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5 Simple Steps to Reduce Your AWS S3 Bill

Understanding your AWS S3 billing is crucial to effectively manage and reduce your costs. Charges in AWS S3 are primarily based on three factors: the amount of data you store, the number of requests you make, and data transfer fees. Storage costs are calculated per gigabyte (GB) stored, which are tiered depending on the total size of your data. Requests costs are incurred with each put, get, or list operation on your objects, with prices varying based on the type of request.

Application Observability and Beyla Demo | ObservabilityCON 2023

In cloud native environments, finding and resolving issues across services and between application and infrastructure dependencies can be challenging. In this recording, we provide demos on Grafana Cloud’s latest capabilities for correlating application and infrastructure observability: Application Observability and Beyla — both generally available. You will hear how Grafana unifies and contextualizes service relationships and application and infrastructure dependencies to help you resolve problems faster.

Traditional Network Monitoring vs. AIOps Network Monitoring: A Comparative Analysis

The digital shift has particularly influenced the world of network management, where traditional monitoring is gradually giving way to AI operations (AIOps) solutions. It illustrates a clear shift towards automated and predictive IT operations management. While traditional systems have their place, particularly in smaller or less complex environments, AIOps represents the future of network monitoring, offering the ability to anticipate and prevent issues.

User-centered observability: load testing, real user monitoring & synthetics | ObservabilityCON 2023

Understanding your end users’ experience with your applications and services is critical, and there are a variety of tools to help. But there are also a number of different use cases: During development or in production? Simulate user behavior or monitor real user behavior? What should you use and when? This recorded session explores when and how to apply load testing, synthetic monitoring, and real user monitoring to gain insights into the end user experience of your critical applications.

Active vs. Passive Monitoring: What's The Difference?

Today, it’s perfectly normal for businesses to continuously monitor software applications and IT infrastructure to ensure uninterrupted customer service. Active and passive monitoring are the two popular methods enterprises use for infrastructure and application performance monitoring (APM). As the names indicate, these two approaches to monitoring are very different.

Grafana SLO Demo: Prioritize critical resources with SLO-driven IRM | ObservabilityCON 2023

A majority of respondents in our Observability Survey said they were using SLOs or moving in that direction. For good reason: By highlighting the most critical error budget burndown, service level objectives (SLOs) can help you prioritize performance issues based on business impact. In this recording, Josh Abreu Mesa and Reem Tariq walk through how Grafana Cloud’s integrated SLO and Incident Response Management (IRM) capabilities can help you identify the most important issues and resolve them quickly.

What is Bandwidth Monitoring: Benefits, Efficiency and Best Practices

Bandwidth Monitoring is a vital function essential for the smooth flow of data and business success in the digital landscape. Many businesses, individuals, and data centers use networks to share information or services with each other. However, at times customers may experience poor results from unreliable connections, but these problems could also be signs of more serious network problems.

How Pipedrive switched its observability stack to OpenTelemetry & LGTM | ObservabilityCON 2023

The cloud-based CRM company Pipedrive has been relentlessly modernising its observability stack, first adopting Grafana visualisation and Grafana Mimir for Prometheus metrics, then recently completed a migration of its distributed tracing from a third-party SaaS provider to OpenTelemetry and Grafana Tempo, and its logging stack from Graylog to Grafana Loki. Along the way, the team developed its own in-house library to include OpenTelemetry in its roughly 750 microservices.

Manage metrics & logging costs with Grafana Cloud + Log Volume Explorer demo | ObservabilityCON

Are your SRE and platform teams under pressure to ingest fewer metrics and logs in the name of cost savings? Reducing costs does not have to mean reduced observability. This recording walks through the cost management features in Grafana Cloud that allow you to analyze, attribute, monitor, and optimize your metrics and logs usage – and lower costs – without compromising your observability strategy.

The Leading Jaeger Dashboard Examples

Unlocking the full potential of observability and tracing in modern software ecosystems has become imperative for businesses striving to deliver improved reliability and user experience. In this comprehensive roundup, we will dive into the world of Jaeger-incorporated observability and tracing dashboards, offering a curated selection of the best use cases that empower DevOps teams, engineers, and developers to gain unparalleled insights into the inner workings of their applications.