Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Converting multiple data formats into one unified format makes software and DevOps monitoring so much easier, as it brings together all types of metrics for a smoother, more consistent analysis. This approach cuts down on the need for separate parsing setups, saving time and reducing complexity when it comes to managing configurations. It’s also a big help for scaling up—your monitoring tools can handle growing volumes of data without constant adjustments.

Microsoft has announced the generally availability of SCOM 2025. This version brings new features and improvements, and ensures a future-proof SCOM platform with support extending for at least the next decade.

Google recently released its 2024 Cloud DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) report, bringing together a decade’s worth of trends, insights, and best practices on what drives high performance in software delivery across industries of all sizes. This year’s findings take a closer look at how DevOps teams can achieve greater resilience and efficiency by adopting AI, improving team well-being, and building powerful internal platforms. ‍

The Prometheus monitoring tool can store its metrics either locally or remotely. You can configure a remote data store using the remote_write configuration. This article describes the various data store options available as well as how to set up a remote store.

Salt Lake City, Utah, 13th November 2024 – Today we’re delighted to announce the GA release of our innovative logging solution - VictoriaLogs. Our easy-to-use, open source log management solution combines a powerful query language for easy log searching with minimal resource requirements. It’s perfect for managing and analyzing large volumes of log data, especially in containerised environments such as Kubernetes.

In the webinar, the experts explained why a log management strategy is crucial if you want to accurately assess the health and compliance of your applications. Topics include: Cloud native technologies have made it harder to understand how systems are behaving. Logs are the answer, but they can be voluminous and complex in any environment. How do you make sense of them?

AWS logs are fundamental for organizations to conduct performance analysis, troubleshooting, security monitoring, and adhere to compliance requirements. But if you’re using more than one AWS service you can quickly realize that your logs are expanding out of control across decentralized locations. Therefore it’s crucial that you can process and analyze all your AWS logs within a single centralized repository.

What are availability and uptime metrics and why should you measure them? In the past, development teams pushed new features, and operations teams handled issues as they arose. However, as more businesses pivot to a DevOps infrastructure, all IT teams work side by side throughout an application’s lifecycle, from coding and testing to deployment and monitoring.

If your gross margin is lower than 60-90%, you have a weaker SaaS margin than you’d want. This margin can turn away investors, limiting the amount of capital you can raise to fund growth. Here’s the deal. It may not be a revenue issue. It may be that you are not monitoring the right SaaS metrics. The result: you are probably spending too much. You are probably also unaware of whether this reflects growth or simply overspending, thus ruining your budget and ROI.