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Do you need an OpenTelemetry Collector?

When you use OpenTelemetry SDKs to collect logs, metrics, and traces from infrastructure or an application, you’ll find many references to people using Grafana Agent and OpenTelemetry Collector. They start with an application or infrastructure that sends telemetry, and that data is sent to a collector, which then sends it to a backend like Grafana that may perform many functions, including visualization.

Anodot vs. CloudZero: Who's the Optimal Platform for FinOps in the Cloud?

Our solution (Anodot) and CloudZero are popular choices regarding third-party solutions for businesses managing cloud costs, adapting a FinOps approach to make their cloud operations more efficient. That’s why a platform that can effectively support a FinOps model has become necessary for optimizing cloud functionality. Let’s analyze and dive deeper into who offers the best solutions, technology, and support to take your FinOps culture in the cloud to the next level.

Promoting & Protecting the Patient Experience: How HBL ICT Put People at the Center of their IT Strategy

Patient care is the core of the mission for the HBLICT team. Serving more than 1.2 million adults and children in Hertfordshire, West Essex, Bedfordshire and East England, they provide a range of community health services and hold the highest standards for their care. Achieving this high quality of care requires a dedication to patient experience – and a dedication to the experience that their clinical staff have with technology.

Building scalable OSS observability with Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope | ObservabilityCON 2023

In this video, we cover the latest and greatest news about the scalability and performance of the open source telemetry backends that make up the Grafana LGTM Stack: Grafana Mimir for Prometheus metrics, Grafana Loki for logs, and Grafana Tempo for traces.

Multi-Cluster Observability Part 1: Building A Foundation

In the world of modern Kubernetes, things have come a long way from the days of a single cluster handling one app. Now, it's common to see setups that span multiple clusters across different clouds. Initially, managing those clusters was a complicated operation with many moving parts. Using tools such as SUSE Rancher, RedHat OpenShift or AWS EKS, made managing multiple clusters somewhat easier.

Are your Holiday experience SLOs in place?

If your digital service relies on holiday traffic, now is the time to check your Service Level Objectives (SLOs). SLOs are the performance objectives you set for your service to meet its Service Level Agreements. Even if they’re internal and not guaranteed to customers, SLOs can be very helpful in measuring the quality of service you’re providing.

Make the leap to Exchange Online with seamless migration

As businesses make their transition to the cloud, administrators find themselves with the task of migrating their on-premises Exchange environments to Exchange Online. This migration journey includes multiple challenges, like preserving data integrity, addressing security concerns, ensuring minimal downtime, and delivering seamless user experiences.

Network Overhead, Latency with Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) has become an area of focus for Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) vendors. As businesses adopt SASE or security-as-a-service technology for compliance and security, they must consider the overall employee digital experience. SASE architectures add network overhead and impact performance, response times, and latency. In this article, we will delve into.

Exoprise Digital Workplace Insight 2023

In the constantly shifting sands of the IT landscape, keeping pace with the rapid technological advancements and fluctuating economic conditions is a challenge that IT professionals face daily. The Exoprise Digital Workplace Insight 2023 Survey provides a crucial barometer for these changes, offering a comprehensive view of the industry through the lens of those who navigate its complexities every day.