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Cloud unit economics measures the amount an organization spends on cloud services to achieve a discrete business outcome such as a conversion, sign-up, or checkout. Your cloud spending may increase as your applications get more usage and the complexity of your cloud environment grows.

During the development of your program, you might rely on simple println() statements to trace program execution flows and identify issues in your code. But as projects grow in size and complexity, print statements quickly become messy. A better approach to tracing program execution is logging, an approach that provides a consistent and organized way to track your application’s behavior, allowing you to systematically identify and resolve issues.

We’ve made a small update to our status page to help you better track your monitor’s performance. You can now see the uptime percentage for each monitor under the History tab, covering the last days. This gives you an easy way to understand how reliable your monitor has been over the past month, so you can quickly spot any trends or potential issues!

If you’re running critical services or simply relying on ChatGPT for your daily tasks, any downtime can be disruptive. On January 23, 2025, ChatGPT once again experienced an outage, prompting a surge of error reports from around the globe. From “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” to “Bad Gateway” errors, it quickly became clear that something was off with OpenAI’s popular AI service.

Monitoring and observability have become the backbone of reliable software systems. OpenTelemetry, a CNCF project, has gained immense traction as the go-to framework for collecting and exporting telemetry data. But what makes it even more powerful is its Collector—a vendor-agnostic tool that simplifies data processing. Combine that with Docker, and you’ve got a robust, portable, and scalable observability solution.

Ensuring your enterprise network runs smoothly is key to both productivity and security. As businesses rely more on connected devices, applications, and cloud services, network monitoring has become a vital part of IT infrastructure. Enterprise network monitoring tools offer valuable insights into the health, performance, and security of your network. In this blog, we'll explore enterprise network monitoring tools, their benefits, how to choose the right one and highlight 7 popular options.

Google Cloud partnered with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) on a research study to uncover the secrets of successful platform engineering teams.

Big tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to keep their data centers running. With AI driving up energy use worldwide, it makes you wonder—could nuclear energy be the key to tackling the climate crisis caused by AI? Companies like Google and Microsoft have set ambitious sustainability goals by promising to move to 100% renewable energy before 2030. However, generative AI has made their goals difficult by increasing their electricity consumption multifold.

When it comes to infrastructure monitoring, performance, scalability, and efficiency are critical considerations. In this blog post, we revisit two widely adopted open-source monitoring solutions: Netdata and Prometheus. Both tools have introduced notable improvements in their latest versions, emphasizing scalability and enhanced efficiency.