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We all know how tricky it can be to keep track of costs, especially when your projects spike or with the latest feature that your users love. That's why we've been working on a solution to ensure you never have surprise billing due to on-demand occurrences. Introducing our latest feature to give you both flexibility and control: Overage Budgets.

One of the most common sentiments across the industry, let alone this world, is burnout. Burnout is prevalent, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates it costs the global economy $1 trillion dollars a year. A Gallup poll equated that to $3,400 lost for every $10,000 of salary due to lack of productivity. This problem isn’t ending anytime soon either, with the global Cybersecurity industry alone having a talent shortage of 4 Million people.

I’ve already dropped a hint at this topic in a previous post of mine which reflected the history of Icinga on Windows: And this time I’m going to prove this concept, since both required components have been released by now: Icinga 2.14 and IfW 1.11. Precisely speaking, an existing Icinga master will run checks remotely on Windows, directly via the IfW REST API – without an intermediate agent.

As digital intensity rises in Australian SMEs, technology teams face significant challenges. The complexity of expanding technology architectures, the proliferation of applications, and reliance on diverse cloud environments exponentially increases the demand for IT support and operations.

Whether it’s 3 in the morning and you’re trying to resolve an outage, or you’re testing a new feature and you need to resolve a recurring issue so you can move on to your next task: time is of the essence. Wouldn’t it be great if your observability tooling could direct you to your “aha” moment, without you needing to fumble with writing a query?

Loki, a log aggregation system from Grafana, uses LogQL (Loki Query Language) to query logs. Whether you're just starting or need a quick reference, this cheat sheet covers the essentials. Let's dive into the syntax and functions of LogQL to make your log querying efficient and effective.

There’s no question that achieving end-to-end observability is among the most challenging tasks facing engineering and ops teams today. A quick look back at the 2024 Observability Pulse survey throws this conclusion into stark relief as: Logz.io is committed to making observability smarter, faster, and easier — from data ingestion, to troubleshooting, to managing costs.

As a developer, what should your reaction be when someone says your website is slow to load? As long as you don’t say, “I just let my users deal with it”, you’re already on the right track. Since you’ve chosen to relieve some user suffering, I’m here to help guide you through the process of identifying and fixing those slow loads and performance issues.

Migrating to public clouds initially promised cost savings, but effective management now requires a strategic approach to monitoring traffic. Kentik provides comprehensive visibility across multi-cloud environments, enabling detailed traffic analysis and custom billing reports to optimize cloud spending and make informed decisions.