Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

As more organizations move to the cloud, the volume of machine generated data has grown exponentially and is increasingly important for many teams. Software engineers and SREs rely on logs to develop new applications and troubleshoot existing apps to meet reliability targets. Security operators depend on logs to find and address threats and meet compliance needs. And well structured logs provide invaluable insight that can fuel business growth.

SCOM isn’t only powerful when it comes to monitoring on-prem infrastructure, but it has also come a long way when it comes to monitoring your Azure resources. Microsoft offers a great Management Pack for monitoring Azure resources which has been through a few iterations and has only become better with each one.

We talk a lot about how website availability affects your business in revenue and brand perception. We throw out statistics, and we give dire warnings, but until you’ve taken the time to do the research, you don’t really know how the numbers affect your business. In this article, we step through the issues associated with downtime, and we show you how to quantify the impact of website downtime on your business’s revenue.

There’s an old proverb; an inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold. In the landscape of ecommerce we hold true to that proverb, and though you can’t purchase uptime outright, you can guard it with website monitoring. Time equals money but the value of convenience should also be considered. When ease of use returns profits, speed and functionality become primary resources. How can website monitoring improve your user experience?