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Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) represent the power of cloud computing, making the infrastructure of the digital age accessible to every business. With Azure VMs, Microsoft has democratized access to virtualized environments, allowing businesses to focus on building their applications without worrying about the underlying hardware. Azure VMs are a part of Microsoft’s Azure platform, one of the most comprehensive cloud platforms on the market.

We are always trying to lower the barrier to entry when it comes to monitoring and observability and one place we have consistently witnessed some pain from users is around adopting and approaching configuration management tools and practices as your infrastructure grows and becomes more complex. To that end, we have begun recently publishing our own little example ansible project used to maintain and manage the servers used in our public Machine Learning Demo room.

When it comes to monitoring IT infrastructure, the costs you see on the price tag of the tool are often just the tip of the iceberg. Below the waterline, a mass of hidden costs can lurk, which can significantly affect the total cost of ownership. In this blogpost we will cover the analysis of two traditional monitoring domains, Open Source observability and Commercial Centralized observability solutions, focusing the direct and indirect impacts when implementing these solution.

Welcome again to another Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: Solutions for Seamless Integration! This time we selected a problem related to a few tips and tricks I have been writing Message validation inside Logic Apps or JSON schema validation. One of our previous dilemmas addressed this complex topic: Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: How to validate if a JSON property is not an empty string? , of course, describing and addressing a different problem.

Discover the alarming truth: over 80% of users choose to suffer in silence, never reporting the tech issues they encounter. Meanwhile, many companies rely on Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, assuming they have a watchful eye on their systems. However, a critical blind spot persists, particularly when it comes to detecting and alerting you about problems lurking within Microsoft 365’s cloud-based applications.

Information Technology Operations Analytics (ITOA) is an analytics technology that uses datasets generated by IT systems to improve their efficiency and effectiveness as part of the practice known as IT operations management (ITOM). The primary goal of ITOA is to make IT operations more effective, efficient, faster and more proactive through the use of an organization’s own machine data.

Container monitoring refers to the process of monitoring and managing containers deployed within a containerization platform, such as Docker or Kubernetes. As containerization has become increasingly popular in software development and deployment, monitoring and managing containerized environments has become increasingly important.

If you stopped by this article, you're most likely searching for an IT Asset Management (ITAM) solution. And since we know that the research process might be a bit overwhelming, we put together this ITAM software comparison to give you an overview of the best alternatives in the market. Overall, an ITAM tool should provide an easy and comprehensive way to manage your organization's IT assets during their lifecycle, including mainly hardware, software, and cloud-based assets.

Splunk is a popular logging, and in the case of Splunk Cloud also metrics, platform. The BindPlane Agent is capable of integrating with Splunk; both for incoming telemetry to a Splunk Indexer and outgoing telemetry from a Splunk Forwarder. By integrating in this manner, telemetry not natively supported by Splunk can be sent in; and going the other way the telemetry can be sent to other platforms.

This post was written by Joe Cozzupoli. Scroll down to read the author’s bio. As the cybersecurity landscape evolves and threats become more sophisticated, organizations need to stay ahead with the right tools and strategies to protect their valuable data. Two key technologies in this domain are Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).