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Many organizations are adopting centralized logging tools so that they have one place for all of their data. This is generally easier than having separate tools across teams for log storage and analysis. But centralized logging introduces new challenges, like how to segment those logs according to the teams or developers where they are the most relevant. And, how to manage log volume.

Today, Kubernetes is getting more and more important, not only in the world of operations but also in the world of development. Knowledge in Kubernetes is a highly sought after skill. Yet the question remains whether developers should get access to Kubernetes and if they even need to know about Kubernetes at all.

If you have ever had the need to store large amounts of files and data, then Azure’s Blob Storage is made for you. Microsoft’s Azure Cloud provides huge benefits with not only their fantastic services, locations, availability and support, but also in their almost seemingly infinite capacity. Azure Blob Storage is not only scalable, durable and almost always available it also provides flexibility to scale as your business requirements need.

Tags are essential for aggregating and contextualizing monitoring data across your infrastructure; they enable you to monitor your entire system at a high level, drill down to individual services for more comprehensive analysis, and easily correlate data from every application component. Implementing a consistent and effective tag schema for your applications can be challenging, especially as they grow in complexity.

I’m excited to announce an extension to Netdata’s series A funding in the amount of $14.2M, bringing the total amount of funding to $31M. We’re thrilled to share the news; the additional funding will help us continue building the future of health monitoring and performance troubleshooting. In case you missed it, our mission is to redefine infrastructure monitoring. Our unique approach to building the right solution with and for the community is no easy task.

Brief introduction to understanding Kubernetes basics Kubernetes is a broad platform that consists of more than a dozen different tools and components. Among the most important are: If you use Kubernetes to manage containers, this will require a container runtime, which is the software that runs individual containers. Kubernetes supports a number of container runtimes; the most popular are Docker, containerd, and cri-o.