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Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Microsoft Azure in just minutes

Developers and SREs choose Microsoft Azure to run their applications because it is a trustworthy world-class cloud platform. It has also proven itself over the years as an extremely powerful and reliable infrastructure for hosting business-critical applications. Elastic Observability offers over 25 out-of-the-box integrations for Microsoft Azure services with more on the way. A full list of Azure integrations can be found in our online documentation.

21+ DevOps Monitoring Tools Vital To Success

DevOps emphasizes continuous improvement, rapid delivery, and cost optimization. It does this by recommending several engineering best practices you can implement in your IT environments. DevOps also emphasizes automation to improve efficiency and engineering velocity in software delivery. In this guide, we will cover the importance of DevOps monitoring. This will include what to monitor and a list of some of the best monitoring tools for DevOps teams.

How To Maximize Free Cloud Resources Without Overstepping

Navigating the cloud computing landscape often involves a delicate balancing act between leveraging available resources and managing costs. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leader in cloud services, offers an enticing proposition through its Free Tier, especially with services like Amazon EC2 and RDS. These offerings present a unique opportunity for IT professionals to push the boundaries of cloud computing, but they also pose the challenges of staying within budgetary constraints.

Forward logs from Google Cloud Platform to Site24x7 with Dataflow

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enables organizations to create and scale applications. Activities in applications, whether on Compute Engine or other services from virtual machines to serverless environments on GCP, produce a significant amount of logs. Logs play a crucial role in helping you achieve effective observability and troubleshooting. But the logs may experience irregular surges in data ingestion during major system events, posing challenges for network overhead.

How to Optimize Your AWS Costs in 2024: Top Vendors, Tips, and More

Sigh...in the blink of an eye, AWS now has hundreds of thousands of SKUs, 180 different types of services, 17 different ways to launch a container, and has dozens upon dozens of regions and availability zones. No wonder AWS billing has become so complex to understand. Is there a fix?

The Top 25 Vendor Selection Software and Tools in 2024

I’m LV, co-founder and CEO of Taloflow, a technology selection platform built for the AI productivity era. I’ve spent more than a year interviewing over 200 enterprise IT procurement professionals and IT and Engineering decision-makers and have found that the space of software selection and procurement is undergoing a sea change in expectations. Based on the interviews, I’ve determined nine steps in the software procurement lifecycle, but these are more fluid than ever.

Ingest, search, aggregate, view, and analyse data with Aiven for OpenSearch on GCP

Ever considered bringing OpenSearch’s powerful capabilities to your GCP data infrastructure, but not sure where to start? Tune in to our webinar to hear top tips from Aiven’s technical experts and OpenSearch gurus. Expect to learn: AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

The Cloudification of Telcos and the Evolution of the Telecom Ecosystem

In the rapidly evolving telecom sector, the concept of “cloudification” is not just a trend but a transformative shift, reshaping how services are delivered and managed. This change is underpinned by modern software architectures featuring modularity, microservices, and cloud-native designs. As we embrace this new era, marked by the rise of “netcos” and “servcos,” we must also navigate the complexities it brings.