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Over the last few months, a common and recurring theme in our conversations with users has been about managing observability costs, which is increasing at a rate faster than the footprint of the applications and infrastructure being monitored. As enterprises lean into cloud native architectures and the popularity of Prometheus continues to grow, it is not surprising that metrics cardinality (a cartesian combination of metrics and labels) also grows.

According to the Python Developers Survey 2021 Results, the majority of developers don’t actively use frontend tools. This means if you wanted to create interfaces to display machine learning models and other systems you’ve built, you most likely need the assistance of another developer.

If you have arrived at this page but need a quick refresher on what Azure Active Directory is and why it is different to Active Directory that you might have installed on-premises, you might like to first read this quick run-down – What is Azure Active Directory.

Microservices are being used every where and for good reasons. They do provide you with many benefits especially improved focus and cutting the time to market. Microservices do bring complexities too. Monitoring microservices is complex because of simply the number of them. Monitoring a user transaction requires monitoring many microservices. Correlating the data from them to identify the root cause manually is a nightmare especially in a complex environment with 100s or 1000s of microservices.

I am thrilled to announce that ScienceLogic posted its best quarterly sales bookings in our company’s history! Amid warnings from the broader tech industry slowdown, ScienceLogic proved once again to be an outlier, as current macro trends continue to drive strong demand for IT transformation.

Uptime is the time period when your website and all of its contents are fully functional and accessible. It is expressed as a percentage, thus if your web is up 99% of the time, you can expect more than 7 hours of downtime every month. Downtime, as the name suggests, is when all or a portion of your service is unavailable. Disruptions result and potential customers are lost. Uptime monitors are useful for correctly logging, assessing, and informing on each downtime.

The real beauty of this modern, cloud-fueled, DevOps-driven world that we are living in is that it’s so highly composable. In so many ways, we’ve been freed from the limitations and structures of the previous annals of software and technology history to build things the way that we want to, and however we choose to do so.