matter how well businesses run, team leads, or project managers are always searching for ways to run business operations faster and more efficiently. Even when projects and management plan effectively, processes can still become stuck, face delays, or data becomes disorganized.

AWS Budgets Alternatives To Help Optimize AWS Cloud Spend

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers several native tools for reporting and cost optimization. Among them is AWS Budgets, a service that enables users to set spending and usage limits on their AWS resources. It also schedules reports with regular updates on actual or forecasted costs, ensuring users are informed of usage. However, AWS Budgets is a budgeting tool and has limitations when it comes to comprehensive AWS cost control.

End-to-end tracking for Azure Data Factory

This video by Michael Stephenson focuses on utilizing Turbo360's Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) data query feature in conjunction with Azure Data Factory. It begins with an introduction to the architecture, highlighting how data factory diagnostic settings can push events to a Log Analytics workspace for tracking purposes.