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New in Grafana Cloud: Key improvements to the command palette and navigation experience

A new navigation experience will be rolled out in Grafana Cloud this month, with improvements designed to make Grafana more seamless to use. Along with updates in Grafana’s search and navigation, there is a new enhanced command palette that helps streamline workflows and allows you to move through the platform without even taking your hands off the keyboard.

Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: #24 Configure correctly your Retry Policies

Today I will speak about another important Best practice, Tips, and Tricks that you must consider while designing your business processes (Logic Apps): Retry Policies. And how you should be aware of and configure it properly.

CloudSpend mobile application: Manage your cloud costs anywhere and everywhere

ManageEngine CloudSpend is a cloud cost management tool that helps you reduce overhead cloud costs using actionable insights. The CloudSpend mobile application enables users to perform actions on the go for their cloud services from their mobile devices. CloudSpend supports AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud services and is planning to launch GCP in the future.

7 Best Dropbox Alternatives for Personal Use in 2023

One of the first cloud storage services around, the name Dropbox is synonymous with “uploading data to the cloud." Though Dropbox is a fine cloud service, its services tend to land on the expensive side. With features like enhanced collaboration features and a mature, clean layout, it's easy to see why so many people originally gravitated to Dropbox.

90 things about Azure Storage you may not know

Azure Storage is a cloud-based storage solution that provides secure, scalable, and highly available storage for your data. It is a crucial component of Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, providing various storage services, including Blob Storage, File Storage, Queue Storage, Table Storage, and Archive Storage. In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into Azure Storage and discuss 90 things you may not know about it.

Easily Monitor Google Cloud with Sysdig's Managed Prometheus

Google Cloud provides its own set of metrics for monitoring applications, services, and instances. There are a huge number of metrics – more than 1,500 different ones just for GCP monitoring! While this is great, dealing with such a number can also be overwhelming. Filtering, pulling, exploring, and storing the metrics that you really need can be an enormously time-consuming task, and a big challenge.

A Guide to Using Rancher for Multicloud Deployments

Rancher is a Kubernetes management platform that creates a consistent environment for multicloud container operation. It solves several of the challenges around multicloud Kubernetes deployments, such as poor visibility into where workloads are running and the lack of centralized authentication and access control. Multicloud improves resiliency by letting you distribute applications across providers.

The Importance of Azure Distributed Tracing in Integration Services

Distributed Tracing, combined with end-to-end monitoring, lets organizations keep track of their business transactions and receive alerts when anomalies happen. End-to-end monitoring benefits business users and functional administrators more than developers and technical administrators. Nowadays, for developing integration solutions, microservice architectures are becoming the norm. A solution based on such an architecture relies on different services that shape a specific solution together.