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Azure Monitoring Agent: Key Features & Benefits

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses increasingly rely on cloud computing and infrastructure to support their operations. As organizations migrate their workloads to the cloud, robust monitoring and management tools are paramount to ensure optimal performance, security, and efficiency. In response to this demand, Microsoft Azure has introduced the Azure Monitoring Agent (AMA), a powerful and versatile solution designed to enhance the monitoring capabilities of Azure resources.

Top 5 network management trends in 2023

New trends emerge in network management every year, and 2023 is no exception. This year the industry is set to witness a plethora of advancements and breakthroughs that will revolutionize network administration. From the adoption of sophisticated analytics and machine learning to the proliferation of cloud-based solutions and the surging significance of cybersecurity, here are the top network management trends to watch out for in 2023.

Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes

As featured on CMG.org: Software development and testing is ultimately all in preparation for go-live. But what if you could predict how your go-live could go wrong? In this webinar, learn how traffic-based tests and mocks can accurately simulate peak load conditions, ensure performance, and increase your top line revenue.

How to mitigate the challenges of data growth

Over the last decade, I’ve rarely met a data professional whose organization wasn’t experiencing data growth and making more demands of their data. We build and deploy new applications faster than we retire old ones, and new data is accumulating dramatically faster on our existing systems than our ability to decide to delete older information. Additionally, the ever-growing number of users and devices interacting with that data increases the strain on the infrastructure underpinning it.

Managing Kubernetes Log Data at Scale | Civo Navigate NA 2023

In this talk by Matt Miller from Edge Deltas, we delve into the world of managing Kubernetes log data at a significant scale. Matt breaks down different strategies for handling log data, including Kubernetes native tools, persistent storage, open-source log collection, and using centralized log vendors. He explores the benefits and drawbacks of each approach, particularly focusing on the challenges of scalability and cost when dealing with large volumes of data. Matt also shares insights on how to optimize data management using an intelligent edge-first approach.

July 2023 newsletter: Changelog-The Deluxe Edition

🎵 Gotta give the people, give the people what they want! 🎵 You've been asking. And we've been listening. Over the past few weeks, we've been shipping frequently requested features to help you bring your incident management to the next level. It may be the dog days of summer, but let's ignore that, yeah? Just take a look at this recent changelog. Note that this is the biggest one we've ever published.