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How to visualize data with Azure Monitor

So far, we’ve learnt how to collect data (part 2) and pull it into Azure Log Analytics (part 3), as well as how to actually work with the data using Kusto (part 4). Now it’s time to explore how we can visualize this data, make dashboards, share them with other teams in our organizations and so on. Unfortunately, dashboarding in Azure is not very sophisticated, and neither is it centralized.

10 Price Monitoring Tools for Ecommerce

Dynamic pricing has become the norm in online retailing. The dynamic pricing method is successful in attracting customer’s attention and also increases profitability for online retailers. It requires you to have a large amount of data in hand like competitors’ pricing, details concerning products and customers, and difference between supply and demand.

APIs and API monitoring basics for project managers

If you’re a developer, you know all about APIs. However, if you’re in a non-technical role, you may not have the information you need to make educated decisions about the APIs your company offers and uses. In this article, we will take you through the API basics: what they are, how they work, why they’re important, and what you can do to protect your business’s reliance on API performance and uptime.

Use the Dashboard API to build your own monitoring dashboard

Using dashboards in Cloud Monitoring makes it easy for you to track important system metrics. Creating dashboards by hand in the Monitoring UI can be a time-consuming process, especially if you want to use them in multiple different Monitoring Workspaces. With the recent GA announcement for the Cloud Monitoring dashboards API, you now have a way to programmatically create dashboards.

The OpsRamp Monitor: SRE Salaries, DevOps Teams, Multi-Cloud Survey

Top Weekly Reads in IT I&O The OpsRamp Monitor is OpsRamp’s top weekly review of interesting developments and emerging trends in IT operations. In this issue: It’s been a week. Four U.S. presidential contenders dropped out of the race. Coronavirus got worse. Several major tech conferences have been canceled. And the stock market rollercoaster ride continued. Let’s refresh with some good news: your career.

Chrome 80 and Firefox 72.0.2 updates live on our checkpoints

When a new browser version becomes available, user adoption is fast. As we saw in an earlier post, due to the automatic update/release processes used by providers, most (nearly 100%) users have the latest and greatest within about four weeks of the new browser version’s release. As the browser versions evolve, it is important that your synthetic website monitoring keeps pace with the user-adoption rates.