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How Do You Monitor Dynamic Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Architectures?

david.arrowsmith • Feb 15, 2024 Comprehensive visibility across all your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments plays an important part in maintaining the availability, and performance of applications hosted in AWS. Leveraging Interlink Software’s AIOps and Business Service Observability Platform, enterprises can greatly enhance their capability to monitor, manage and optimize the health of applications and act swiftly resolving issues before they impact on customer experience.

3 Reasons Why People Are LEAVING Kubernetes BEHIND

It's no secret that Kubernetes is complex, but did you know more people than ever are looking for an opinionated alternative to Kubernetes? Alexander Mattoni, Co-Founder and Head of Engineering at Cycle.io, dives into some of the reasons driving this shift, and why you may want to consider an alternative for your container orchestrator.

70 Facts and Stats on AWS in 2024

Amazon Web Services is one of the most popular services that StatusGator users subscribe to so they can be among the first to learn if AWS or any of its components or regions experience downtime. Previously, we already explored the least reliable AWS Region, and we continue to explore the most popular cloud computing platform. Here are facts on Amazon Web Services as of 2024 split into categories.

AIOps For multi-cloud visibility and cost optimization

Cloud computing offers welcome flexibility and resilience. But multi-cloud computing makes it all too easy to lose track of your cloud estate leading to ballooning expenses and administrative burdens. ignio AIOps puts you back in charge. It includes a vendor-agnostic cloud visibility, automation, and cost optimization capability that offers a single-pane view of your multi-cloud environment. This powerful capability is built using FinOps cloud financial management principles to achieve better visibility and control, as well as lower cloud bills.

Introduction to the Integration Pack for ServiceNow

The Integration Pack provides rich bi-directional integration and automation of ServiceNow using Microsoft System Center Orchestrator. This Integration Pack provides a powerful integration capability for writing Orchestrator runbooks. Using Kelverion smart discovery the Integration Pack interrogates the ServiceNow instance and discovers how it has been configured providing a forms based view of the tables, fields, properties and allowed inputs for mandatory and optional fields.

Comprehensive Metrics in the SaaS Industry: 7 Reasons Why They Matter

Understanding comprehensive metrics in SaaS is crucial for your success in the industry. These numbers are more than just data; they offer insights into customer behavior, product performance, and operational efficiency. By embracing the importance of these metrics, you can drive better decision-making, ensure customer satisfaction, and promote sustainable growth. Let's dive into why these metrics are indispensable to your business strategy.

Heroku Router Path Metrics

We are pleased to announce that we have released a new feature that allows you to collect Heroku Router metrics by path! By default, this option will not be enabled as it will increase your number of total metrics. If no action is taken, you will continue to receive your Router metrics in the default format. This provides a good overview of your application’s total connection times, requests by method/status, etc.

Debugging and Decoding MongoDB with OpenTelemetry

MongoDB’s flexibility and document-oriented nature have always stood out to me as its most compelling features, setting it apart from the strict schema constraints of traditional relational databases. This adaptability is a boon for application development, allowing for more dynamic data interactions that mirror real-world information complexities and freeing table schemas’ constraints.

The Real Cost of Synthetic User Testing with AWS

Every time I share a project using SaaS tools, someone inevitably responds that they could do the same thing on their own home server ‘for free.’ I mention this not because it is annoying, since I would never go on social media at all if annoying responses were allowed to change my behavior, but because I think it points to a basic misconception that still affects DevOps practitioners today: the refusal to accurately estimate the real costs of self-managed solutions.