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In the last few posts, Sameer has walked you through various aspects of Azure Monitor Logs and I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s a very powerful tool when it comes to gathering and analyzing data from your Azure resources and beyond. In this post and the next, I’m jumping in for Sameer to talk about Application Insights, which is a different beast altogether.

Logz.io is excited to announce the 2020 Cloud Observability Webinar Series focused on DevOps, Open Source, and Observability! It’s certainly harder to attend interesting events in person these days. However, learning the same content you would at meetups and conferences for delivery of more reliable, performant, and secure services shouldn’t have to be. This series will offer a webinar every Wednesday until the end of June.

Unit tests and integration tests are vitally important, but sometimes even those aren’t sufficient to ensure that critical services in your application will function smoothly in production. In those cases, adding a staging step to our CI/CD process allows us to test a feature with real data in a less supervised environment. For example, here at Lumigo we decided to use it for our Node.js tracer.

So your organization has decided to move to the cloud. Smart move! Many companies today are either making the move to the cloud or have already made it. According to RightScale’s 2019 State of the Cloud Survey, 94% of IT professionals say their companies use the cloud. Over 90% is public cloud. Gartner predicts that public cloud revenue will increase by 17% in 2020. The biggest percentage increase is expected with IaaS. So, you’re clearly not alone.

Let’s start with a simple picture and a question. You are involved in the day-to-day running of a complex and hybrid cloud of IT systems and applications. These systems, technologies, applications, processes and other platforms perform a number of critical business functions.

Stackery is pleased to announce its addition of support for the new AWS HTTP APIs service which is being introduced today alongside the existing API Gateway tooling. Our addition of such support, in parallel with the GA announcement of HTTP APIs, is an example of how we partner with AWS to accelerate serverless application development and delivery for customers.

This blog will brief on the distinction between Azure Service Bus Topics and Azure Event Grid. First let us see a short introduction of what these Azure services are, before getting deeper into their distinctions. It is important to note the difference between services that deliver an event and services that deliver a message. Service Bus topics handles messages whereas Azure Event Grid handles events.

As you read this, API Gateway HTTP API is now Generally Available. This is an important milestone, and kudos to the AWS API Gateway team for turning this around so quickly. As part of the GA announcement, they also introduced a number of features, including...

As more and more businesses move their servers to the cloud, it makes it more difficult to monitor the status of networks and other such events typically tracked and monitored in traditional in-house server environments. In recent years, companies have turned to a wide array of hybrid multi-cloud monitoring tools.